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PREFACE 

IN presenting to the public a new collection of familiar 
quotations, a brief explanation of the aim and the 
nature of the work seems to be demanded. 

At the outset, the difficulty is encountered of determining 
the scope of the work, and the classes of readers to which it 
is to appeal. The primary object of a collection of "familiar 
quotations" is to furnish information as to the author of a 
fugitive line or passage, such as sometimes haunts the brain, 
and also the exact locality in that author's works where such 
line or passage may be found. 

But from this restricted field others open, until it is ren- 
dered more and more difficult to determine where the lines 
governing admission or rejection shall be drawn. One seeks 
a well-turned phrase that may embody a wish or a compli- 
ment for a friend; the orator or statesman desires some epi- 
grammatic passage with which he can adroitly illustrate a 
point or make a well-rounded peroration. Instinctively all 
such turn to the book of "familiar quotations," in the hope 
of finding therein the sentiments they desire to express. And 
so the circles widen until little can be considered but the 
feasibility of compiling a good "working" collection of con- 
densed crystallized philosophy and apt descriptions, neces- 
sarily bounded in its scope by the ordinary limitations of 
handiness of reference. 

Any attempt to limit the terms of admission by a test of 
"familiarity" must necessarily fail; as what is familiar to one 
may be unknown to another seeker of the kinds mentioned 
above. With the enormous increase of genuine literature, 
not to mention books of merit but of unstable reputa- 
tion, familiarity with the bulk of the world 's literary treasures 
is to-day beyond the capability of all but a few. The mind 
that is stored with the lofty imagery of Milton, or the graphic 
but too often prosy descriptions of Homer and other classical 
writers, has little in common with that of the reader of humor- 



vi Preface 

ous works, such as those of Hood and Barham, Mark Twain 
and Kipling. To cater exclusively to one class is to exclude 
the other from participation in whatever advantages a col- 
lection of quotations may possess; and practically neither 
class would be satisfied with the result, yet with the best en- 
deavours, the question will repeatedly be asked of any col- 
lection, — and doubtless at times with impatience, — "Why is 
this passage given room while that is omitted?" No answer 
can be given that will prove satisfactory to every querist. 
The omission of one passage may be justified by its very 
familiarity, it being assumed that nearly every one would 
recognize its language and its source, and the space thus 
afforded may give room to some phrase newly coming into 
favour. The insertion of another may be due to its famil- 
iarity in certain circles of readers. 

To constitute familiarity a quotation must present, in 
pleasing and compact form, some noteworthy truth or idea, — - 
be the latter philosophical or humorous. It must be in- 
cisive, to create an impression on the mind; it must be brief, 
to retain a hold, however slight, upon the memory. A line 
or a few words will linger for years in some unused chamber 
of the brain, until occasion furnishes the connection between 
the present and the past. Then like a flash comes recollec- 
tion,— sometimes clear, but more often confused and in- 
distinct, — of having that idea presented to the mind before. 
According to the strength of the mental faculties and the 
amount of their training, more or less assistance must be 
called for to reproduce the complete image, and the mere sug- 
gestion of a word may suffice to establish the train of thought. 
But to frame a complete list of quotations which should 
supply the mental yearnings of every one would be an im- 
possible task. Many men have many minds — to quote a 
hoary thought — and no collection — however comprehensive 
— of crystallized ideas could ever begin to supply the de- 
mands of human mental activities. 

Too many books of this nature follow one another blindly, 
even in many cases justifying the suspicion that little origi- 
nality was used in their compilation. In the present work, 
however, the selection of quotations has been made directly 
from the sources, with the purpose of bringing together as 



Preface vii 

varied a collection as possible, — a collection which should 
appeal to a large number of readers through both its literary 
value and its practical usefulness. This has made it possible 
to avoid following the exact lines of the older collections, 
and to present to the public a work fresh and original. The 
advantage of the present volume as a book of reference is 
that it contains many phrases and verses, the source of which 
is not generally known or easily found; and that it is par- 
ticularly interesting and suggestive to the general reader on 
account of the number and variety of the quotations, many 
of which are from literary fields not generally touched upon 
in similar works. 

In the present collection, but little attempt has been made 
to tap the great fountain of foreign or classical literature, or 
to trace to their original sources the sentences which contain 
the crystallized wisdom of ages. In the world of thought 
there is comparatively little new. Old ideas are reclothed 
in newer language; but many of the gems of English literature 
have their basic germ in the thought of thousands of years ago. 
The logic of a Bacon, the imagery of a Milton, or the keen 
exposition of human nature of a Shakespeare can often be 
traced back to the philosophers, poets, orators, and histo- 
rians of Greece and Rome. Still further back, the thread may 
be followed through Egyptian lore till we find familiar ideas 
impressed on Assyrian and Babylonian tablets and cylinders. 
Beyond this point who can say that human wisdom shall be 
ultimately traced? And yet it can hardly be said that scien- 
tific exploration will not at some time reveal evidence of 
more remote civilizations with rich literature. For this 
reason little or no attempt has been made in these pages to 
detect the earliest known exponent of an idea. Space, to 
say nothing of other limitations upon such a scheme, would 
naturally forbid more than has been attempted, — the cita- 
tion of some author of ability or repute who has at some time 
given form and utterance to a happy description, a quaint 
conceit, or an immortal truth. 

The field of this book is therefore narrowed practically 
to English and American literature. Within this field every 
effort has been made to include a wide range of authors, sub- 
jects and literary styles: There has been no intent to limit 



viii Preface 

the quotations to authors of classical rank; for humble ideas 
will often survive where polished form will perish. Con- 
siderable use has, however, been made of such translations 
from the classics and the writings of foreign authors as have 
reproduced in poetic form in our own tongue the glories of 
the Greek and Latin writers. 

The storehouse of language and thought which lies within 
the covers of the Bible has purposely been drawn upon very 
scantily, and then more by way of annotation than of direct 
quotation. More than sufficient material has been found in 
more modern fields to fill the space originally allotted to this 
volume, and to enter the sacred field without reaping an 
ample harvest would prove but an aggravation to the seeker 
after Biblical lore. 

For the quotations that are given, a glance at the index 
of authors will suffice to show that there is an unusually large 
number of authors cited, — more than in any other such col- 
lection of similar size and scope; and that they represent all 
classes from the great poets to obscure writers who are re- 
membered only by some one poem, or perhaps by a single 
verse or phrase which through some value of its own has im- 
pressed itself upon the minds of men. Among these many 
authors, even at the risk of sacrificing some old favourites, the 
most modern writers have been well represented; for many 
of their apt phrases and forcible words have already made 
their impression upon the public mind, and if not actually 
"familiar" are rapidly becoming so, and are likely to remain 
so. Among those cited may be mentioned, Kipling, Austin 
Dobson, Edwin Markham, and Theodore Roosevelt. The 
introduction of such names is a distinguishing characteristic 
of this volume, and will contribute largely, it is hoped, to its 
usefulness. 

In citing the different quotations, each one has been taken 
from the most trustworthy available editions of the works 
of the authors cited, and variorum readings have been sup- 
plied in many cases. When possible, such different readings 
have been given in the text enclosed in brackets; but when 
the variation is considerable and the insertion of both ren- 
derings in the text awkward or impossible, one of the readings 
has been given in the form of a footnote. Painstaking effort 



Preface ix 

has been made to secure accuracy in specific reference, but on 
account of variances between editions, it is possible that the 
passages quoted may be found in certain editions a few lines 
distant from the citations given in this volume; though in 
some instances varying citations are given. 

In reference to the general plan of the book, it is to be 
noted that the quotations are arranged under "key-words" 
— that is under some word occurring in the text of the passage 
selected, which seems most readily to suggest the idea of the 
whole, and most likely to occur to any one seeking the par- 
ticular passage in question. This arrangement has been 
deemed superior to the arrangement by authors, because 
likely to give the most satisfactory aid to the reader who is 
seeking the accurate reference for a phrase he but imper- 
fectly remembers, or the one who is looking for a passage 
illustrating and enforcing a certain idea. In either case such 
key-word is the one thing most likely to be remembered or 
sought for, and the desired passage can always most readily 
be found by this means. Both of these uses of the book may 
be illustrated by a single case. Let us suppose that one 
vaguely remembers a passage in which occurs the reference, 
"Life's final star is brotherhood," or that he wishes to have 
at hand a number of passages in which brotherhood is the 
leading idea. In either case he has but to open the book at 
the word brotherhood. Under this word he will find the pas- 
sage, in which the given expression occurs, cited from Mark- 
ham, and he will also find such other passages as the book 
contains, in which brotherhood is the leading word. 

Naturally there might be a difference of opinion as to 
what the key-word should be, especially in certain passages 
where two words seem to be equally significant and sugges- 
tive, or, on the other hand, the reader's remembrance of the 
quotation he is seeking may be vague, and some less im- 
portant word may have for some reason or other impressed 
itself upon his memory. In all cases of either kind the 
general index is well calculated effectually to aid him in his 
search. The general index is very full and gives a reference 
for every important word in every quotation, with enough 
of the phrase given to distinguish it. Key-words are indi- 
cated by italics; and when the quotations under any key- 



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word cover more than one page the inclusive page references 
are given. This word is not again indexed for any quotation 
arranged under such key-word; but is indexed for every 
other passage in which it has any importance. Take, for 
example, the word love; the quotations grouped under this 
as a key-word cover several pages, and the page references 
are accordingly given in the index. Tennyson's 

" Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his glowing 
hands" 

is included in these pages; hence love is not again indexed for 
this specific passage, but it is separately indexed in the phrase 
"a sigh for those who love me" — which is elsewhere found 
under a different key-word. 

The footnotes — aside from the variorum readings already 
mentioned — consist, for the most part, of parallel passages 
from other authors than those cited, which express ideas more 
or less similar to those illustrated in the text; thus bringing 
together a number of quotations related in thought, if not 
similar in language and expression, which might otherwise 
be separated; and serving to illustrate how a thought may 
be consciously or unconsciously passed on from one writer 
to another, or may occur to more than one almost simultane- 
ously. Less frequently passages from the same author are 
given, especially when the thought suggested is frequently 
repeated in his works. 

With this explanation of the aim and plan of the book, 
and with the hope that it will be a real help to those who use 
it, it is submitted to their kindly judgment. 



STOKES' ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF 
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 



Abbey. — To the hush of our dread high-altars 
Where the Abbey makes us We. 

Kipling, The Native-Born, st. 12 

ABC. F.R.S. and LL.D. 

Can only spring from ABC. Eliza Cook, ABC 

Sorting and puzzling with a deal of glee 
Those seeds of science called his ABC. 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 13, 14 

Abed. He who once has won a name may lie abed till 

eight. G. W. Thornbury, The Jester's Sermon 

Abra. — Abra was ready ere I called her name ; 

And, though I called another, Abra came. Prior, 
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, II, lines 362, 363 

Abridgment. — An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 
Goldsmith, Retaliation, st. 8 

Absalom. — That 't is a common grief 
Bringeth but slight relief; 
Ours is the bitterest loss, 
Ours is the heaviest cross ; * | 
And for ever the cry will be 
"Would God I had died for thee, 
O Absalom, my son!" 

Longfellow, The Chamber Over the Gate, st. 7 

Absence. — Absence makes the heart grow fonder; 
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well ! 

T. H. Bayly, Isle of Beauty 

There is not one among them but I dote on his very 
absence, and I pray God grant them a fair departure. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

x Tliat loss is common would not make 
My own less bitter, rather more. — Tennyson, In Memoriam, vi, st. 1 



2 Absence— Adieu 

Oh! never say that I was false of heart, 
Though absence seemed my flame to qualify. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet cix 

Accompt. — He can write and read and cast accompt. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II. iv, 2 

Aches. I '11 rack thee with old cramps, 

Fill all thy bones with aches. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, « 

Achieving. — Let us, then, be up and doing, 
With a heart for any fate; 1 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labour and to wait. 

Longfellow, Psalm of Life, st. 9 

Acorns. — Large streams from little fountains flow, 
Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 

D. Everett, Lines Written for a School Declamation 

Action. — Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant 
More learned than the ears. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iii, 2 

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Acts. — Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, 
An Honest Man's Fortune, Epilogue 

Adam. — When Eve upon the first of men 

The apple pressed with specious cant, 
Oh, what a thousand pities then 
That Adam was not Adamant! 

Hood, Epigram xx: A Reflection 

In Adam's fall 

We sinned all. New England Primer 

Adam was a gardener. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2 

Adieu. — Adieu, adieu! my native shore 
Fades o'er the waters blue; 
The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, 
And shrieks the wild sea-mew. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 13(1) 

'Here's a heart for every fate. Byron, To Thomas Moore, st. 2 



Adieu— Affection 3 

He turned his charger as he spake, 

Upon the river shore, 
He gave his bridle-reins a shake, 
Said "Adieu for evermore, 

My love! 
And adieu for evermore.!! 

Scott, Rokeby, Canto iii, st. 28 

Admiration. — A Society of Mutual Admiration. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Adorned. Loveliness 

Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, lines 204-206 

Adversity. O summer friendship, 1 

Whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in 
Our prosperity, with the least gust drop off 
In the autumn of adversity. 

Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour 

Sweet are the uses of adversity, 

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; 

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 2 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 1 

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, 
For wise men say it is the wisest course. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iii, 1 

Advice. — Good but rarely came from good advice. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiv, st. 66 

Affection. — Skins may differ, but affection 
Dwells in white and black the same. 

Cowper, The Negro's Complaint, st. 2 

Surely a woman's affection 
Is not a thing to be asked for, and had for only the 

asking. 
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but 
shows it. 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, 

iii, lines 125-127 

1 Like summer friends, 
Flies of estate and sunneshine. — G. Herbert, The Answer. 
2 God is seen God 
In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul, and the clod. 

Robert Browning, Saul, xvii 



Affection— Age 



Affection is a coal that must be cooled ; 
Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. 

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 387, 388 

Affliction. Henceforth I '11 bear 

Affliction till it do cry out itself 
"Enough, enough!-'! and die. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 6 

Affront. — A moral, sensible, and well-bred man 
Will not affront me, and no other can. 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 193, 194 

Afloat. — I 'm afloat — I 'm afloat — on the fierce rolling tide ; 
The ocean 's my home! and my bark is my bride. 

Eliza Cook, Rover's Song, st. 1 

Afternoon. Sleeping within my [mine] orchard, 

My custom always of [in] the afternoon. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Age. — A lady of "a certain age," which means 

Certainly aged. Byron, Don Juan, Canto vi, st. 69 

I am not of this people, nor this age. 

Byron, Prophecy of Dante, Canto i, line 143 

When he's forsaken, 

Withered and shaken, 
What can an old man do but die? 

Love will not clip him, 

Maids will not lip him, 
Maud and Marian pass him by ; 

Youth it is sunny, 

Age has no honey, — 
What can an old man do but die? Hood, Ballad 

He was not of an age, but for all time! 

Ben Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare, line 43 

Old age is still old age. 
It is the waning, not the crescent moon ; 
The dusk of evening, not the blaze of noon: 
It is not strength, but weakness; not desire, 
But its surcease; not the fierce heat of fire, 
The burning and consuming element, 
But that of ashes and of embers spent, 
In which some living sparks we still discern, 
Enough to warm, but not enough to burn. 

Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus, st. 26 

Old age ne'er cools the Douglas blood. 

Scott, Marmion, vi, 15 



Age— Alcoholic 5 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 

Her infinite variety: other women cloy 

The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry 

Where most she satisfies. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra," ii, 2 

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, 
hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the 
saltness of time. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

When the age is in, the wit is out. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 5 

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: 
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; 
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; 
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. 

Shakespeare, Passionate Pilgrim, st. 12 

Thoughts of my age, 

Dread ye not the cold sod; 
Hopes of my age, 

Be ye fixed on your God. 

St. George Tucker, Days of My Youth, st. 3 

Agony. — Charm ache with air, and agony with words. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Air. — Hamlet. The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold. 
Horatio. It is a nipping and an eager air. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 4 

The air, a chartered libertine. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, i, 1 

Alarum. — Hear the loud alarum bells — 
Brazen bells! 
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells. 

Poe, The Bells, st. 3 

Albatross. — "Why look'st thou so? " — "With my cross-bow 
I shot the albatross." 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 81, 82 

Alcalde. — He whose father is alcalde, of his trial hath no fear. 
Bret Harte, Concepcion de Arguello, iii, st. 15 

Alcoholic. — The alcoholic virtues don't wash; but until the 
water takes their colours out, the tints are very much 
like those of the true celestial stuff. 

Holmes, Atitocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 



6 Ale— Almighty 

Ale. — Then to the spicy nut-brown ale. 1 

Milton, V Allegro, line ioo 

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 2 

A quart of ale is a dish for a king. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 3 [2] 

I cannot eat but little meat, — 

My stomach is not good; 
But, sure, I think that I can drink 
With him that wears a hood. . . . 
Back and side, go bare, go bare; 

Both foot and hand go cold; 
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, 
Whether it be new or old. 

John Still, Good Ale, st. 1 

Alexandrine. — A needless Alexandrine ends the song 

That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 356, 357 

Algebra. He, by geometric scale, 

Could take the size of pots of ale ; 
Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, 
If bread or butter wanted weight; 
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day 
The clock does strike, by algebra. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 1 21-126 

Allegory. — As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the 
Nile. Sheridan, The Rivals, v, 3 

Alley. — Of all the girls that are so smart 
There's none like pretty Sally; 
She is the darling of my heart, 
And she lives in our alley. 

H. Carey, Sally in Our Alley, st. 1 

Alliances. — Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all 
nations, — entangling alliances with none. 
Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 

Alliteration. — Apt alliteration's artful aid. 

C. Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine 

Almighty. — The Almighty has his own purposes. 

Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, 

March 4, 1865 

1 Foamed forth in floods the nut-brown ale. 

Scott, Lay 0} the Last Minstrel, Canto VI, vin 



Alms— Ambitious 7 

Alms. — That is no true alms which the hand can hold ; 
He gives only the worthless gold 
Who gives from a sense of duty. 

Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, i, st. 6 

Alone. — Alone, alone, all, all alone, 
Alone on a wide, wide sea! 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 232, 233, 598 

Alone I did it. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v, 6 [5] 

Altar-stairs. — Upon the great world's altar-stairs 
That slope through darkness up to God. 

Texnysox, In Memoriam, lv, st. 4 

Ambassador. — An ambassador is an honest man sent to he 
abroad for the good of his country. 

Sir Hexry Wottox, adapted and translated 

by Izaak Walton in his Life of Wotton 

Ambition. — Till pride and worse ambition threw me down. 
Miltox, Paradise Lost, IV, line 40 

What will not ambition and revenge 
Descend to? who aspires must down as low 
As high he soared. Ibid., IX, lines 168-170 

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; 
But when he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend. 

Shakespeare, Jidius Caesar, ii, 1 

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Ibid., iii, 2 

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: 
By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Ambitious. — As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was 
fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour 
him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is 
tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his 
valour; and death for his ambition. 

Shakespeare, Jidius Ccesar, iii, 2 



8 Ambitious— Anchor 

No man's pie is freed 
From his ambitious finger. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, i 

Amen. "Amen" 

Stuck in my throat. Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 2 

America. — This day is a glorious day for America. 

Samuel Adams, quoted in Tudor's Life of James Otis 

America! half-brother of the world! 

With something good and bad of every land. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — The Surface 

My Lords, you cannot conquer America. 

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 
Speech on the American War, Nov. 18, 1777 

American. — I am an American, — and wherever I look up 
and see the stars and stripes overhead, that is home 
to me! Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, iv 

The apron-strings of an American mother are made 
of india-rubber. Her boy belongs where he is wanted; 
and . . . his home [is] wherever the stars and stripes 
[blow] over his head. Ibid., xii 

To think of trying to waterproof the American mind 
against the questions that Heaven rains down upon it 
shows a misapprehension of our new conditions; . . . 
for what the Declaration means is the right to question 
everything, even the truth of its own fundamental 
proposition. Ibid. 

The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man [Lincoln], 
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, 
New birth of our new soil, the first American. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 6 

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a 
foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would 
lay down my arms — never — never — never! 

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 
Speech on the American War, Nov. 18, 1777 

Amorous. — Whosoever esteemeth too much of amorous af- 
fection, quitteth both riches and wisdom. 

Bacon, Essay X: Of Love 

Anchor. — Our anchor soon must change his bed of fiery rich 
array 
For a hammock at the roaring bows, or an oozy couch 
of clay. 

Sir S. Ferguson, The Forging of the Anchor, st. 4 



Anchor — Angle 



Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 222 

Angel. — Thou hast called me thy angel in moments of bliss, 
And thy angel I '11 be, 'mid the horrors of this, — 
Through the furnace, unshrinking, thy steps to pursue, 
And shield thee, and save thee, — or perish there too! 

Thomas Moore, Come, Rest in This Bosom, st. 3 

Methinks an angel spake. — Shakespeare, King John, v, 2 

Till my bad angel fire my good one out. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet cxliv; Passionate Pilgrim, st. 2 

Angels. — The angels all were singing out of tune, 
And hoarse with having little else to do, 
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, 
Or curb a runaway young star or two. 

Byron, Vision of Judgment, st. 2 

I know that the angels are whispering with thee. 

S. Lover, The Angel's Whisper 

Like angels' visits, short and bright. 1 

John Norris, The Parting 

Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 4 

Anger. — Like women's anger, impotent and loud. 

Dryden, Epistle to Sir Godfrey Kneller, line 84 

Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, 
And so shall starve with feeding. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iv, 2 

Anger is like 
A full -hot horse, who being allowed his way, 
Self-mettle tires him. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 1 

Anger hath a privilege. — Shakespeare, King Lear, ii, 2 

Angle. Angle on; and beg to have 

A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 

Izaak Walton, The Angler's Wish, st. 4 

1 Like angel-visits, few and far between. 

Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii, st. 28 

Visits 
Like those of angels~ short and far between. 

R. Blair, The Grave, ii 



io Angling — Apes 

Angling. — Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be 
born so. Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler, i 

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of straw- 
berries: "Doubtless God could have made a better 
berry, but doubtless God never did." And so, if I 
might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, 
innocent recreation than angling. Ibid. 

All that are lovers of virtue ... be quiet and go 
a-angling. Ibid., xxi 

Anguish. — Beloved one, if anguish would fall where fall it 

may, 
If sorrow could be won by gifts to barter prey for prey, 
There is an arm would wither, so thine revived might be ; 
A lip which would be still and mute, to make thy music 

free; 
An eye which would forget to wake, to bid thy morning 

shine ; 
A heart whose very strings would break, to steal one 

pang from thine. Praed, To , st. 2 

Anointed. — The Lord's anointed. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, iv, 4 

Answer. — You shall never take her without her answer, un- 
less you take her without her tongue. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv, 1 

Answers. — I am not bound to please thee with my answers. 
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Anthem. — Where, throtigh the long-drawn aisle and fretted 
vault, 
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 1 1 

The hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem. 
Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Slandish, iii, line 40 

Anti. — Lean, hungry, savage, anti-every things. 

Holmes, A Modest Request, The Speech, line 40 

Antiquity. — Antiquity appears to have begun 
Long after thy primeval race was run. 

Horace Smith, Address to a Mummy, st. 6 

Apes. — I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, 
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell. 1 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii 

J I will . . . lead his apes into hell. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 1 



Apology — Approbation 1 1 

Apology. — Apology is only egotism wrong side out. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, vi 

Apostles. — Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life 

Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats, 
An' marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, 
To git some on 'em office, an' some on 'em votes; 
But John P. 
Robinson he 
Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, iii, st. 8 

Apothecary. — An apothecary on a white horse 
Rode by, on his vocation; 
And the Devil thought of his old friend, 
Death, in the Revelation. 

Southey, The Devil's Walk, st. 7 

Apparel. — Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

Appetite. — Appetite comes with eating. Rabelais, I, v 

She would hang on him, 
As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

Applaud. — I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
That should applaud again. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 3 

Applause. — The applause of listening senates 1 to command. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 1 7 

Apple. — An evil soul producing holy witness 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Apples. — Lord love us, how we apples swim. 

David Mallett, 2 Tyburn 

There 's small choice in rotten apples. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, i, 1 

Approbation. — Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise 
indeed. 

Thomas Morton, A Cure for the Heart-ache, v, 2 

1 While listening senates hang upon thy tongue. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, line 15 

2 Also attributed to Swift. 



12 Approbation— Arms 

IT is approbation strikes the string of joy. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VIII, line 85 

Arab. — Because thou com 'st, a weary guest, 
Unto my tent, I bid thee rest. 
This cruse of oil, this skin of wine, 
These tamarinds and dates are thine. 

Even so 
An Arab chieftain treats a foe, 
Holds him as one without a fault 
Who breaks his bread and tastes his salt; 
And, in fair battle, strikes him dead 
With the same pleasure that he gives him bread. 

T. B. Aldrich, An Arab Welcome 

Archer. — Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? 

Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; 
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 212-214 

Are. — We know what we are, but know not what we may be. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Argue. — In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, 
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 14 

Ark. — Presume to lay their hand upon the ark 
Of her magnificent and awful cause. 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 231, 232 

Arm. — Arm! arm! it is — it is — the cannon's opening roar! 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 22 

Arm-chair. — I love it, I love it ; and who shall dare 
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair? 

Would ye learn the spell? — a mother sat there; 
And a sacred thing is that old arm-chair. 

Eliza Cook, The Old Arm-chair, st. 1 

Armed. — Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, 1 
And he but naked, though locked up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii* 2 

Arms. — My soul's in arms, and eager for the fray. 

Colley Cibber, Richard III, Adapted, v, 5 

1 My strength is as the strength of ten, 

Because my heart is pure. Tennyson, Sir Galahad 



Arms — Ass 13 

Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate, 
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. 1 

Dryden, Virgil's JEneid, Book I, lines i, 2 

The arms are fair, 
When the intent of bearing them is just. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 2 

Art. — All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. 2 

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, sect, xvi 

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's 

green and gold, 
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with 

a stick in the mould; 
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was 

joy to his mighty heart, 
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: " It 's pretty, 

but is it art? " 

Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshop 

Artificer. — Another lean unwashed artificer. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

Artillery. — Then shook the hills with thunder riven; 
Then rushed the steed, to battle driven; 
And louder than the bolts of Heaven 
Far flashed the red artillery. 

Thomas Campbell, Hohenlinden, st. 4 

Arts. — Arts that thrive at Number Five 

Don 't take at Number One. Hood, Number One, st. 3 

Ashes. — Take them, O Father, in immortal trust! 
Ashes to ashes, dust to kindred dust, 
Till the last angel rolls the stone away, 
And a new morning brings .eternal day! 

Holmes, Dedication of the PittsfLeld Cemetery, st. 9 

Ass. — Oh, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, 
masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not 
written down, yet forget not that I am an ass . . . Oh, 
that I had been writ down an ass. . . . Do not forget 
to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am 
an ass. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iv, 2; v, 1 



And angry Juno's unrelenting hate. 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, line 698 
'■ The course of nature is the art of God. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IX, line 1269 



14 Asses— Authors 

Asses. — Its proper power to hurt, each creature feels; 
Bulls aim their horns, and asses lift their heels. 
Pope Imitations of Horace. 

Satire I, Book ii, lines 85, 86 

Theseus. I wonder if the lion be to speak. 
Demetruis. No wonder, my lord : one lion may, when 
many asses do. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, v, 1 

Assurance. I '11 make assurance doubly sure, 

And take a bond of fate. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 1 

Assyrian. — The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, 
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. 

Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 1 

Astronomer. — An undevout astronomer is mad. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IX, line 773 

Atheism. — A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to athe- 
ism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds 
about to religion. . . . Atheism is rather in the lip than 
in the heart of man. Bacon, Essay XVI: Of Atheism 

Atheist. — By night an atheist half believes a god. 

Young, Night Thoughts, V, line 176 

Atlantis. — The lost Atlantis of our youth! 

Longfellow, Ultima Thide, Dedication, st. 2 

Attempt. — Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; 
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. 

Herrick, Seek and Find 

Attractive. — Here 's metal more attractive. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Auld Lang Syne. — Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And never brought to min ' ? 



We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, 

For auld lang syne. Burns, Auld Lang Syne 

Austrian. — An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, 
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. 

Anonymous, Siege of Belgrade 

Authors. — Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; 
It is the rust we value, not the gold. 
Pope, Imitations of Horace, Epistle I, Book ii, lines 35,36 



Avarice — Baby- 



Avarice. — So, for a good old gentlemanly vice, 
I think I must take up with avarice. 

Byrox, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 216 

Avenged. — 'T is an old tale and often told; 
But did my fate and wish agree, 
Ne'er had been read in story old 
Of maiden true betrayed for gold 
That loved or was avenged like me ! 

Scott, Marmion, ii, st. 27 

God ! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee, 
But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds, 
Yet execute thy wrath in [on] me alone ; 
Oh, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children! 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 4 

Avenging. — So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, 
Till blood for blood atones! 
Ay, though he 's buried in a cave, 
And trodden down with stones, 
And years have rotted off his flesh, — 
The world shall see his bones ! 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram 

Awake. — Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen! 

Miltox, Paradise Lost, I, line 33 

Aweary. Cassius is aweary of the world; 

Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother; 
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed, 
Set in a note-book, learned, and conned by rote, 
To cast into my teeth. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccssar, iv, 3 

Axe. — When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, 
begging them to taste a little brandy, and throwing half 
his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe 
to grind. C. Minor, Who '11 Turn Grindstones? 

Axis. — The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the 
centre of each and every town or city. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi 

Baby. — Who can tell what a baby thinks? 
Who can follow the gossamer links 

By which the mannikin feels his way 
Out from the shore of the great unknown, 
Blind, and wailing, and alone, 

Into the light of day? J. G. Holland, Bitter 

Sweet; First Movement — The Question Stated 



1 6 Baby— Ballads 

"Where did you come from, baby dear? " 
"Out of the everywhere into the here." 

G. Macdonald, The Baby, st. i 

Oh, hush thee, my baby, thy sire was a knight, 
Thy mother a lady both lovely and bright. 

Scott, Lullaby of an Infant Chief, st. * 

Bacchus. — Bacchus, ever fair and young, 
Drinking joys did first ordain; 
Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, 
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: 
Rich the treasure, 
Sweet the pleasure, 
Sweet is pleasure after pain. 

Dryden, Alexander' s Feast, lines 54-60 

Bachelor. — When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not 
think I should live till I were married. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3 

Bachelor's Hall. — Bachelor's Hall, what a quare-lookin' place 
it is! 
Kape me from such all the days of my life! 
Sure but I think what a burnin' disgrace it" is, 
Niver at all to be gettin' a wife. 

Pots, dishes, pans, an' such grasy commodities, 

Ashes and praty-skins, kiver the floor; 
His cupboard's a storehouse of comical oddities, 

Things that had niver been neighbours before. 

John Finley, Bachelor's Hall, st. 1,2 

Bad. — IT is no shame to be bad, because 'tis so common. 

Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy, ii, 1 

Bairns. — Oh, bairnies, cuddle doon ! 

Alexander Anderson, Cuddle Doon 

They say barnes are blessings. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 

Bait. — Bait the hook well; this fish will bite. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado* about Nothing, ii, 3 

Balance. — I called the New World into existence to redress 
the balance of the Old. Canning, The King's Message 

Ballads. — I knew a very wise man that believed that if a 
man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not 
care who should make the laws of a nation. 

Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Letter to the 

Marquis of Montrose 



Balm — Bar 17 

Balm. — "Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell 
me, I implore!" 

Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" 

Poe, The Raven, st. 15 

Banishment. — The bitter bread of banishment. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 1 

Bank. — I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, ii, 1 

Banner. — For ever float that standard sheet ! 

Where breathes the foe but falls before us, 
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 

And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us? 

Drake, The American Flag, st. 5 

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, 

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleam- 
ing? 
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the peril- 
ous fight, 
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly 
streaming ; 
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, 
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ; 
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? 

F. S. Key, The Star-Spangled Banner, st. 1 

Our glorious Semper Eadem, the banner of our pride. 

Macaulay, The Armada, line 30 

Banners. — Hang out our banners on the outward walls; 
The cry is still "They come!" our castle's strength 
Will laugh a siege to scorn. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 5 

Banquet-hall. — I feel like one 
Who treads alone 
Some banquet -hall deserted, 
Whose lights are fled, 
Whose garlands dead, 
And all but he departed. 

T. Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night, st. .2 

Bar. — Sunset and evening star, 
And one clear call for me ! 
And may there be no moaning of the bar, 
When I put out to sea. 1 

1 Raise ye no cry, and let no moan 

Be made when I depart. — Felicia Hemans, The Cid's Deathbed, st. 9 



1 8 Bar — Barleycorn 

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, 

Too full for sound and foam, 1 
When that which drew from out the boundless deep 2 

Turns again home. 

Twilight and evening bell, 

And after that the dark! 
And may there be no sadness of farewell, 

When I embark. Tennyson, Crossing the Bar 

Barbarism. — There is a moral of all human tales ; 
'T is but the same rehearsal of the past, 
First freedom, and then glory — when that fails, 
Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 10S 

Barbered. — Being barbered ten times o'er. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 2 

Bard. — A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems. 
James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, Canto i, 

st. 6S 
Bargain. — So clap hands and a bargain. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 2 

Bark. That fatal and perfidious bark, 

Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. 

Milton, Lycidas, lines 100, 10 1 

Barleycorn. — John Barleycorn was a hero bold, 
Of noble enterprise, 
For if you do but taste his blood, 
'T will make your courage rise. 

Burns, John Barleycorn, st. 13 

'How still the plains of the water be! 
The tide is in his ecstasy. 
The tide is at his highest height: 

And it is night. — Lanier, The Marshes of Glynn, st. 10 

2 Out of the deep, my child, out of the deep, 
Where all that was to be, in all that was, 
Whirled for a million aeons through the vast 
Waste dawn of multitudinous-eddying light — 



And last in kindly curves, with gentlest fall, 

By quiet fields, a slowly-dying power, 

To that last deep where we and thou are still. 

Tennyson, Be Profundis, i 
Out of the deep, Spirit, out of the deep, 
With this ninth moon, that sends the hidden sun 
Down yon dark sea, thou comest, darling boy. 

Tennyson, De Profundis, ii, st. 1 
Where is he who knows? 
From the great deep to the great deep he goes. 

Tennyson, Coming of Arthur, lines 409, 410 



Barleycorn— Bear 19 

Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn! 
What dangers thou canst mak' us scorn! 
Wi' tippenny we fear nae evil; 
Wi' usquebae we'll face the devil! 

Burns, Tarn 0' Shanter, st. 1 1 

Bastion. — A looming bastion fringed with fire. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xv, st. 5 

Battle. — Battle's magnificently-stern array! Byron, 

ChUde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 28 

While the battle rages loud and long 
And the stormy winds do blow. 

Campbell, Ye Mariners of England 

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth 
On War's red techstone rang true metal, 

Who ventered life an' love an' youth 
For the gret prize o' death in battle? 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, x, st. 17 

And hark! like the roar of the billows on the shore, 
The cry of battle rises along their charging line ! 
For God! for the cause! for the Church! for the Laws! 
For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine ! 
Macaulay, The Battle of Naseby, st. 5 

On the perilous edge 
Of battle. — Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 276, 277 

Battles. — Soothed with the sound the king grew vain; 
Fought all his battles o'er again; 
And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he slew the 
slain. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, lines 66-68 

Be. — To be, or not to be : that is the question : 
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And by opposing end them? — Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

Beak. — "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy 
form from off my door! " 
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" 

Poe, The Raven, st. 17 
Bear. — To bear, to nurse, to rear, 
To watch, and then to lose: 
To see my bright ones disappear, 
Drawn up like morning dews. 
Jean Ingelow, Songs of Seven: Seven Times Six, st. 1 

She will sing the savageness out of a bear. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iv, 1 



20 Beast— Beauty 

Beast. The beast 

With many heads. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iv, i 

A beast, that wants discourse of reason, 
Would have mourned longer. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

Move upward, working out the beast, 
And let the ape and tiger die. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxviii, it. 7 

Beaten. — Some have been beaten till they know 
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow; 
Some kicked, until they can feel whether 
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, i, lines 221-224 

Beautiful. — With other articles of ladies fair, 
To keep them beautiful, or leave them neat. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 143 

Make no deep scrutiny 

Into her mutiny 

Rash and undutiful; 

Past all dishonour, 

Death has left on her 

Only the beautiful. Hood, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 5 

Beautiful as sweet! 
And young as beautiful! and soft as young! 
And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay! 

Young, Night Thotights, III, lines 81-83 

Beauty. — My love in her attire doth show her wit, 
It doth so well become her: 
For every season she hath dressings fit, 
For winter, spring, and summer. 
No beauty she doth miss 
When all her robes are on: 
But Beauty's self she is 
When all her robes are gone. 
Anonymous, Madrigal: My hove in Her Attire 

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, 
The power of beauty I remember yet, 
Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit. 1 
Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, lines 1-3 

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. 

Keats, Endymion, 1, line 1 

1 Oh, the days are gone when beauty bright 

My heart's chain wove, 
When my dream of life from morn to night 
Was love, still love ! 

T. Moore, Love's Young Dream 



Beauty— Bee 21 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 3 

The goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty 
brief in goodness. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 5 

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: 
Lady, you are the cruellest she alive, 
If you will lead these graces to the grave 
And leave the world no copy. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, i, 5 

Bed. — Oh, bed! oh, bed! delicious bed! 

That heaven upon earth to the weary head. 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Dream 

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, 

The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; 

But then begins a journey in my head, 

To work my mind, when body's work's expired. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet xxvii 

Of all the foes that man should dread 
The first and worse one is a bed 

For I 've been born and I 've been wed — 
All of man's peril comes of bed. 

C. H. Webb, Dum Vivimus Vigilamus, st. 1,2 

Bedclothes.— He took lodgings for rain or shine 
Under green bedclothes in '69. 

Holmes, Parson Turell's Legacy, st. 1 

Bedfellows. — Misery acquaints a man with strange bed- 
fellows. 1 Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 2 

Bee.— Where the bee sucks, there suck I: 
In a cowslip's bell I lie. 

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, 

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, v, 1 (Ariel's Song) 

1 In they go, 
Beggar and banker, porter and gentleman, 
The cinder wench and the white-handed lady. 
Into one pit: oh, rare, rare bedfellows! 

There they all lie in uncomplaining sleep. Wilson 

Do not all go to one place? Ecclesiastes, vi, 6 



22 Beef— Bell 

Beef. — When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food, 
It ennobled our hearts, and enriched our blood; 
Our soldiers were brave, and our courtiers were good. 
Oh, the roast beef of old England, 
And oh, the old English roast beef! 

Fielding, The Roast Beef of Old England, st. i 

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3 

Beer. — Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 2 

Taps, that in our day were famous, 
Have given place to lager bier. 

Stedman, The Ballad of Lager Bier, st. 1 

Beetle. — If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

Beggar. Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail 

And say there is no sin but to be rich ; 
And, being rich, my virtue then shall be 
To say there is no vice but beggary. 

Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 [2] 

rs mounted run their horse to death. 
Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 4 

Bell. — The sound of the church-going bell. 

Cowper, Alexander Selkirk, st. 4 

His death, which happened in his berth, 

At forty-odd befell: 
They went and told the sexton, and 

The sexton tolled the bell. 

Hood, Faithless Sally Brown, st. 17 

If the midnight bell 
Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, 
Sound on into the drowsy ear of night. 

Shakespeare, King John, iii, 3 

Bell, book and candle. 1 Ibid. 

a The Cardinal rose with a dignified look, 
He called for his candle, his bell, and his book. 

R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, The Jackdaw of Rheims 
Go fetch me a book! — go fetch me a bell 
As big as a dustman's! — and a candle as well! 
I'll send him — where good manners won't let me tell! 

R. H. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, The Ingoldsby Penance 



Bell— Bells 23 

It is done! 
Clang of bell and roar of gun 
Send the tidings 1 up and down. 

How the belfries rock and reel! 
How the great guns, peal on peal, 
Fling the joy from, town to town! 

Whittier, Laus Deo, st. i 

Bells. — Oh, the merry Christ-Church bells! 

Anonymous, The Merry Bells of Oxford 

Those evening bells! those evening bells! 
How many a tale their music tells, 
Of youth and home and that sweet time 
When last I heard their soothing chime. 

T. Moore, Those Evening Bells, st. i 

Hear the sledges with the bells — 
Silver bells! 
What a world of merriment their melody foretells! 
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, 

In the icy air of night ! 
While the stars that oversprinkle 
All the heavens seem to twinkle 

With a crystalline delight. 2 — Poe, The Bells, st. i 

If ever you have looked on better days, 

If ever been where bells have knolled to church, 

If ever sat at any good man's feast, 

If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear 

And know what 't is to pity and be pitied, 

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

The time draws near the birth of Christ : 

The moon is hid, the night is still; 

A single church below the hill 
Is pealing, folded in the mist. 

A single peal of bells below, 

That wakens at this hour of rest 

A single murmur in the breast, 
That these are not the bells I know. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, civ 

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky. Ibid., cvi, st. 1 



1 Of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States abolishing slavery. 

2 Jingle, jingle, clear the way, See the gleam of glances bright, 

'T is the merry, merry sleigh! Flashing o'er the pathway white! 

As it swiftly scuds along, „ Jingle, jingle, past it flies, 

Hear the burst of happy song, Sending shafts from hooded eyes. 

G. W. Pettee, Sleigh Song. 



24 Belly— Bile 

Belly. — He had a broad face, and a little round belly, 

That shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly. 

C. C. Moore, A Visit from St. Nicholas 

Benefits. — Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, 
Thou dost not bite so nigh 

As benefits forgot: 
Though thou the waters warp, 
Thy sting is not so sharp 
As friend remembered not. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Benison. — God's benison go with you; and with those 
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes! 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 4 

Best. — Grow old along with me! 
The best is yet to be. 

R. Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra, st. 1 

No doubt everything is for the best. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto vi, st. 1 

Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 91, 92 

Betimes. — Not to be a-bed after midnight is to be up betimes. 
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 3 

Beware. — I know a maiden fair to see, 
Take care! 
She can both false and friendly be, 
Beware ! Beware ! 
Trust her not, 
She is fooling thee ! 
Longfellow, Translation fromthe German: Beware! st. 1 

Bible. — Slowly the Bible of the race is writ, 

And not on paper leaves nor leaves of stone; 
Each age, each kindred, adds a verse to it, 
Texts of despair or hope, of joy or moan. 1 

Lowell, Bibliolatres, st. 6 

Bier. — They bore him barefaced on the bier. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Bile. — There are but two bad things in this world — sin 

and bile. Hannah More 

1 Out from the heart of Nature rolled Like the volcano's tongue of flame, 
The burdens of the Bible old; Up from the burning core below, — 

The litanies of nations came, The canticles of love and woe. 

Emerson, The Problem, st. 2 



Bilious — Birthright 25 

Bilious. — No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, 
Nor think I 'm pious when I 'm only bilious. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 4 

Billiards. — Let 's to billiards. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

Bird. — The bird that hath been limed in a bush, 

With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, v, 6 

The ruddy square of comfortable light, 
Far-blazing from the rear of Philip's house, 
Allured him, as the beacon-blaze allures 
The bird of passage, till he madly strikes 
Against it and beats out his weary life. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, lines 7 22-726 

Birdie. — What does little birdie say 
In her nest at peep of day? 

Tennyson, Sea Dreams, lines 281, 282 

Birnam. — Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 3 

Birth. — The owl shrieked at thy birth, — an evil sign; 
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time; 
Dogs howled, and hideous tempests [tempest] shook 

down trees ; 
The raven rooked her on the chimney's top, 
And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, v, 6 

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: 
The soul that rises with us, our life's star, 

Hath had elsewhere its setting, 
And cometh from afar: 

Not in entire forget fulness, 

And not in utter nakedness, 
But trailing clouds of glory do we come 

From God, who is our home. 

Wordsworth, Ode on Intimations of Immortality, st. 5 

Birthdays. — What different dooms our birthdays bring! 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Birth 

Birthright. Thy blood and virtue 

Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness 
Share with thy birthright ! 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 1 



26 Biscay— Blank 

Biscay. — Loud roared the dreadful thunder, 
The rain a deluge showers, 
The clouds were rent asunder 
By lightning's vivid powers; 
The night both drear and dark, 
Our poor devoted bark, 
Till next day, there she lay, 
In the Bay of Biscay, O! 

Andrew Cherry, The Bay of Biscay, st. i 

Bite. — And having looked to government for bread, in the 
very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that 
fed them. Burke, Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. 

Bivouac. — On fame's eternal camping-ground 
Their silent tents are spread, 
And glory guards, with solemn round, 
The bivouac of the dead. 

Theodore O'Hara, The Bivouac of the Dead, st. i 

Blackguards. — "Arcades ambo," id est — blackguards both. 
Byron, Don Juan, Canto iv, st. 93 

Black-jack. — Our vicar still preaches that Peter and Poule 
Laid a swingeing long curse on the bonny brown bowl, 
That there 's wrath and despair in the jolly black-jack, 
And the seven deadly sins in a flagon of sack; 
Yet whoop, Barnaby! off with thy liquor, 
Drink upsees out, and a fig for the vicar. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto vi, st. 5 

Blade. — The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, 
For want of fighting had grown rusty, 
And ate into itself, for lack 
Of some body to hew and hack. 1 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 359-362 

Blaize. — Good people all, with one accord, 
Lament for Madam Blaize; 
Who never wanted a good word — 
From those who spoke her praise. 

Goldsmith, Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 1 

Blameless. — Wearing the white flower of a blameless life. 

Tennyson, Idylls of the King: Dedication, line 24 

Blank. — That man may last, but never lives, 
Who much receives but nothing gives; 
Whom none can love, whom none can thank, 
Creation's blot, creation's blank. 

T. Gibbons, When Jesus Dwelt 

1 A sword laid by, 
Which eats into itself, and rtists ingloriously. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 44 



Blessed — Blood 27 

Blessed. — A spring of love gushed from my heart, 
And I blessed them unaware. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 284, 285 

Blessings. — How blessings brighten as they take their flight. 
Young, Night Thoughts, II, line 606 

Blind. — A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is; 
For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees. 
Longfellow, Poverty and Blindness, from the 

German of F. von Logau 

Bliss. — That dearest bliss, the power of blessing thee! 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, lines n 70-1 176 

Scenes where love and bliss immortal reign. 

Ibid., Spring, lines 1170-1176 

Blocks. — You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless 
things! Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, i, 1 

Blood. When I touched the lifeless clay, 

The blood gushed out amain. 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 18 

That is best blood that hath most iron in 't, 
To edge resolve with, pouring without stint 
For what makes manhood dear. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 10 

Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, 
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 83, 84 

There is no sure foundation set on blood, 
No certain life achieved by others' death. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

Fie, foh, and fum, 
I smell the blood of a British man. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 4 

Lay the summer's dust with showers of blood. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 3 

Blood will have blood. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

He forfeits his own blood that spills another. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iii, 5 

Where blood with gold is bought and sold. 

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, i 



28 Blood-avenging — Bold 

Blood-avenging. — And now, from forth the frowning sky, 
From the Heaven's topmost height, 
I heard a voice — the awful voice 
Of the blood-avenging sprite 1 — 
"Thou guilty man! take up thy dead 
And hide it from my sight! " 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 20 

Bludgeonings. — In the fell clutch of circumstance 
I have not winced nor cried aloud. 
Under the bludgeonings of chance 
My head is bloody, but unbowed. 
W. E. Henley, Out of the Night That Covers Me, st. 2 

Blue. — Under the laurel, the Blue, 
Under the willow, the Gray. 

F. M. Finch, The Blue and the Gray, st. 2 

Blunder. — Sire, it is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. 

Joseph Fouche, cited by Barbere de Vieuzac 

In men this blunder still you find, 
All think their little set — mankind. 

Hannah More, Florio, I 

Blunt. — Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2 

Blushes. — The man that blushes is not quite a brute. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VII, line 496 

Boat. — My boat is on the shore, 

And my bark is on the sea. — Byron, Lines to Moore, st. 1 
Bodies.— Our bodies are [our] gardens, to the which our wills 
are gardeners. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Body. — A dem'd, damp, moist, unpleasant body. 

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xxxiv 

The human body is a furnace which keeps in blast 

threescore years and ten, more or less. . . . When the 

fire slackens, life declines; when it goes out, we are dead. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, vii 

Bold. — Write on your door the saying wise and old, 

"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere — "Be bold; 
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess 
Than the defect; better the more than less; 
Better like Hector in the field to die, 2 
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. 

Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus, st. 1 1 

1 Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies : 

The gods on murderers fix revengeful eyes. Chapman, Widow's Tears 

2 Better to sink beneath the shock, 

Than moulder piecemeal on the rock! Byron, The Giaour, lines 969, 970 



Bold — Bones 29 

A bold bad man. 1 — Spenser, Faerie Queene, I, i, st. 37 

Bolt. — Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? 

T. D. English, Ben Bolt, st. 1 

Bond. — Let him look to his bond. ... I have sworn an 
oath that I will have my bond. . . . Is it so nomi- 
nated in the bond? ... I cannot find it; 't is not in 
the bond. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 1, 3; iv, 1 

Bondman. — Who is here so base that would be a bondman? 
Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

Bonds. — His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, 
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, 
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, 
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 7 

Bondsmen. — Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not 

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 76 

Bones. — The knight's bones are dust, 
And his good sword rust ; 
His soul is with the saints, I trust. 

S. T. Coleridge, The Knight's Tomb 

Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare 
To digg the dust encloased heare, 
Bleste be y e man y* spares thes stones, 
And curst be he y l moves my bones. 2 

Shakespeare, Inscription over His Tomb 

An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; 
Give him a little earth for charity! 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; 

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes 

Which thou dost glare with. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

x This bold bad man. Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, ii, 2 

2 What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones 
The labour of an age in piled stones? 
Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid 

Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Milton, On Shakespeare, 1630 

111 fare the hands that heaved the stones 

Where Milton's ashes lay, 
That trembled not to grasp the~ bones 
And steal his dust away! 

Cowper, On the Liberties Taken with the Remains of Milton, st. 5 



30 Bonnet — Books 

Bonnet. — Tying her bonnet under her chin, 
She tied her raven ringlets in; 
But not alone in the silken snare 
Did she catch her lovely floating hair, 
For, tying her bonnet under her chin, 
She tied a young man's heart within. 

Nora Perry, The Love Knot, st. i 

Book. — Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; 
A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 

lines 51, 52 
The Holy Book by which we live and die. 

R. H. Messinger, A Winter Wish, st. 3 

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master 
spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life 
beyond life. Milton, Areopagitica 

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who 
kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but 
he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — Ibid. 

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a 
book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not 
drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, iv, 2 

Was ever book containing such vile matter 

So fairly bound? Oh, that deceit should dwell 

In such a gorgeous palace! 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 2 

Painter. When comes your book forth? 

Poet. Upon the heels of my presentment, sir. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 1 

Bookful. — The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 
With loads of learned lumber in his head. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 612, 613 

Book-learned. — But of all plagues, the greatest is untold; 
The book -learned wife in Greek and Latin bold, 
The critic-dame, who at her table sits, 
Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits. 

Dryden, Juvenal, Satire VI, lines 560-563 

Books. — Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, 
and some few to be chewed and digested. 

Bacon, Essay L: Of Studies 

Some books are lies frae end to end. 

Burns, Death and Doctor Hornbook 



Books — Boston 31 

I trust in God — and good books. 

Campbell, cited by John Hogben, in 

Biographical Sketch, 1886 

Books cannot always please, however good; 
Minds are not ever craving for their food. 

G. Crabbe, The Borough, Letter xxiv, lines 402, 403 

Learning hath gained most by those books by which 
the printers have lost. J. Fuller, Of Books 

Reading new books is like eating new bread, 
One can bear it at first, but by gradual steps he 
Is brought to death's door of a mental dyspepsy. 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 104-106 

Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me 
From mine own library with volumes that 
I prize above my dukedom. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

Bore. — No iron gate, no spiked and panelled door, 
Can keep out death, the postman, or the bore. 

Holmes, A Modest Request, The Scene, lines 17, 18 

Bores. — Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores. 
Lowell, Fable for Critics, line 55 

Borrower. — Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 1 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

Bosom. — Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, 
Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still 

here; 
Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, 
And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. 

T. Moore, Come, Rest in This Bosom, st. 1 

Boston. Stern-eyed Puritans, who first began 

To spread their roots in Georgius Primus' reign, 
Nor dropped till now, obedient to some plan, 
Their century fruit, — the perfect Boston man. 

Bret Harte, Cadet Grey, Canto i, st. 2 

Boston has opened, and kept open, more turnpikes 

that lead straight to free thought and free speech and 

free deeds than any other city of live men or dead men. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table, i 

1 Who goeth a borrowing, 
Goeth a sorrowing. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: June's Abstract 



32 Boston — Bowl 

Solid men of Boston, 1 banish long potations; 
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! 2 

Charles Morris, Lyra Urbanica 

So, long as Boston shall Boston be, 

And her bay-tides rise and fall, 
Shall Freedom stand in the Old South Church, 

And plead for the rights of all ! 

Whittier, In the Old South, st. 13 

Bottle. — Pardon me, the bottle stands with you. 

Cowper, Hope, line 380 

Leave the bottle on the chimley-piece, and don't ask 
me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am 
so dispoged. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xix 

Bouillabaisse. — This bouillabaisse a noble dish is — 
A sort of soup or broth, or brew, 
Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, 

That Greenwich never could outdo: 
Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, 

Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace: 
All these you eat at Terra's tavern, 
In that one dish of bouillabaisse. 

Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, st. 2 

Bounty. For his bounty, 

There was no winter in 't ; an autumn 't was 
That grew the more by reaping. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2 

Bowed. — My God has bowed me down to what I am; 
My grief and solitude have broken me. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, lines 852, 853 

Bowl. — Troll the bowl, the jolly nut-brown bowl, 
And here, kind mate, to thee! 
Let 's sing a dirge for Saint Hugh's soul, 
And down it merrily. 

Dekker, The Second Three Aden's Song, in 

The Shoemaker's Holiday, v, 4 

1 A solid man of Boston, 
A comfortable man, with dividends, 
And the first salmon, and the first green peas. 

Longfellow, New England Tragedies: John Endicott, iv, i 

2 Also quoted in this form: 

Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; 
Solid men of Boston, banish strong potations! 



Box — Brains 33 

Box. — The whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus 
of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply 
bringing twelve good men into a box. 

Brougham, Present State of the Law 

Boxes. — A beggarly account of empty boxes. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, i 

Boy. — Ah ! happy years ! once more who would not be a boy ? * 
Byrox, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 23 

A boy's will is the wind's will, 
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. 

Longfellow, My Lost Youth 

Oh, 'tis a parlous [perilous] boy; 
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, iii, 1 

Bowls. Fill our bowls once more; 2 

Let 's mock the midnight bell. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iii, 13 [n] 

Brain. — With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. 

C. Churchill, Epistle to Hogarth 

This is the very coinage of your brain. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot 
temper leaps o'er a cold decree. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

Brains. — Our brains are ssventy-year clocks. The Angel of 
Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and 
gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resur- 
rection. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, viii 

Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass 
will not mend his pace with beating. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths 
to steal away their brains! — Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 

1 Perhaps 'twas boyish love, yet still, 

listless woman, weary lover! 
To feel once more that fresh, wild thrill 

1 'd give - — but who can live -youth over? 

Stedmax, The Doorstep, st. 12 
2 "Fill our bowls; once more," — according to differing versions. 



34 Brandy— Bread 

Brandy. — Claret is the liquor for boys : port for men : but 
he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. . . . 
Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do 
for him. 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, April 7, 1779 

Brass. — Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues 
We write in water. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

Brave. — How sleep the brave who sink to rest 
By all their country's wishes blest! 

By fairy hands their knell is rung, 
By forms unseen their dirge is sung: 
There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, 
To bless the turf that wraps their clay, 
And Freedom shall awhile repair 
To dwell a weeping hermit there! 

William Collins, Ode Written in 1746 

None but the brave deserves the fair. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, line 15 

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her 

wretched crust, 
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous 

to be just; 
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward 

stands aside, 
Doubting, in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, 
And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had 

denied. Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 1 1 

The bravest of the brave. 1 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, IV, 2 

The heart's-blood of the brave. 

L. H. Sigourney, Return of Napoleon 

from St. Helena, st. 9 

Bravest. — The bravest are the tenderest, — 
The loving are the daring. 

Bayard Taylor, The Song of the Camp, st. n 

Bread. — Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. 

Byron, Beppo, st. 39 

Not a deed would he do, nor a word would he utter, 
Till he weighed its relation to plain bread and butter. 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 186, 187 

'A characterization of Marshal Ney. 



Bread — Breath 35 

This day, be bread and peace my lot : 

All else beneath the sun, 
Thou know'st if best bestowed or not; 

And let Thy will be done. 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 12 

Bread is the staff of life. 1 Swift, Tale of a Tub 

Chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for 

bread, 
And the spirit of murder works in the very means of life. 
Tennyson, Maud, I, st. 10 

Break. — Break, break, break, 

On thy cold grey stones, O Sea! 
And I would that my tongue could utter 
The thoughts that arise in me. 

Tennyson, Break, Break, st. 1 

Break not, O woman's heart, but still endure. 

Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Dedication, line 43 

Breakers. — The breakers licked them off ; and some were 
crushed, 
Some swallowed in the yeast, some flung up dead, 
The dear breath beaten out of them. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 

Breakfast. Then to breakfast with 

What appetite you have. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Breast. — On some fond breast the parting soul relies, 
Some pious drops the closing eye requires; 
E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, 
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 24 

So perish all whose breast ne'er learned to glow 
For others' good, or melt at others' woe. 

Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, lines 45, 46 

Now is done thy long day's work; 
Fold thy palms across thy breast, 2 
Fold thine arms, turn to thy rest. 

Tennyson, A Dirge, st. 1 

Breath. — With bated breath and whispering humbleness. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

1 Bread which strengtheneth man's heart. Ps. civ, 15 

2 Two hands upon the breast, 

And labor's done. D. M. Craik, Now and Afterwards 



36 Breathing — Bride-bed 

Breathing. — We watched her breathing through the night, 
Her breathing soft and low, 
As in her breast the wave of life 

Kept heaving to and fro.- — Hood, The Death-Bed, st. 1 

Breech. — But Hudibras gave him a twitch 
As quick as lightning in the breech, 
Just in the place where honour's lodged, 
As wise philosophers have judged, 
Because a kick in that part more 
Hurts honour than deep wounds before. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, iii, lines 1065-10 70 

Brevity. — Brevity is the soul of wit. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Bribe. Examine well 

His milk-white hand ; the palm is hardly clean — 
But here and there an ugly smutch appears. 
Foh! 'twas a bribe that left it: he has touched 
Corruption! Whoso seeks an audit here 
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish, 
Wild-fowl or venison; and his errand speeds. 

Cowper, The Task: The Winter Evening, 

lines 606-612 

This prints my letters, 1 that expects a bribe, 
And others roar aloud, "Subscribe, subscribe." 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 113, 114 

Bribes. What! shall one of us, 

That struck the foremost man of all this world 

But for supporting robbers, — shall we now 

Contaminate otir fingers with base bribes, 

And sell the mighty space of our large honours 

For so much trash as may be grasped thus? 

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 

Than such a Roman. — Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Bricks. — Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and 
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2 

Bride. — The bride hath paced into the hall, 
Red as a rose is she; 
Nodding their heads before her goes 
The merry minstrelsy. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 33-36 

Bride-bed. — I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet 
maid, 
And not [to] have strewed thy grave. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

1 Some of Pope's letters to Cromwell had been surreptitiously printed. 



Bridge— Brother 37 

Bridge. — In yon strait path a thousand 
May well be stopped by three. 
Now who will stand on either hand, 
And keep the bridge with me? 

Macaulay, Horatius, st. 29 

Brief. — Brief let me be. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Briers. — Oh, how full of briers is this working-day world! 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 3 

Britain. — When Britain first, at Heaven's command, 
Arose from out the azure main, 
This was the charter of the land, 

And guardian angels sung this strain: 
"Rule, Britannia, rule the waves, 
Britons never will be slaves." — Thomson, Alfred, ii, 5 

British. — Wherever there is water to float a ship, there is to 
be found a British standard. 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, IV, 214 

Britons. Britons rarely swerve 

From law, however stern, which tends their strength to 
nerve. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 19 

Broken-hearted. — Had we never loved sae kindly, 
Had we never loved sae blindly, 
Never met — or never parted, 
We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 

Burns, Ae Fond Kiss, st. 2 

Brook. — A noise like of a hidden brook 
In the leafy month of June, 
That to the sleeping woods all night 
Singeth a quiet tune. 

S. T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 369-372 

Brother. — Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither; 
They had been fou for weeks thegither. 

Burns, Tarn O' Shanter, st. 5 

My father's brother, but no more like my father 

Than I to Hercules. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

There spake my brother; there my father's grave 
Did utter forth a voice. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

"Where wert thou, brother, those four days?" 
There lives no record of reply. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxxi, st. 2 



38 Brotherhood— Bubble 

Brotherhood. — There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, 
It does not feel for man ; the natural bond 
Of brotherhood is severed as the flax 
That falls asunder at the touch of fire. 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 8-ri 

The crest and crowning of all good, 
Life's final star, is Brotherhood. 

Edwin Markham, Brotherhood, st. i 

Brothers. — Then let us pray that come it may, 
As come it will for a' that, 
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, 
May bear the gree [palm] and a' that. 
For a' that and a' that, 

It 's coming yet, for a' that. 

That man to man, the warld o'er, 

Shall brothers be for a' that. 1 

Burns, Is There for Honest Poverty, st. 5 

More than my brothers are to me. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxix, st. 1 

Brow. This man's brow, like to a title-leaf, 

Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 1 

Brown. Old Brown, 

Osawatomie Brown, 
Said, "Boys, the Lord will aid us!" and he shoved his 
ramrod down. 
Stedman, How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry, st. 2 

Brute. — A bitter sorrow 'tis to lose a brute 

Friend, dog or horse, for grief must then be mute, — 

So many smile to see the rivers shed 

Of tears for one poor, speechless creature dead. 

T. W. Parsons, Obituary, lines 11-14 

Bubble. — Only propose to blow a bubble, 

And Lord! what hundreds will subscribe for soap! 

Hood, A Black Job, st. 2 

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, 
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, 
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, 
And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 87-90 

1 Hope on, hope ever, yet the time shall come, 
When man to man shall be a friend and brother. 

Gerald Massey, Hope On, Hope Ever 



Bubbles — Builded 39 

Bubbles. — The Eternal Saki from that bowl has poured 
Millions of bubbles like us, and will pour. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 46 

The earth hath bubbles, as the water hath. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 3 

Bucket. — The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 

S. Woodworth, The Bucket 

Buckets. The toil 

Of dropping buckets into empty wells, 
And growing old in drawing nothing up. 

Cowper, The Task: The Garden, lines 1S8-190 

Xow up, now down, as buckets in a well. 

Drydex, Palamon and Arcite, line 692 

Budge. — I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 1 

Bugle-horn. — Where, where was Roderick then! 1 
One blast upon his bugle-horn 
Were worth a thousand men. 2 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto vi, st. iS 

Bugles. — Our bugles sang truce, for the night -cloud had 
lowered, 
And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; 
And thousands had sunk on the ground overpowered, 
The weary to sleep, and the wounded to die. 

Campbell, The Soldier's Dream, st. 1 

Build. — Build sure in the beginnin'. 

An' then don't never tech the underpinnin'. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 309, 310 

Builded. — The hand that rounded Peter's dome 
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome 
Wrought in a sad sincerity; 
Himself from God he could not free; 
He builded better than he knew; 
The conscious stone to beauty grew. 

Emerson, The Problem, st. 2 

1 Oh! where was Rupert in that hour 

Of danger, toil, and strife? 
It would have been to all brave men 
Worth a hundred years of life. 

Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Old Cavalier, st. S 
2 Oh, for a blast of that dread horn, 
On Fontarabian echoes borne, 

That to King Charles did come! Scott, Marmion, Canto vi, st. 33 



40 Building— Business 

Building. — We've gut to fix this thing for good an' all; 
It 's no use buildin' wut 's a-goin' to fall. 
I 'm older 'n you, an' I 've seen things an' men, 
An' my experunce, — tell ye wut it 's ben : 
Folks thet wurked thorough was the ones thet thriv, 
But bad work f oilers ye ez long 's ye live ; 
You can't git red on't; jest ez sure ez sin, 
It 's oilers askin' to be done agin. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 269-276 

Built. — Heroic built, though of terrestrial mould. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, line 485 

Bulldog. — Stick to your aim ; the mongrel's hold will slip, 
But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 33 

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as 
much as possible. 

Abraham Lincoln, Telegram to Gen. U. S. 

Grant, August 17, 1864 

Bunker's Hill. — "Drink, John," she said, "'twill do you 
good, — poor child, you'll never bear 
This working in the dismal trench, out in the midnight air ; 
And if — God bless me! — you were hurt, 'twould keep 

away the chill; " 
So John did drink, — and well he wrought that night at 
Bunker's Hill! 

Holmes, On Lending a Punch-Bowl, st. 10 

Burden. — The daily burden for the back. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxv, st. 1 

Burgundy. — The mellow-tasted Burgundy. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, line 705 

Burial. — Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial 
blent. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 28 

Burthen. A burthen 

Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Bush. — Good wine needs no bush. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 4 

Business. — To business that we love we rise betime, 
And go to't with delight. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 4 

Come home to men's business and bosoms 

Bacon, Dedication of Essays 



But — Calamity 41 

But. — Messenger. But yet, madam, — 

Cleopatra. I do not liko "But yet," it does allay 
The good precedence; fie upon "But yet"! 
"But yet " is as a gaoler to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

Butcher. — Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh, 
And sees, fast by, a butcher with an axe, 
But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii, 2 

Butterfly. — Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 308 

Buxom. — Buxom, blithe, and debonair. 

Milton, L' Allegro, line 24 

Buy. — I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, 
walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with 
you, drink with you, nor pray with you. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Cabined. Now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, 2 bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Caesar. — Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome 
more. Shakespeare, Julius Ccssar, iii, 2 

Cake. — Would'st thou both eat thy cake, and have it? 

G. Herbert, The Size, st. 3 
My cake is dough. 3 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 1 

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must [needs] 
tarry the grinding. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, i, 1 

Calamity. — Calamity is man's true touchstone. 4 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Four Plays in One: 

The Triumph of Honour, sc. 1 

1 Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest, 
But may imagine how the bird was dead, 
Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak? 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii, 2 
2 Cabined, cribbed, confined. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, 127 

3 Our cake 's dough on both sides. — Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, i, 1 

4 Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of 

the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, 

and the brightest thunderbolt from the darkest storm. 

C. C. Colton, Lacon. 



42 Calf— Cannon-shot 

Calf. — To worship the golden calf of Baal; ... to barter 
away that precious jewel, self-esteem, and cringe to any 
mortal creature — for eighteen shillings a week ! . . . 
Had it been for the sake of a ribbon, star, or garter; 
sleeves of lawn, a great man's smile, a seat in Parlia- 
ment, a' tap upon the shoulder from a courtly sword; a 
place, a party, or a thriving lie, or eighteen thousand 
pounds, or even eighteen hundred : — but to worship the 
golden calf for eighteen shillings a week! oh, pitiful, 
pitiful! Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, x 

Calumny. — Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou 
shalt not escape calumny. 1 — Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, i 

Camel.— It is as hard to come as for a camel 

To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. 2 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, v, 5 

Camp. — After eighteen hundred years' profession of the creed 
of peace, Christendom is an armed camp. 

Lecky, The Map of Life, vii 

Cancer. — There's nothin' for a cancer but the knife, 
Onless you set by 't more than by your life. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 291, 292 

Candidate. — Ez to my princerples I glory 
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort; 
I ain't a Wig, I ain't a Tory, 
I 'm jest a candidate, in short. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, vii, st. 10 

Candle. — How far that little candle throws his beams! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, v 

Cannon. — Cannon to right of them, 
Cannon to left of them, 
Cannon in front of them 
Volleyed and thundered. 

Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade, st. 3 

Cannon-shot. — Cannon-shot, musket-shot, volley on volley, 
and yell upon yell. — Tennyson, Defence of Lucknow, st. 3 



1 No might nor greatness in mortality 

Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny 

The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong 

Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii 
2 Matt, xix, 24; Mark x, 25; Luke xviii, 25. 



Canopy — Care 43 

Canopy. — Third Servant. Where dwellest thou? 
Coriolanus. Under the canopy. 

Third Servant. Where 's that ? 
Coriolanus. I' the city of kites and crows. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iv, 5 

Caps. They threw their caps 1 

As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon, 
Shouting their emulation. — Shakespeare, Coriolanus, i, 1 

Captain. — That in the captain's but a choleric word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

Great in council and great in war, 

Foremost captain of his time, 

Rich in saving common sense, 

And, as the greatest only are, 

In his simplicity sublime. — Tennyson, Ode on the 

Death of the Duke of Wellington, st. 4 

Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, 

The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought 

is won, 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and 
daring ; 
But O heart! heart! heart! 
O the bleeding drops of red, 

Where on the deck my Captain lies, 
Fallen cold and dead. 
Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! st. 1 

Card. — How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the 
card, or equivocation will undo us. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Care. — I know not where His islands lift 
Their fronded palms in air; 

1 only know I cannot drift 

Beyond His love and care. 2 

Whittier, The Eternal Goodness, st. 20 

*You are they 
That made the air unwholesome, when you cast 
Your stinking, greasy caps in hooting at Coriolanus' exile. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iv, 6 
The rabblement hooted [shouted] and clapped their chapped [chopped] 
hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps. 

Shakespeare, Julius Cwsar, i, 2 
2 1 cannot go 
Where Universal Love not smiles around. 

Thomson, A Hymn, lines in, 112 



44 Cares — Cat 

Cares. Gi'e me a canny hour at e'en, 

My arms about my dearie, oh! 
An' warly cares, an' warly men, 
May a' gae tapsalteerie, oh! 

Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, st 3 

And the night shall be filled with music, 

And the cares that infest the day 
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, 

And as silently steal away. 

Longfellow, The Day Is Done, st. 11 

His cares are now all ended. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 2 

Case. — A rotten case abides no handling. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 1 

Cash. — Some for the glories of this world; and some 
Sigh for the Prophet's paradise to come; 

Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go, 
Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum ! 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 13 

Cast. — Slave! I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 4 

Castle. — A man's house is his castle. 1 

Sir Edward Coke, Third Institute 

Cat. — Should ever anything be missed — milk, coals, um- 
brellas, brandy — 
The cat 's pitched into with a boot or anything that 's 
handy. C. S. Calverley, Sad Memories, st. 5 

What female heart can gold despise? 
What cat 's averse to fish ? 

Thomas Gray, On a Favourite Cat, st. 4 

Now puss, while folks are in their beds, treads leads, 
And sleepers, waking, grumble — "Drat that cat! " 
Who in the gutter caterwauls, squalls, mauls 
Some feline foe, and screams in shrill ill will. 

Hood, A Nocturnal Sketch, lines 22-25 

'The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the 
crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through 
it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter, — but the King of England 
cannot enter! All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined 
tenement. 

William Pitt, Earl op Chatham, Speech Against the Excise on Cider 



Cat— Cecilia 45 



What d'ye think of that, my cat? 
dog? 
[ood, The Bachelor's Dream 



What d'ye think of that, my dog? 
Hood, 



Let Hercules himself do what he may, 
The cat will mew and dog will have his day. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, i 

As vigilant as a cat to steal cream. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iv, 2 

Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,". 
Like the poor cat i' the adage. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed. Ibid., iv, 1 

A harmless necessary cat. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough 
in thee to kill care. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Catastrophe. — I'll tickle your catastrophe. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 1 

Catechism. — Love! Honour! And Obey! Overhaul your cat- 
echism till you find that passage, and when found turn 
the leaf down. Dickens, Dombey and Son, iv 

Cathay. — Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall, fine 184 

Cats. — When cats run home and light is come. 

Tennyson, The Owl, st. 1 

Cauldron. — Round about the cauldron go. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 1 

Cause. — His cause being just and his quarrel honourable. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 1 

Caviare. — The play, I remember, pleased not the million; 
'twas caviare to the general. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Cavil. — I '11 cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Cecilia. — At last divine Cecilia came, 
Inventress of the vocal frame. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, lines 161, 162 



46 Celerity — Chaos 

Celerity. — Celerity is never more admired 
Than by the negligent. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iii, 7 

Censure. — Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame; 
Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, 
Averse alike to natter, or offend; 
Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 741-744 

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being 
eminent. Swift, Thoughts on Various Stibjects 

Chair. — To see the vacant chair, and think, 
"How good! how kind! and he is gone! " 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xx, st. 5 

Chaise. — A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. 1 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 3 

Champagne. Quick 

As is the wit it gives, the gay champagne. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, lines 705, 706 

Champion. — His square-turned joints and strength of limb 
Showed him no carpet knight so trim, 
But in close fight a champion grim, 

In camps a leader sage. Scott, Marmion, i, 5 

Chance. — Have a care o' th' main chance. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, line 502 

Chance is like an amberill, — it don't take twice to lose it. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, i, st. 1 

Change. — The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; 
Then let it come. 

Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain, lines 230, 231 

Change is the watchword of Progression. When 

We tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. 
This restless craving in the souls of men 

Spurs them to climb, and seek the mountain view. 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Year Outgrows 

the Spring, st. 5 

Chaos. — A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond 
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. 2 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 542, 543 

1 Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay 

That was built in such a logical way 

It ran a hundred years to a day? 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 1 
2 1 sung of Chaos and eternal Night. Milton, Paradise Lost, III, line 18 

Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night. Pope, The Dunciad, I, line 12 



Charge — Cheek 47 

Charge. — With dying hand, above his head, 
He shook the fragment of his blade 

And shouted "Victory! 
Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!" 
Were the last words of Marmion. — Scott, Marmion, vi, 32 

Charmer. — How happy could I be -with either, 
Were t' other dear charmer away! 

John Gay, The beggar's Opera, ii, 2 [10] 

Charms. — Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, 
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, 
Were to change by to-morrow, and* fleet in my arms, 
Like fairy-gifts fading away. — T. Moore, Believe Me, st. 1 

Honoured well are charms to sell 

If priests the selling do. — N. P.Willis, Unseen Spirits, st. 3 

Charter. A glorious charter, deny it who can, 

Is breathed in the words "I 'm an Englishman! " 

Eliza Cook, The Englishman, st. 4 

Chaste. — As chaste as unsunned snow. 

Shakespeare, Cymbcline, ii, 5 

Chastity. — So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, 
That, when a soul is found sincerely so, 
A thousand liveried angels lackey her, 
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. 

Milton, Camus, lines 453-456 

Chat. — This bald unjointed chat. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 3 

We sit to chat as well as eat. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

Chaucer. — Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, 
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, TV, ii, st. 32 

Cheap. — As cheap as stinking mackerel. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Cheat. — Doubtless the pleasure is as great 
Of being cheated as to cheat. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, iii, lines 1, 2 

Cheek. — See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! 
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand, 
That I might touch that cheek! 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Jidiet, ii, 2 



48 Cheer — Chickens 

Cheer. — Cheer, boys! cheer! no more of idle sorrow, 
Courage, true hearts, shall bear us on our way! 
Hope points before, and shows the bright to-morrow, 
Let lis forget the darkness of to-day! 

Cheer, boys! cheer! for England, mother England! 

Cheer, boys! cheer! the willing strong right hand, 

Cheer, boys! cheer! there 's work for honest labour — 

Cheer, boys! cheer! — in the new and happy land. 

Charles Mackay, Cheer, Boys! Cheer! 

You shall have better cheer 
Ere you depart; and thanks to stay and eat it. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 6 

Cheerful. — A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays 
And confident to-morrows. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion: VII, The Church- 
yard Among the Mountains, lines 562-563 

Cheese. — With the exception of the heel of a Dutch cheese 

— which is not adapted to the wants of a young family 

— there is really not a scrap of anything in the larder. 

Dickens, David Copperfield, I, xi 

I dare not fight; but I will wink and hold out mine 
iron: it is a simple one; but . . . it will toast cheese. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 1 

Cherish. — Something the heart must have to cherish, 
Must love and joy and sorrow learn, 
Something with passion clasp, or perish, 
And in itself to ashes burn. 

Longfellow, Forsaken, st. 1 

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Cherries. — No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season 
of Christmas! 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, ix, line 48 

Cherub. — There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, 
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. 

C. Dibdin, Poor Jack, st. 2 

Chess-board. — We called the chess-board white, — we call it 
black. Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram's 

Apology, line 214 

Chickens. — To swallow gudgeons ere th 're catched, 
And count their chickens ere th 're hatched. 1 

Butler, Hudibras, II, iii, lines 923, 924 

1 This moral, I think, may be safely attached, — 
"'Reckon not on your chickens before they are hatched." 

J. Taylor, The Milkmaid 



Chickens— Childishness 49 

What ! all my pretty chickens and their dam 

At one fell swoop? Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 3 

Chief. — Hail to the chief who in triumph advances! 
Honoured and blessed be the ever-green Pine! 
Long may the tree, in his banner that glances, 
Flourish, the shelter and grace of our line. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto ii, st. 19 

Child. I never seed nothing that could or can 
Jest git all the good from the heart of a man 
Like the hands of a little child. 

John Hay, Golyer, st. 4 

A child don't not feel like a child till you miss him. 

Hood, The Lost Heir 

Never shalt thou the heavens see, 
Save as a little child thou be. 1 

Lanier, The Symphony, lines 333, 334 

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : 
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, 
A little louder, but as empty quite: 
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, 
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: 
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; 
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 275-282 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child! 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 4 

The child is father of the man. 2 

Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold 

Childhood. — How dear to this heart are the scenes of my 

childhood, 
When fond recollection presents them to view! 
The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, 
And every loved spot which my infancy knew! 

S. Woodworth, The Bucket, st. 1 

Childishness. — Second childishness and mere oblivion, 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

'Matt, xviii, 3. 

2 The childhood shows the man 
As morning shows the day. Milton, Paradise Lost, v, lines 220, 221 



50 Children — Choler 

Children. — Children sweeten labours, but they make mis- 
fortune more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but 
they mitigate the remembrance of death. 

Bacon, Essay VII: Of Parents and Children 

Between the dark and the daylight, 

When the night is beginning to lower, 
Comes a pause in the day's occupations, 

That is known as the Children's Hour. 

Longfellow, The Children's Hour, st. i 

Our children's children 
Shall see this, and bless heaven. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 5 [4] 

Chimney. — He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a mo- 
ment. 1 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, vi, line 87 

Chinee. For ways that are dark 

And for tricks that are vain, 
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. — Bret Harte, 

Plain Language from Truthful James, st. 1 

Chinese. — We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor. 

Ibid., st. 7 

Chivalry.— I thought that ten thousand swords would have 
leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that 
threatened her [Marie Antoinette] with insult. But the 
age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, 
and calculators has succeeded. 

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the 

Revolution in France 
Choir. The choir invisible 

Of those immortal dead who live again 
In minds made better by their presence. 

George Eliot, O, May I Join the Choir 

Invisible, st. 1 
She thought no v'ice hed sech a swing 

Ez his'n in the choir; 
My! when he made Ole Hunderd ring, 
She knowed the Lord was nigher. 

Lowell, The Courtin', st. 1 1 

Choler. — Must I give way and room to your rash choler? 
Shall I be frightened when a madman stares? 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

What! drunk with choler? 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 3 

1 Were not I a little pot, and soon hot. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 1 



Chord— Christmas 51 

Chord. I struck one chord of music, 

Like the sound of a great Amen. 

I have sought, but I seek it vainly, 

That one lost chord divine, 
Which came from the soul of the organ, 

And entered into mine. 

It may be that Death's bright angel 

Will speak in that chord again; 
It may be that only in heaven 

I shall hear that grand Amen. 

A. A. Procter, A Lost Chord, st. 2, 6, 7 

Chowder-kettle. — You should have been with us that day 
round the chowder-kettle. 

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 10 

Christ. — Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 8 

Christian. — A Christian is the highest style of man. 1 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, line 789 

Christians. — Christians have burned each other, quite per- 
suaded 
That all the apostles would have done as they did. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 83 

O father Abram, what these Christians are, 
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect 
The thoughts of others! 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Christmas. My song I troll out, for Christmas stout, 
The hearty, the true, and the bold; 
A bumper I drain, and with might and main 
Give three cheers for this Christmas old ! 

Dickens, Pickwick Papers, xxviii, A Christmas Carol 

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the 

house 
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; 
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, 
In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. 

C. C. Moore, A Visit from St. Nicholas 

God rest ye merry, gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, 

For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas Day. 

Dinah M. Mulock, A Christmas Carol, st. 1 

1 A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.— J. C. Hare, Guesses at Truth 
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, i, line 645 



52 Christmas— Church 

The time draws near the birth of Christ: 

The moon is hid, the night is still; 

The Christmas bells from hill to hill 
Answer each other in the mist. 

Four voices of four hamlets round, 

From far and near, on mead and moor, 
Swell out and fail, as if a door 

Were shut between me and the sound: 

Each voice four changes on the wind, 
That now dilate and now decrease, 
Peace and good will, good will and peace, 

Peace and good will, to all mankind. 1 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxviii, st. 1-3 

Again at Christmas did we weave 

The holly round the Christmas hearth. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxviii, st. 1 

At Christmas play and make good cheere, 
For Christmas comes but once a yeere. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good 
Husbandry: The Farmer's Daily Diet, st. 6 

Church. That spiritual pinder, 

Who looks on erring souls as straying pigs, 
That must be lashed by law, wherever found, 
And driven to church as to the parish pound. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. n 

A man may cry Church! Church! at ev'ry word, 

With no more piety than other people — 

A daw's not reckoned a religious bird 

Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple. 

The Temple is a good, a holy place, 

But quacking only gives it an ill savour; 

While saintly mountebanks the porch disgrace, 

And bring religion's self into disfavour! Ibid., st. 17 

1 Tall spire, from which the sound of cheerful bells 
Just undulates upon the listening ear. 

Cowper, The Task: The Sofa, lines 174, 175 

How soft the music of those village bells, 
Falling at intervals upon the ear 
In cadence sweet! now dying all away, 
Now pealing loud again, and louder still, 
Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! 

Cowper, The Task: Winter Walk at Noon, lines 6-10 

Dear bells! how sweet the sounds of village bells 

When on the undulating air they swim! 
Now loud as welcomes! faint, now, as farewells! 
And trembling all about the breezy dells 

As fluttered by the wings of Cherubim. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 16 



Church—Circle 53 

Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, 
Will never mark the marble with his name. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 285, 286 

An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church 
is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 3 

Till holy Church incorporate two in one. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 6 

Cider. — The piercing cider for the thirsty tongue. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, line 643 

Cigar. — A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a 
smoke. 1 Kipling, The Betrothed, st. 25 

Cigar-box. — Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout, 
For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are 
out. Kipling, The Betrothed, st. 1 

Circle. As when 

A stone is flung into some sleeping tarn 
The circle widens till it lip the marge. 2 

Tennyson, Pelleas and Etarre, lines 88-90 

1 They tell me Nancy Low 

Has married Mr. R ; 

The jilt! but I can live, 

So I have my cigar. Hood, The Cigar, st. 14 

2 If that thou 
Throw on water now a stoon, 
Wei wost thou, hit wol make anoon 
A litel roundel as a cercle, 
Paraventure brood as a covercle; 
And right anoon thou shalt see weel, 
That wheel wol cause another wheel, 
And that the thridde, and so forth, brother, 
Every cercle causing other, 
Wyder than himselve was; 
And thus fro roundel to compas, 
Ech aboute other goinge, 
Caused of otheres steringe, 
And multiplying ever-mo, 
Til that hit be so fer y-go 
That hit at bothe brinkes be. 

Chaucer, The House of Fame, II, lines 280-295 

As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; 
The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, 
Another still, and still another spreads. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 364-366 

Glory is like a circle in the water, 

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself 

Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, i, 2 



54 Circumlocution— Clapper-clawing 

Circumlocution. — The Circumlocution Office was . . . the 
most important Department under government. No 
public business of any kind could possibly be done at 
any time without the acquiescence of the Circumlocution 
Office. Its finger was in the largest public pie, and in 
the smallest public tart. It was equally impossible to 
do the plainest right and to undo the plainest wrong 
without the express authority of the Circumlocution 
Office. . . . Whatever was required to be done, the 
Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the pub- 
lic departments in the art of perceiving — How not to 
do it. Dickens, Little Dorrit, x 

Citizen. — The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic 
of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his 
weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall 
do his share in the work that each generation of us finds 
ready to hand. 1 

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech before the New 
York Chamber of Commerce, November n, 1902 

Civet. — I cannot talk with civet in the room, 
A fine puss gentleman that 's all perfume. 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 283, 284 

Civic. — Ring out false pride in place and blood, 
The civic slander and the spite. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 6 

Civil. The intestine shock 

And furious close of civil butchery. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 1 

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Prologue 

Civilizes. — The sex whose presence civilizes ours. 

Cowper, Conversation, line 254 

Clanging. — Trailing like a wounded duck, working out her 
soul; 
Clanging like a smithy-shop after every roll; 
Just a funnel and a mast lurching through the spray — 
So we threshed the "Bolivar" out across the Bay! 

Kipling, Ballad of the Bolivar, st. 4 

Clapper-clawing.' — Have always been at daggers-drawing, 
And one another clapper -clawing. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, lines 79, 80 

1 The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeav- 
our, ready for a hero's deeds, . . . and in this world doing all that in him 
lies, so that when death conies he may feel that mankind is in some degree 
better because he has lived. 

Theodore Roosevelt, Sp. bef. Y. M. C. A., Dec. 30, 1900 



Claret — Clock 55 

Claret. — The claret smooth, red as the lips we press 
In sparkling fancy, while we drain the bowl. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, lines 703, 704 

Classes. — I have seen some nations like o'erloaded asses 
Kick off their burthens — meaning the high classes. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xi, st. 84 

Classic. — Still I seem to tread on classic ground. 

Addison, Letter from Italy, line 12 

Clay. — "She is dead!" they said to him. "Come away; 
Kiss her! and leave her! — thy love is clay! " 

Sir Edwin Arnold, She and He, st. 1 

Some must follow, and some command, 
Though all are made of clay. 

Longfellow, Keramos, st. 1 

Clean. — Let your hands and your conscience 
Be honest and clean; 
Scorn to touch or to think of 

The thing that is mean; 
But hold on to the pure 

And the right with firm grip, 
And though hard be the task, 
"Keep a stiff upper lip!" 

Phoebe Cary, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, st. 3 

Cleanliness. — Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. 

Wesley, Sermon on Dress 

Clergy. — The clergy have played the part of the fly-wheel in 
our modern civilization. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, i 

Climb. — Fain would I climb but that I fear to fall. 1 

Raleigh, Line Written on Window of Queen 

Elizabeth' s Pavilion 

To climb steep hills 
Requires slow pace at first. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 1 

Clock. — From that chamber, clothed in white, 
The bride came forth on her wedding night; 
There, in that silent room below, 
The dead lay in his shroud of snow; 
And in the hush that followed the prayer, 
Was heard the old clock on the stair, — 
' ' For ever — never ! 
Never — for ever! " 
Longfellow, The Old Clock on the Stairs, st. 7 

1 If thy mind fail thee, do not climb at all. 

Queen Elizabeth, Line Written Beneath Raleigh's Inscription 



56 Clock — Coarse 

Orlando. There's no clock in the forest. 

Rosalind. Then there is no true lover in the forest; 
else sighing every minute and groaning every hour would 
detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, a 

Cloister. — For aye to be in shady cloister mewed, 
To live a barren sister all your life, 
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon 1 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, i, i 

Cloud. There does a sable cloud 

Turn forth her silver lining on the night. 

Milton, Comus, lines 223, 224 

Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud that 's almost in 

shape of a camel? 2 
Polonius. By the mass, and 't is like a camel, indeed. 
Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel. 
Polonius. It is backed like a weasel. 
Hamlet. Or like a whale. 
Polonius. Very like a whale. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Can such things be, 
Arid overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder? 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Clouds. — I saw two clouds at morning, 
Tinged with the rising sun; 
And in the dawn they floated on, 
And mingled into one. 

J. G. C. Brainard, Epithalamium, st. 1 

Coaches. — What are we . . . but coaches? . . . Our pas- 
sions are the horses, and rampant animals, too. . . . 
We start from The Mother's Arms, and we run to The 
Dust Shovel. Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, viii 

Coarse. Thou shalt lower to his level day by day, 

What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize 
with clay. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 45, 46 

1 1 was not good enough for man, 

And so am given to God. Kingsley, The Ugly Princess, st. 4 

2 Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; 
A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, 
A towered citadel, a pendent rock, 
A forked mountain, or blue promontory 
With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, 
And mock our eyes with air: . . . 
That which is now a horse, even with a thought 
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, 
As water is in water. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 14 [12] 



Coat — Coliseum 57 

Coat. — There 's a hole made in your best coat. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 5 

Cobwebs. — And with as delicate a hand, 
Could twist as tough a rope of sand; 
And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull 
That 's empty when the moon is full ; 
Such as take lodgings in a head 
That 's to be let unfurnished. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 157-162 

Cock. — Bernardo. It was about to speak when the cock 
crew. 
Horatio. And then it started like a guilty thing 
Upon a fearful summons. 1 — ■ Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 1 

The early village cock 
Hath twice done salutation to the morn. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 3 

Cockle. — How should I your true love know 
From another one? 
By his cockle hat and staff, 

And his sandal shoon. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Coffee. — Coffee, which makes the politician wise, 

And see through all things with his half -shut eyes. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii, lines 117, 118 

Cold. — For this relief much thanks : 't is bitter cold, 

And I am sick at heart. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 1 

I had a true-love, none so dear, 

And a friend both leal and tried : 
I had a cask of good old beer, 

And a gallant horse to ride. 

My lady fell to shame and hell, 

And with her took my friend ; 
My cask ran sour, my horse went lame, 

So alone in the cold I end. 

Lord De Tabley, Fortune's Wheel, st. 1, 3 

Coliseum. — While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; 
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 
And when Rome falls — the world. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 145 

J The cock he crew; the fiends they flew 
From the voice of the morning away. 

Southey, The Old Woman of Berkeley, st. 27 



58 Collar — Columbia 

Collar. — His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 
Showed him the gentleman and scholar. 

Burns, The Twa Dogs, st. 3 

Cologne. — The river Rhine, it is well known, 
Doth wash your city of Cologne; 
But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine 
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? 

S. T. Coleridge, Cologne, lines 7-10 

Colonel. — I personally wish to be appointed colonel 

. . . ; and this regardless of whether he can tell the 

exact shade of Julius Caesar's hair. — Abraham Lincoln, 

Note to Secretary Stanton, November 11, 1863 

Colossus. — Why, man, he doth bestride the world 
Like a Colossus, and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, i, 2 

Colour. — Deem our nation brutes no longer, 
Till some reason ye shall find 
Worthier of regard, and stronger 

Than the colour of our kind. 
Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings 

Tarnish all your boasted powers, 

Prove that you have human feelings 

Ere you proudly question ours. 

Cowper, The Negro's Complaint, st. 7 

Colours. — Stood for his country's glory fast, 
And nailed her colours to the mast. 1 

Scott, Marmion, Introd. to Canto i 

Colt. — Your colt's tooth is not cast yet. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 3 

Columbia. — Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, 

The queen of the world, and the child of the skies! 

Timothy Dwight, Columbia, st. 1 

Hail, Columbia! happy land! 
Hail, ye heroes, heaven-born band! 

Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause! 

Joseph Hopkinson, Hail, Columbia! st. 1 

1 Through childhood, through manhood, 

Through life to the end, 
Struggle bravely and stand 

By your colours, my friend. 
Only yield when you must; 

Never "give up the ship," 
But fight on to the last 

"With a stiff upper lip! " Phojbe Cary, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, st. 4 



Column— Commonwealth 59 

Column. — Where London's column, pointing at the skies, 
Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 339, 340 

Comb. — To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, i, 1 

Come. — Come in the evening, or come in the morning, 

Come when you 're looked for, or come without warning, 
Kisses and welcome you '11 find here before you, 
And the oftener you come here the more I '11 adore you! 
T. O. Davis, The Welcome, st. 1 

That it should come to this! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

Comfort. That comfort comes too late; 

.'T is like a pardon after execution. 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

Commandments. — Old as the Ten Commandments. 

Kipling, Cleared, st. 12 

Could I come near your beauty with my nails, 
I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, i, 3 

Commerce. — Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of 
magic sails, 
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly 
bales. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 121, 122 

Common. — I am not in the roll of common men. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

,'Tis the common lot; 
In this shape, or in that, has Fate entailed, 
The mother's throes on all of woman born, 
Not more the children than sure heirs of pain. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 238-241 

Commonwealth. — An independent, peaceful, law-abiding, 
well-governed, and prosperous commonwealth; ... a 
state without king or nobles; ... a church without a 
bishop; ... a people governed by grave magistrates 
which it had selected, and equal laws which it had 
framed. 

Rufus Choate, Address before the New England 

Association, December, 1843 

1 "After dying all reprieve's too late." 

Dryden, Song, "Fair, Sweet, and Young," line 18 



60 Company— Congress 

Company. — Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. 
Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 3 

Comparisons. — She and comparisons are odious. 1 

Donne, Elegy VIII: The Comparison 

Compass. That trembling vassal of the Pole, 

The feeling compass, navigation's soul. 

Byron, The Island, Canto i, st. 5 

Watched the compass chase its tail like a cat at play — 
That was on the "Bolivar," south across the Bay. 

Kipling, Ballad of the Bolivar, st. 8 

Complexion. — Mislike me not for my complexion, 
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, 
To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 1 

Compromise. — They enslave their children's children who 
make compromise with sin. 

Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 9 

Conclusion. — O most lame and impotent conclusion! 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 1 

But this denoted a foregone conclusion. Ibid., iii, 3 

Confess. Confess yourself to heaven; 

Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come; 
And do not spread the compost on the weeds, 
To make them ranker. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iv, 1 

Confidence. — Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an 
aged bosom. — William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 

Speech, January 14, 1766 

Conflict. — It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and 
enduring forces. — W. H. Seward, Speech, October 25, 1858 

Congenial. — Congenial spirits part to meet again. 

Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii, st. 29 

Congress. — So, wen one 's chose to Congriss, ez soon ez he 's 
in it, 
A collar grows right round his neck in a minnit, 
An' sartin it is thet a man cannot be strict 
In bein' himself, wen he gits to the Deestrict, 
Fer a coat thet sets wal here in ole Massachusetts, 
Wen it gits on to Washin'ton, somehow askew sets. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, iv, lines 39-44 

Comparisons are odorous. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 5 



Conquer — Conscience 61 

Conquer. — Though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds, 
There's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. 

Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, i, i 

Conquered. — I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in 
the Battle of Life, — 
The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died over- 
whelmed in the strife ; 

The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the 

broken in heart, 
Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and 

desperate part. W. W. Story, Io Victis, st. i 

Conscience. That fierce thing 

They call a conscience! 1 Hood, Lamia, Scene vii 

I keep a conscience clear, 
I 've a hundred pounds a year, 
And I manage to exist and to be glad, John Brown. 

Charles Mackay, John Brown, st. 4 

What conscience dictates to be done, 

Or warns me not to do, 
This, teach me more than hell to shun, 

That, more than heaven pursue. 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 4 

Conscience is but [For conscience is] a word that cowards 

use, 
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 3 

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has 
with politics. R. B. Sheridan, The Duenna, ii, 4 



1 With his departing breath, 
A form shall hail him at the gates of death, 
The spectre Conscience, — shrieking through the gloom, 
Man, we shall meet again beyond the tomb. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, st. 10 

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 

And thus the native hue of resolution 

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, 

And enterprises of great pith and moment 

With this regard their currents turn awry 

And lose the name of action. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! 



My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
Arid every tongue brings in a several tale, 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 3 



62 Conscience — Cookery 

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience 
in everything. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, II, xvii; Sermon xxvii 

Consent. — And whispering "I will ne'er consent," consented. 
Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 117 

Considering. — "I am pretty well, considering." Mrs. Pip- 
chin always used that form of words. It meant, con- 
sidering her virtues, sacrifices, and so forth. 

Dickens, Dombey and Son, xi 

Consistency. — He's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf; 
But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, — 
He 's ben true to one party, — an' thet is himself. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, iii, st. 3 

Constable. Thou hast 

Out-run the constable at last. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, iii, lines 1367, 1368 

Constant. I am constant as the northern star, 

Of whose true-fixed and resting quality 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, iii, 1 

Content. — Happy the man that, when his day is done, 
Lies down to sleep with nothing of regret — 
The battle he has fought may not be won — 
The fame he sought be just as fleeting yet; 
Folding at last his hands upon his breast, 

Happy is he, if hoary and forespent, 
He sinks into the last, eternal rest, 

Breathing these only words: "I am content." 

Eugene Field, Contentment, st. 1 

Contentment. — The noblest mind the best contentment has. 
Spenser, Faerie Qtieene, Canto i, st. 35 

Conversation. — When you stick on conversation's burrs, 
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 45 

Conversations. Conversations, dull and dry, 

Embellished with — He said, and So said I. 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 211, 212 

Cook. — 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 2 

Cookery. — But his neat cookery ! he cut our roots 
In characters, 

And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick 
And he her dieter. Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 2 



Cooks— Cornishmen 63 

Cooks. — We may live without poetry, music, and art ; 

We may live without conscience, and live without heart; 
We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; 
But civilized man cannot live without cooks. 
He may live without books, — what is knowledge but 

grieving? 
He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving? 
He may live without love, — what is passion but pining? 
But where is the man that can live without dining? 

Owen Meredith, Lucile, II, xix 

Cooks must live by making tarts, 
And wits by making verses. 

Praed, Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine, st. 2 

Copies. — We took him setting of boys' copies. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2 

Copper. — All in a hot and copper sky, 
The bloody sun, at noon, 
Right up above the mast did stand, 
No bigger than the moon. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 111-114 

Corinth. — The khan and the pachas are all at their post ; 
The vizier himself at the head of the host. 
When the culverin's signal is fired, then on; 
Leave not in Corinth a living one — 
A priest at her altars, a chief in her halls, 
A hearth in her mansions, a stone on her walls. 
God and the Prophet ! — Alia Hu! 
Up to the skies with that wild halloo ! 

Byron, Siege of Corinth, st. 22 

Cormorant. — Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, 
The middle tree and highest there that grew, 
Sat like a cormorant. 1 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 194-196 

Cornishmen. — By Tre,.Pol, and Pen 2 ye may know Cornish- 
men. R. S. Hawker, Gate Song of Stowe, st. 4 

1 Myself sate like a cormorant once 
Upon the Tree of Knowledge. Southey, The Devil's Walk, st. 14 

2 What! will they scorn Tre, Pol, and Pen, 

And shall Trelawney die? R. S. Hawker, Song of the Western Men 

A good sword and a trusty hand, 

A merry heart and true, 
King James's men shall understand 

What Cornish lads can do. 
And have they fixed the where and when, 

And shall Trelawney die? 
Then twenty thousand Cornishmen 
Will know the reason why! 

R. S. Hawker, Song of the Western Men, st. j 



64 Corporations — Country 

Corporations. — Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be 

outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. 

Sir Edward Coke, io King's Bench Reports, 32 

Corruption. Most base is he who, 'neath the shade 

Of Freedom's ensign plies Corruption's trade. 1 

T. Moore, Corruption 

Corruption wins not more than honesty. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Corsair. — He left a corsair's name to other times, 
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto iii, st. 24 

Coughs. — Coughs are ungrateful things. You find one out 
in the cold, take it up and nurse it and make everything 
of it, dress it up warm, give it all sorts of balsams and 
other food it likes, and carry it round in your bosom as 
if it were a miniature lapdog. And by-and-by its little 
bark grows sharp and savage, and — confound the 
thing! — ■ you find it is a wolf's whelp that you have got 
there, and he is gnawing in the breast where he has been 
nestling so long. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, vi 

Counsel. I pray thee, cease thy counsel, 

Which falls into mine ears as profitless 
As water in a sieve. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Country. — To be suspected, thwarted, and withstood, 
E'en when he labours for his country's good. 

Cowper, Table Talk, lines 141, 142 

God made the county, and man made the town. 2 

Cowper, The Task: The Sofa, line 749 

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be 
abroad. 3 

George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 2 

1 That party-coloured mass which nought can warm 
But rank Corruption's heat — whose quickened swarm 
Spread their light wings in Bribery's golden sky, 
Buzz for a period, lay their eggs, and die; 
That greedy vampire which from Freedom's tomb 
Comes forth with all the mimicry of bloom 
Upon its lifeless cheek and sucks and drains 

A people's blood to feed its putrid veins! T. Moore, Corruption 

2 God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. 

Cowley, Essay V: The Garden 
3 True patriots all; for, be it understood, 
We left our country for our country's good. 

G. Barrington, Prologue to a Play Performed by 

Convicts in New South Wales 



Country — Courtesy 65 

My country! 't is of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee I sing; 1 
Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the Pilgrims' pride, 
From every mountain-side 

Let freedom ring. S. F. Smith, America, st. i 

Courage. 'Tis true that we are in great danger; 

The greater therefore should our courage be. 2 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, i 

Court. — A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse. 
Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Pari II, v, i 

Courtesies. — Since when I have been debtor to you for 
courtesies, which I will be ever to pay and yet pay 
still. Shakespeare, Cymbeline, i, 4 [5] 

Courtesy. — I am the very pink of courtesy. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

1 Our country! in her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be 
in the right; but our country, right or wrong. 

S. Decatur, Toast at Norfolk, April, 18 16 
There is a land of every land the pride, 
Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; 
Where brighter suns dispense serener light, 
And milder moons emparadise the night; 
A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, 
Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, st. 1 
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 

This is my own, my native land! 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, 
As home his footsteps he hath turned, 
From wandering on a foreign strand! 
If such there breathe, go, mark him well; 
For him no minstrel raptures swell; 
High though his titles, proud his name, 
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; 
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, 
The wretch, concentred all in self, 
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, 
And, doubly dying, shall go down 
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.* 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi, st. 6 
Who is here so vile that will not love his country? 

Shakespeare, Julius Casar, iii, 2 
2 Courage, then! what cannot be avoided 
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, v, 4 
Courage mounteth with occasion. Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 

* Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead. Pope, Odyssey, V, line 402 



66 Courtier — Crispian 

Courtier. — Sir, I have lived a courtier all my days, 
And studied men, their manners, and their ways; 
And have observed this useful maxim still, 
To let my betters always have their will. 
Nay, if my lord affirmed that black was white, 
My word was this, Your honour 's in the right. 

Pope, January and May, lines 156-161 

Coward. — When all the blandishments of life are gone, 
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. 

Dr. George Sewell, The Suicide, 

from Martial, XI, Epistle 56 

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 
Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch 
Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. 

John Tobin, The Honeymoon, ii, 1 

Cowards. — Cowards die many times before their deaths; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Shakespeare, Julius Cazsar, ii, 2 

A plague of all cowards! 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Craft. — Built for freight, and yet for speed, 
A beautiful and gallant craft. 

Longfellow, Building of the Ship, st. 4 

Crazed. — Crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 28 

Creed. — Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 107 

Cricket. — The cricket on the hearth. 1 

Milton, II Penseroso, line 82 

Crime. Many a crime deemed innocent on earth 

Is registered in heaven. Cowper, The Task: 

Winter Walk at Noon, lines 439, 440 

A mighty yearning, like the first 
Fierce impulse unto crime! 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 26 

Crispian. — This day is called the feast of Crispian : 
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named, 
And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 3 

1 Crickets sing at the oven's mouth. — Shakespeare, Pericles, iii, Prologue 



Critic — Crowd 67 

Critic. — Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit; 

Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit; 

Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, 

And stand a critic, hated yet caressed. 1 Byron, 

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines 71-74 

Critical. — I am nothing, if not critical. 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 1 

Cross. — Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, 
Not she denied him with unholy tongue, 
She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, 
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. 

E. S. Barrett, Woman, i 

The cross that our own hands fashion is the heaviest 
— eross of all. K. E. Conway, 

The Heaviest Cross of All, st. 1 
No cross, — no crown. 

Hon. Mrs. Charles Hobart, 

The Changed Cross, st. 14 

Those holy fields 
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet 
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed 
For our advantage on the bitter cross. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 1 

Crow. — You and I must pull a crow. 2 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, line 500 

Crowd. — We met, — - 'twas in a crowd. 3 ' 

T. H. Bayly, We Met 



x As soon 
Seek roses in December, ice in June; 
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; 
Believe a woman, or an epitaph, 
Or any other thing that's false, before 
You trust in critics who themselves are sore. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines 75-80 
Nature fits all her children with something to do, 
He who would write and. can't write, can surely review, 
— Garrrsgf up a small booth as critic and sell us his 
Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies. 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 1785-1788 
Did some more sober critic come abroad; 
If wrong, I smiled; if right, I kissed the rod. 
Pains, reading, study, are their just pretence, 
. And all they want is spirit, taste, and sense. 
^ Commas and points they set exactly right, 
1 And 't were a sin to rob them of their mite. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 157-162 

2 We '11 pluck a crow together. — Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, iii, 1 

3 We met, — 't was in a mob. — Parody by Hood. 



68 Crowd — Cup 

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, 1 
Their sober wishes never learned to stray; 2 

Along the cool, sequestered vale of life 

They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 20 

Crown. — Upon the summit of my crown 
I have a trifling patch; 
A little white amidst the brown, 
An opening in the thatch. 

H. S. Leigh, The Sword of Damocles, st. 5 

Young Jamie lo'ed me weel, and sought me for his bride; 
But saving a croun he had naething else beside : 
To make the croun a pund, young Jamie gaed to sea; 
And the croun and the pund were baith for me. 

Lady Anne Lindsay, Atild Robin Gray, st. 2 

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, hi, 1 

Cruel. — I must be cruel, only to be kind. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Crutch. — The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, 
Sat by his fire, and talked the night away; 
Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, 
Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. 
Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 10 

Cry. — Oh ! would I were dead now, 
Or up in my bed now, 
To cover my head now, 
And have a good cry! 

Hood, A Table of Errata, st. 15 

I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel 
and to cry like a woman ; but I must comfort the weaker 
vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself coura- 
geous to petticoat. — Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 4 

Cup. — Then fill a fair and honest cup, and bear it straight 
to me; 
The goblet hallows all it holds, whate'er the liquid be; 
And may the cherubs on its face protect me from the sin, 
That dooms one to those dreadful words, — "My dear, 
where have you been ? ' ' 

Holmes, On Lending a Punch-Bowl, st. 13 

1 Far from gay cities and the ways of men. 

Pope, The Odyssey, XIV, line 410 

2 Their wants but few, their wishes all confined. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, st. 17 



Cup— Curtain 69 

The cup of water in His name. 

Longfellow, Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain 

Fill the cup and fill the can, 

Have a rouse before the morn; 
Every moment dies a man, 

Every moment one is born. 

Tennyson, The Vision of Sin, lines 95-98 

Cupid. — Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, i, 1 

Curfew. — The curfew tolls the knell of parting day; 
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; 
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
And leaves the world to darkness and to me 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. ± 

Current. We must take the current when it serves, 

Or lose our ventures. — Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Curs. — You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate 
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize 
As the dead carcasses of unburied men 
That do corrupt my air, I banish you! 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iii, 3 

Curse. — Why, be this juice the growth of God, who dare 
Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a snare? 

A blessing, we should use it, should we not? 
And if a curse — why, then, who set it there? 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 61 

Thou shalt seek Death to release thee in vain; 
Thou shalt live in thy pain, while Kehama shall reign, 
With a fire in thy heart, and a fire in thy brain; 
And Sleep shall obey me, and visit thee never, 
And the curse shall be on thee for ever and ever. 

Southey, Curse of Kehama, II 

Cursed. — "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! 
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." l 

Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Well, ii, st. 7 

Curtain. — Draw this curtain, and let 's see your picture. 2 

Shakespeare, Troihis and Cressida, iii, 2 

I 0'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; 

A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, 

And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, 

The place is haunted. Hoon, The Haunted House, i, st. 8 

2 We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, i, 5 



70 Curtain — Dalliance 

The play is done; the curtain drops, 

Slow falling to the prompter's bell: 
A moment yet the actor stops, 

And looks around, to say farewell. 

Thackeray, The End of the Play, st. i 

Custom. Though I am native here 

And to the manner born, it is a custom 
More honoured in the breach than in the observance. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 4 

A thing of custom. 1 Shakespeare, Macbeth, hi, 4 

Customs. New customs, 

Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are followed. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 3 

Cut. — This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

Cynic. — The cynic is one who' never sees a good quality in a 
man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human 
owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for 
vermin, and never seeing noble game. H. W. Beecher, 

Lectures to Young Men, The Portrait Gallery, The Cynic 

Cynosure. — The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. 

Milton, L' Allegro, line 80 

Dagger. — Is this a dagger which I see before me, 

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. 

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 

To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but 

A dagger of the mind, a false creation, 

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 1 
This is the air-drawn dagger. Ibid., iii, 4 

Daggers. Infirm of purpose! 

Give me the daggers. Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 2 

Dalliance. — Look thou be true: do not give dalliance 
Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw 
To the fire i' the blood : be more abstemious, 
Or else, good-night your vow! 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iv, 1 

1 Hamlet. Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at 
grave-making? 

Horatio. Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. 

Hamlet. 'Tise'enso' the hand of little employment hath the dain- 
tier sense. Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 



Dame — Dangerous 7 1 

Dame. When my old wife lived, upon 

This day she was both pantler, butler, cook, 
Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all; 
Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here, 
At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle; 
On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire 
With labour and the thing she took to quench it, 
She would to each one sip. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Damn. — Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 201-204 

Damnation. — Let not this weak, unknowing hand 
Presume thy bolts to throw, 
And deal damnation round the land, 
On each I judge thy foe. 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 7 

The deep damnation of his taking-off. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Damnations. — There 's a great text in Galatians, 
Once you trip on it, entails 
Twenty-nine distinct damnations, 
One sure, if another fails. 
R. Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, st. 7 

Dance. — On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; 
No_ sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, 
To~chase the glowing hours with flying feet. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 22 

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 2 

Dancing. — A very merry, dancing, drinking, 
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. 

Dryden, The Secular Masque, lines 44, 45 

Many a youth, and many a maid, 
Dancing in the chequered shade; 
And young and old come forth to play 
On a sunshine holy-day. — Milton, U Allegro, lines 95-98 

You and I are past our dancing days. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 5 

Dangerous. Though I am not splenitive and rash, 

Yet have I something in me [in me something] dangerous, 
Which let thy wiseness [wisdom] fear. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 



72 Daniel— Dash 

Daniel. — Shylock. A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! 

wise young judge, how I do honour thee! 

Gratiano. A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! 
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip. 

A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! 

1 thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, i 

Danube. Never 

Can I forget that night in June, 
Adown the Danube river. 

H. Aide, The Danube River, st. i 

Dare. — I dare do all that may become a man; 1 

Who dares do more is none. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Daring. The fierce native daring which instils 

The stirring memory of a thousand years. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 26 

Dark. — It was so dark, Hal, that thou could 'st not see thy 
hand. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Darkness. — Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who 
Before us passed the door of Darkness through, 

Not one returns to tell us of the Road, 
Which to discover we must travel too. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 64 

Yet from those flames 
No light, but rather darkness visible. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 62, 63 

Ring out the darkness of the land. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 8 

Darling. — 'T is no spell of enchantment, no magical art, 
But the way he says "Darling" that goes to my heart! 
Phcebe Cary, The Old Man's Darling, st. 2 

Darlings. — The wealthy curled darlings of our nation. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 2 

Dash. — Six precious souls, and all agog 
To dash through thick and thin. 

Cowper, John Gilpin, st. 10 

1 What man dare, I dare: 
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 



Dashest— Daylight 73 

Dashest. — And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray 
And howling, to his gods, where haply lies 
His petty hope in some near port or bay, 
And dashest him again to earth : — there let him lay. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 180 

Daughter. — There came to port last Sunday night 
The queerest little craft. 
Without an inch of rigging on; 

I looked and looked — and laughed ! 
It seemed so curious that she 

Should cross the Unknown water, 

And moor herself within my room — 

My daughter! O, my daughter! 1 

George W. Cable, The New Arrival, st. i 

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daugh- 
ter's heart. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 94 

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God. 

Wordsworth, Ode to Duty, st. 1 

Day. — Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky. 

George Herbert, Virtue, st. 1 

The gilded car of day. Milton, Comus, line 95 

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven 

Or ever I had seen that day ! — Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

The livelong day. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, i, 1 

" I 've lost a day ! " 2 — the prince who nobly cried, 
Had been an emperor without his crown. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 99, 100 

Daylight. — Noiselessly as the daylight 
Comes when the night is done, 
And the crimson streak on ocean's cheek 
Grows into the great sun. 

C. F. Alexander, Burial of Moses, st. 2 

1 My daughter! O, my daughter! 

Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter, st. 13; Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 
2 Lost! lost! lost! 

A gem of countless price, 
Cut from the living rock, 

And graved in Paradise; 
Set round with three times eight 

Large diamonds, clear and bright, 
And each with sixty smaller ones, 

All changeful as the light. L. H. Sigourney, Advertisement 

of a Lost Day, st. 1 



74 Days — Dead 

Days. — Of all the days that 's in the week 
I dearly love but one day — 
And that 's the day that conies betwixt 

A Saturday and Monday; 
For then I 'm dressed all in my best 

To walk abroad with Sally; 

She is the darling of my heart, 

And she lives in our alley. 

Henry Carey, Sally in Our Alley, st. 4 

The best of all ways 
To lengthen our days, 
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear! 

T. Moore, The Young May Moon, st. 1 

Come hither lads and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, 

Of the wonderful days a-coming, when all shall be better 

than well. W. Morris, The Day Is Coming, st. 1 

We have seen better days. [Shakespeare, 

As You Like It, ii, 7; Timon of Athens, iv, 2 

Jesus, [Oh,] the days that we have seen! 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

Deacon. — The Deacon swore, as deacons do, 
With an "I dew vum," or an "I tell yeou." 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 4 

Dead. — Faithful friends! It lies, I know, 
Pale and white and cold as snow; 
And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!'' 
Weeping at the feet and head, 
I can see your falling tears, 
I can hear your sighs and prayers; 
Yet I smile and whisper this, — 
"7 am not the thing you kiss; 
Cease your tears, and let it lie; 
It was mine, it is not I." 

Sir Edwin Arnold, After Death in Arabia, st. 2 

All that tread 
The globe are but a handful to the tribes 
That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings 
Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, 
Or lose thyself in the continuous woods' 
Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound 

1 Eyah! those days, those days! — Kipling, The Courting of Dinah Shadd 
That time, — O times! Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

We '11 talk of sunshine and of song, 

And summer days, when we were young, 
Sweet childish days, that were as long 

As twenty days are now. Wordsworth, To a Butterfly, st. 2 



Dead 75 

Save his own dashings, — yet the dead are there! 
And millions in those solitudes, since first 
The flight of years began, have laid them down 
In their last sleep, — the dead reign there alone! 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, lines 48-57 

The light has come upon the dark benighted way. 
Dead, your Majesty! Dead, my Lords and gentlemen! 
Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every 
order! Dead, men and women, born with heavenly 
compassion in your hearts! And dying thus around us 
every day! Dickens, Bleak House, xlvii 

When once the Fates have cut the mortal thread, 

The man as much to all intents is dead, 

Who dies to-day, and will as long be so, 

As he who died a thousand years ago. Dryden, 

Translation of Lucretius, III, lines 318-321 

Twelve hundred million men are spread 

About this earth, and I and You 
Wonder, when You and I are dead, 

What will those luckless millions do? 

Kipling, The Last Department 

Dead he lay among his books! 
The peace of God was in his looks. 

Longfellow, Bayard Taylor, st. 1 

Some 
Have long been dead who think themselves alive, 
Because not buried. 

Longfellow, Michael Angelo, III, i 

Nothing in Nature's aspect intimated 
That a great man was dead. 

Longfellow, Warden of the Cinque Ports, st. 12 

"Odious! in woollen! 't would a saint provoke!" 
(Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), 
"No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace 
Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face: 
One would not, sure, be frightful when one 's dead — 
And — Betty — give this cheek a little red." 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle i, lines 246-251 

Dead, for a ducat, dead! Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

He is dead and gone, lady, 

He is dead and gone; 
At his head a grass-green turf, 

At his heels a stone. Ibid., iv, 5 



76 Dead— Death 

Come not, when I am dead, 

To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, 
To trample round my fallen head, 

And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. 

Tennyson, Fragment, st. i 

Home they brought her warrior dead ; 

She nor swooned nor uttered cry: 
All her maidens, watching, said, 

"She must weep or she will die." 

Tennyson, The Princess, v 

Nothing is dead, but that which wished to die ; 
Nothing is dead, but wretchedness and pain ; 
Nothing is dead, but what encumbered, galled, 
Blocked up the pass, and barred from real life. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VI, lines 41-44 

Dead Sea. The apples on the Dead Sea's shore, 

All ashes to the taste. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, 34 

Death. — Weep awhile, if ye are fain, — 
Sunshine still must follow rain; 
Only not at death, — for death, 
Now I know, is that first breath 
Which our souls draw when we enter 
Life, which is of all life centre. 1 

Sir Edwin Arnold, After Death in Arabia, st. 6 

I would tell you, darling, if I were dead, 

And 'twere your hot tears upon my brow shed. 

You should not ask, vainly, with streaming eyes, 
Which in Death's touch was the chiefest surprise. 

What a strange delicious amazement is Death, 
To be without body and breathe without breath. 

Sir Edwin Arnold, She and He, st. 27, 29, 35 

There was another heavy sound, 

A hush and then a groan; 
And darkness swept across the sky — 

The work of death was done! 

W. E. Aytoun, The Execution of Montrose, st. 18 



1 There is no death! What seems so is transition; 

This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 

Whose portal we call death. Longfellow, Resignation, st. 5 



Death 77 

Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour 
aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth it. 

Bacon, Essay II: On Death 

Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark. 

Ibid. 

Like the hand which ends a dream, 
Death, with the might of his sunbeam, 
Touches the flesh, and the soul awakes. 

R. Browning, The Flight of the Duchess, xv 

What is death but parting breath? 

Burns, Macpherson's Farewell, st. 2 

For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast, 
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; 
And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, 
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still. 
Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 3 

Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, 

Death came with friendly care; 
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, 

And bade it blossom there. 

S. T. Coleridge, Epitaph on an Infant 

The child who enters life comes not with knowledge or 

intent, 
So those who enter death must go as little children sent. 
Nothing is known. But I believe that God is overhead; 
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. 

Mary Mapes Dodge, The Two Mysteries, st. 5 

The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. 1 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, line 2164 

He trumped Death's ace for me that day, 
And I 'm not goin' back on him! 

John Hay, Banty Tim, st. 7 

Death rides on every passing breeze, 

He lurks in every flower. — R. Heber, At a Funeral, st. 3 

Death saw two players playing at cards, 

But the game wasn't worth a dump, 
For he quickly laid them flat with a spade, 

To wait for the final trump! 2 Hood, Death's Ramble 



1 And, as the cock crew, those who stood before 
The Tavern shouted — "Onen then the door! 

You know how little while we have to stay, 
And, once departed, may return no more." 

Omar Khayyam, Rub&iydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 3 

2 There card-players wait till the last trump be played. 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, line 1659 



78 Death 

Death — Continued 

But why do I talk of death? 

That phantom of grisly bone, 
I hardly fear his terrible shape, 

It seems so like my own — 

It seems so like my own, 

Because of the fasts I keep ; 

God ! that bread should be so dear, 
And flesh and blood so cheap! 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt, st. 5 

Ah, well, friend Death, good friend thou art: 

I shall be free when thou art through. 
Take all there is — take hand and heart : 

There must be somewhere work to do. 

Helen Fiske Jackson, Habeas Corpus, ad finem 

Death stands above me, whispering low 

I know not what into my ear: 
Of his strange language all I know 

Is, there is not a word of fear. 1 

W. S. Landor, Last Fruit off an Old Tree, xcv 

Death, thou 'rt a cordial old and rare : 
Look how compounded, with what care! 
Time got his wrinkles reaping thee 
Sweet herbs from all antiquity. 

Then, Time, let not a drop be spilt : 
Hand me the cup whene'er thou wilt; 
'Tis thy rich stirrup-cup to me; 

1 '11 drink it down right smilingly. 

Lanier, The Stirrup-Cup, st. 1-3 

1 Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, 

The mist in my face, 
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote 
I am nearing the place 



Where he stands, the Arch Fear, in a visible form, 

Yet the strong man must go- 
For the journey is done and the summit attained, 

And the barriers fall, 
Though a battle 's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, 

The reward of it all. 
I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, 

And bade me creep past. 
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers 

The heroes of old, 
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears 

Of pain, darkness, and cold. 
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, 

The black minute's at end, 
And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave, 

Shall dwindle, shall blend, 
Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, 

Then alight. R. Browning, Prospice, lines 1-26 



Death 79 

Death takes us by surprise, 

And stays our hurrying feet; 
The great design unfinished lies, 
Our fives are incomplete. 

Longfellow, Charles Stunner, st. 5 
Our years are fleet, 
And, to the weary, death is sweet. 

Longfellow, Keramos, st. 15 
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death. 

Longfellow, The Reaper and the Flowers, st. 1 
Death the Ploughman wanders in all lands, 
And to the last of earth his furrow stands. 

Edwin Markham, The Last Furrow, st. 1 

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life, 

I shall find one. Massinger, A Very Woman, v, 4 

Death's but one more to-morrow. S. W. Mitchell, 

Of One Who Seemed to Have Failed, line 1 

It is curious how forgetful we are of death, how little 

we think that we are dying daily, and that what we call 

life is really death, and death the beginning of a higher 

life. Max Muller, Letter to Miss Marv Mailer, 

April 18, 1883, Life, by His Wife, II, xxvi 
Tell me, my soul, can this be death? 

Pope, Dying Christian to His Soul, st. 2 
Now, men of death, work forth your will, 
For I can suffer and be still; 
And come he slow, or come he fast, 
It is but death who comes at last. 

Scott, Marmion, ii, st. 30 
Is it sin 
To rush into the secret house of death, 
Ere death dare come to us? 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iv- 15 [13] 
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, 
Which hurts, and is desired. Ibid. 

Who would [Who 'd] fardels bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 
But that the dread of something after death, 
The undiscovered country from whose bourne 
No traveller returns, puzzles the will 
And makes us rather bear those ills we have 
Than fly to others that we know not of? 1 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

1 A secret prepossession 
To plunge with all your fears — but where? 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiv, st. 6 



8o Death 

Death— Continued 

This fell sergeant, Death, 
Is strict in his arrest. Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 2 

It seems to me most strange that men should fear; 
Seeing that death, a necessary end, 
Will come when it will come. 

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, ii, 2 

Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 1 

Warwick. So bad a death argues a monstrous life. 

King. Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 1 
Close up his eyes and draw the curtains close; 
And let us all to meditation. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii, 3 

Nothing can we call our own but death 
And that small model of the barren earth 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 2 

The sense of death is most in apprehension; 
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

Thy best of rest is sleep, 
And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st 
Thy death, which is no more. Ibid. 

Holy men at their death have good inspirations. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

I would fain die a dry death. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 1 

Out of the jaws of death. 2 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 4 

1 Fools and blind! 
This Czar, this emperor, this disthroned corpse, 
Lying so straightly in an icy calm 
Grander than sovereignty, was but as ye — 
No better and no worse: Heaven mend us all! 

Dinah M. Mulock Craik, The Dead Czar, st. 6 

2 Stormed at with shot and shell, 
While horse and hero fell, 
They that had fought so well 
Came through the jaws of death, 
Back from the mouth of hell, 
All that was left of them, 

Left of six hundred. — Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade, st. 5 



Death— Death-fires 81 

I could lie down like a tired child, 
And weep away the life of care 
Which I have borne, and yet must bear 

Till death like sleep might steal on me. Shelley, 

Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples, st. 4 

How wonderful is Death, 
Death and his brother Sleep ! 1 

Shelley, Queen Mab, i, st. 1 

You, proud monarchs, must obey 
And mingle with forgotten ashes, when 
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. 

J. Shirley, The Last Conqueror, st. 1 

Virtue alone has majesty in death. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, line 656 

Death is the crown of life: 
Was death denied, poor man would live in vain ; 
Was death' denied, to live would not be life; 
Was death denied, even fools would wish to die. 

Ibid., Ill, lines 527-530 

Man makes a death which Nature never made. 

Ibid., IV, line 15 

While man is growing, life is in decrease, 
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. 
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, 
As tapers waste that instant they take fire. 
1 Ibid., V, lines 717-720 

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; 
A blow, which, while it executes, alarms; 
V And startles thousands with a single fall. 

Ibid., V, lines ioik-1013 

Death-bed. — A death-bed 's a detector of the heart. 
Here tired Dissimulation drops her mask, 
Through life's grimace, that mistress of the scene. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 645-647 

Death-fires. — About, about, in reel and rout 
The death-fires danced at night; 
The water, like a witch's oils, 
Burnt green and blue and white. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 127-130 

1 Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, 
Brother to Death. S. Daniel, Sonnet liv 

Death it seemed, and not his cousin Sleep. 

Hood, Hero and Leander, st. 61 

Sleep, Death's twin-brother. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxviii, st. 1 



ioik-ioi 



82 Debating — Deceive 

Debating. — The ancient Goths . . . had ... a wise cus- 
tom of debating everything of importance . . . twice, 
— once drunk and once sober, — drunk, — that their 
councils might not want vigour; and sober, — that they 
might not want discretion. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, VI, xvii 

Debt. — What ! from his helpless creature be repaid 
Pure gold for what he lent him dross-allayed — 

Sue for a debt he never did contract, 
And cannot answer — Oh, the sorry trade! 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 79 

Poor is the man in debt. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VI, line 532 

Debts. — He that dies pays all debts. 1 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iii, 2 

Decay. — A general flavour of mild decay. 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 9 

Deceit. That is good deceit 

Which mates him first that first intends deceit. 2 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii, 1 

Deceits. — The tongues of men are full of deceits. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 2 

Deceive. — Kiss me, though you make believe; 
Kiss me, though I almost know 
You are kissing to deceive: 

Let the tide one moment flow 
Backward ere it rise and break, 
Only for poor pity's sake. 

Alice Cary, Make Believe, st. 1 

Oh, what a tangled web we weave 3 
When first we practise to deceive! 4 

Scott, Marmion, vi, 17 

'The end of life cancels all bonds. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 2 

Since . . it is impossible I should live, all debts are cleared between 
you and I. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

2 Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you — an' do it 
fust. E. N. Westcott, David H arum, Preface 

3 When one fib becomes due, as it were, you must forge another to take up 
the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably 
multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day. 

Thackeray, Vanity Fair, lxvi 

4 1 will not practise to deceive. Shakespeare, King John, i 



Deceived — Deeds 83 

Deceived. — To be deceived in your true heart's desire 
Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire ! 

John Hay, A Woman's Love, st. 1 1 

Deceiver. — Where shall the traitor rest, 

He, the deceiver, 
Who could win maiden's breast, 

Ruin and leave her? 
In the lost battle, 

Borne down by the flying, 
Where mingles war's rattle 

With groans of the dying. — Scott, Marmion, iii, st. n 

Deceivers. — Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, 
Men were deceivers ever, 1 
One foot in sea and one on shore, 
To one thing constant never. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3 

Decency. — Immodest words admit of no defence; 
For want of decency is want of sense. 

Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse 

Decide. — Once to every man and nation comes the moment 
to decide, 
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or 
evil side. Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 5 

Deed. — Macbeth. I have done the deed! 2 Didst thou not 
hear a noise? 

Lady Macbeth. I heard the owl scream and the 
crickets cry. Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 2 

One good deed dying tongueless 
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, i, 2 

Deeds. — Foul deeds will rise. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds 
Make deeds ill done [ill deeds done]! 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, 
The penalty and forfeit of my bond. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

1 Trust not a man : we are by nature false, 

Dissembling, subtle, cruel and inconstant. T. Otway, The Orphan, ii, 1 

2 A deed of dreadful note. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 2 
A deed without a name. Ibid., iv, 1 



84 Deeds— Degenerate 

Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue; 

Not soon provoked, nor, being provoked, soon calmed; 

His heart and hand both open and both free; 
\ For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; 
I Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iv, 5 

Deep. — The very deep did rot. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 123 
Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; 
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. 

Sir J. Denham, Cooper's Hill 
Rocked in the cradle of the deep 
I lay me down in peace to sleep; 
Secure I rest upon the wave, 
For thou, O Lord! hast power to save. 
I know thou wilt not slight my call, 
For thou dost mark the sparrow's fall; 
And calm and peaceful shall I sleep, 
Rocked in the cradle of the deep. 

E. H. Willard, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep, st. 1 

Deer.. — Why, let the stricken deer go weep, 
The hart ungalled play; 
For some must watch, while some must sleep, 
So [Thus] runs the world away. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Defence.— What boots it at one gate to make defence, 
And at another to let in the foe? 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 560, 561 
In cases of defence 't is best to weigh 
The enemy more mighty than he seems. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 4 

Defer. — Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, 
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. 1 

William Congreve, Letter to Lord Cobham, 

1729, lines 61, 62 

Defiance. — A cry of defiance and not of fear, 

A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, 
And a word that shall echo for evermore. 

Longfellow, Paul Revere' s Ride, st. 14 

Degenerate. — Not two strong men th' enormous weight could 
raise, 
Such men as live in these degenerate days. 

Pope, Iliad, V, lines 371, 372 

'Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer. 
Next day the fatal precedent will plead; 
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 393-392 



Deliberates — Desert 85 

Deliberates. — When love once pleads admission to our hearts 
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast), 
The woman that deliberates is lost. — Addison, Cato, iv, i 

Deliberation. With grave 

Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed 
A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat, and public care; 
And princely counsel in his face yet shone, 
Majestic, though in ruin. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, II, lines 300-305 

Demeanour. — You will find it serviceable, in the formation 
of a demeanour, if you sometimes say to yourself in com- 
pany — on entering a room, for instance — Papa, po- 
tatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism. 

Dickens, Little Dorrit, II, v 

Den. And darest thou then 

To beard the lion in his den, 

The Douglas in his hall? Scott, Marmion, vi, 14 

Depolarize. — Depolarize every fixed religious idea in the 
mind by changing the word which stands for it. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, i 

Depths. — He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, 
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffmed, and unknown. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 179 

Descent. — And made a preachment of your high descent. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 4 

Desert. — Oh! that the desert were my dwelling-place, 
With one fair spirit for my minister, 1 
That I might all forget the human race, 
And, hating no one, love but only her! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 177 

In dark Cimmerian desert. Milton, L' Allegro, line 10 

Fly to the desert, fly with me, 

Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; 

But oh! the choice what heart can doubt, 

Of tents with love or thrones without? 

T. Moore, Lalla Rookh: The Light of the Harem 

I never will desert Mr. Micawber. 

Dickens, David Copperfield, I, xii 

1 A book of verses underneath the bough, 
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and Thou 

Beside me singing in the wilderness — 
Oh, wilderness were paradise enow! 

Omar KhayyAm, Riibdiyat (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 12 



86 Deserted— Destiny 

Deserted. — Deserted, at his utmost need, 
By those his former bounty fed; 
On the bare earth exposed he lies, 
With not a friend to close his eyes. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, lines 80-83 

Desire. — From the desert I come to thee 
On a stallion shod with fire; 
And the winds are left behind 
In the speed of my desire. 

Bayard Taylor, Bedouin Song, st. 1 

Desires. — Your heart's desires be with you! 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 2 

Despairing. The daring 

Last look of despairing 
Fixed on futurity. Hood, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 16 

Desperate. — Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, 
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. 

Cowper, The Needless Alarm: Moral 

Diseases desperate grown 
By desperate appliance are relieved, 1 
Or not at all. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 3 

Despised. — Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like 
to be despised. — Isaac Bickerstaff, The Hypocrite, v, 1 

Destiny. What if thou withdraw 

In silence from the living, and no friend 
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe 
Will share thy destiny. 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, lines 58-61 
Destiny never swerves, 
Nor yields to men the helm; 
He shoots his thought, by hidden nerves, 
Throughout the solid realm. 

Emerson, The World-Soul, st. 10 
Think you I bear the shears of destiny? 
Have I commandment on the pulse of life? 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 2 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 9 

J 'Tis not amiss, ere ye 're given o'er, 
To try one desperate medicine more; 
For where your case can be no worse, 
The desp'rat'st is the wisest course. 

Butler, Hudibras, Epistle to Sidrophel, lines 5-8 
2 Love is not in our choice, but in our fate. 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, line 328 
Your marriage comes by destiny. 

Shakespeare, All 's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 



Destroyer — Devil 87 

Destroyer. — For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, 
In sombre harness mailed, 
Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, 
The rampart wall had scaled. 

He did not pause to parley or dissemble, 

But smote the Warden hoar; 
Ah! what a blow! that made all England tremble, 

And groan from shore to shore. 

Longfellow, Warden of the Cinque Ports, st. 9, n 

Devil. — Bid the devil take the hindmost. 1 

Butler, Hudibras, I, Canto ii, line 633 

Here Francis C lies. Be civil; 

The rest God knows — perhaps the Devil. 

Pope, Epitaph 
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; 
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 

Rabelais, IV, xxiv 
How then was the Devil dressed? 
Oh! he was in his Sunday's best; 
His coat was red, and his breeches were blue, 
And there was a hole where his tail came through. 

Southey, The Devil's Walk, st. 3 
And in he came with eyes of flame, 

The Devil, to fetch the dead; 
And all the church with his presence glowed 
Like a fiery furnace red. 

Southey, The Old Woman of Berkeley, st. 40 
He must needs go, that the devil drives. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. 
Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, iv, 3 
Give the devil his due. 2 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 7 
Lest the devil cross my prayer. 3 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 1 

1 This expression has become proverbial, and is used by Prior, Pope, Burns 
and others. 

2 And so give his due to the devil. 

Alexander Brome, The Holy Pedlar, st. 5 

He will give the devil his due. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 2 

3 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there; 
And 't will be found upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

Daniel Defoe, The True-born Englishman, I, lines 1-4 



88 Devil— Die 

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know 
him by his horns. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 2 

One of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself 
with courtesy. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iv, 2 

Devotion. With devotion's visage 

And pious action we do sugar o'er 
The devil himself. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

Dewlapped. — Who would believe that there were moun- 
taineers 
Dewlapped like bulls, 1 whose throats had hanging at them 
Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men 
Whose heads stood in their breasts. 2 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iii, 3 

Dial. — True as the dial to the sun, 3 
Although it be not shined upon. 

Butler, Hudibras, III, ii, lines 175, 176 

Diamond. Spots quadrangular of diamond form, 

Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, 
And spades, the emblem of untimely graves. 

Cowper, The Task: The Winter Evening, 

lines 217-219 

Diamonds. — Diamonds cut diamonds; they who will prove 
To thrive in cunning, must cure love with love. 

John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, i, 3 [1] 

Die. — It is as natural to die as to be born. 

Bacon, Essay II: On Death 

A voice within us speaks the startling word, 
"Man, thou shalt never die!" R. H.Dana, 

The Husband and Wife's Grave, lines 56, 57 

The pure, the bright, the beautiful, 

That stirred our hearts in youth, 
The impulse to a wordless prayer, 

The dreams of love and truth; 
The longings after something lost, 

The spirit's yearning cry, 
The strivings after better hopes — 

These things can never die. 

Sarah Doudney, Things That Never Die, st. 1 

1 Dewlapped like Thessalian bulls. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, iv, i 
2 Men whose heads 
Do grow beneath their shoulders. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

3 True as the needle to the pole 
Or as the dial to the sun. Barton Booth, Song 



Die 8 9 

And could we choose the time, and choose aright, 
'Tis best to die, our honour at the height, 
When we have done our ancestors no shame, 
But served our friends, and well secured our fame; 
Then should we wish our happy life to close, 
And leave no more for fortune to dispose : 
So should we make our death a glad relief 
From future shame, from sickness, and from grief. 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, lines 2364-2371 

To die is landing on some silent shore, 
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; 
E'er well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er. 

S. Garth, The Dispensary, Canto iii, lines 225-227 

To every man upon this earth 

Death cometh soon or late. 
And how can man die better 

Than facing fearful odds, 
For the ashes of his fathers, 

And the temples of his gods, 

And for the tender mother 

Who dandled him to rest, 
And for the wife who nurses 

His baby at her breast? 

Mac aula y, Horatius, st. 27, 28 

Whether I ought to die or not 

My doctors cannot quite determine; 
It 's only clear that I shall rot, 

And be, like Priam, food for vermin. 
My debts are paid; — but Nature's debt 

Almost escaped my recollection! 
Tom! we shall meet again; and yet 

I cannot leave you my direction! 

Praed, Quince, st. 13 

All that lives [live] must die, 
Passing through nature to eternity. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

A man can die but once: we owe God a death. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? 
And, live we how we can, yet die we must. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, v, 2 

As good to die and go, as die and stay. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 3 



90 Die 

Die — Continued 

The times have been, 
That, when the brains were out, the man would die, 
And there an end; but now they rise again, 
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 
And push us from our stools. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Blow, wind! come, wrack! 
At least we '11 die with harness on our back. 1 — Ibid., v, 5 

If I must die, 
I will encounter darkness as a bride, 
And hug it in mine arms. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; 

To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; 

This sensible warm motion to become 

A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit 

To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 

In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; 

To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, 

And blown with restless violence round about 

The pendent world. 2 Ibid., iii, 1 

Not though the soldier knew 

Some one had blundered: 

Theirs not to make reply, 

Theirs not to reason why, 

i Theirs but to do and die, 3 

' Into the valley of Death 

Rode the six hundred. 

Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade, st. 2 

1 Fallen from his fellow's side, 
The steed beneath is lying; 
In harness here he died, 
His only fault was dying. 

Epitaph on a Coach Horse, near the Foot of Helvellyn 

The Englishman is proud when it can be said, " He died in harness." 

Max Muller, Letter to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, , 

1888, Life, by his Wife, II, xxix 
2 Who would lose, 
Though full of pain, this intellectual being, 
Those thoughts that wander through eternity. 
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost 
In the wide womb of uncreated Night, 
Devoid of sense and motion? Milton, Paradise Lost, II, lines 146-151 

3 They went where duty seemed to call, 

They scarcely asked the reason why; 
They only knew they could but die, 
And death was not the worst of all! Whittier, Lexington, st. 5 



Die — Dimple 9' 

'T was there of just and good he reasoned strong, 
Cleared some great truth, or raised some serious song: 
There patient showed us the wise course to steer, 
A candid censor and a friend severe ; 
There taught us how to live, and (Oh, too high 
The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die. 

T. Tickell, To the Earl of Warwick, on the 

Death of Addison, lines 77-82 

The good die first, 
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust 
Burn to the socket. Wordsworth, 

The Excursion, The Wanderer, lines 504-506 

Died. — Most persons have died before they expire, — died to 
all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it 
were, the locking of the door of the already deserted man- 
sion. Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table, xi 

"I give and I devise (old Euclio said, 
And sighed) my lands and tenements to Ned." — 
"Your money, sir?" — "My money, sir, what, all? 
Why, — if I must — (then wept) I give it Paul." — 
"The manor, sir? " — "The manor! hold," he cried, 
"Not that, — I cannot part with that," — and died. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle i, lines 256-261 

Dies. — Stand, stand to your glasses, steady! 
'T is all we have left to prize : 
One cup to the dead already — 
Hurrah for the next that dies! 

Bartholomew Dowling, Revel of the Dying, st.«8 

He that dies this year is quit for the next. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

He dies, and makes no sign. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii, 3 

Digestion. — Now, good digestion wait on appetite, 

And health on both! Shakespeare. Macbeth, iii, 4 

Diminished. — Ye little stars! hide your diminished rays. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, line 282 

Dimple. — Cheek or chin, or knuckle or knee, 
Where shall the baby's dimple be? 
Where shall the angel's finger rest 
When he comes down to the baby's nest? 
Where shall the angel's touch remain 
When he awakens my babe again? J. G. Holland, 

Where Shall the Baby's Dimple Be, st. 2 



92 Dine — Disappointed 

Dine. — The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. 1 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii, lines 21, 22 

Dinner. — A dinner lubricates business. 

Lord Stowell, quoted in Boswell, 

Life of Johnson, April 15, 1781 

Dinner-bell. — That all-softening, o'erpowering knell, 
The tocsin of the soul — the dinner-bell. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto v, st. 49 

Direct. — Think it more honour to direct in chief than to be 
busy in all. Bacon, Essay XI: Of Great Place 

Directors. — However, as is usual in our city, 
They had a sort of Managing Committee, 

A board of grave, responsible Directors — 
A Secretary, good at pen and ink — 
A Treasurer, of course, to keep the chink, 
And quite an army of Collectors! 

With many of those persevering ones, 
Who mite by mite would beg a cheese! 

Hood, A Black Job, st. 8 

Dirt. Dirt? — Jacob, what is dirt? 

If matter, — why, the delicate dish that tempts 
An o'ergorged epicure, to the last morsel 
That stuffs him to the throat-gates, is no more. 

Southey, The Pig, lines 57-60 

Dirty. The last charge, — he lived 

A dirty life. Here I could shelter him 
With noble and right -reverend precedents, 
And show by sanction of authority 
That 'tis a very honourable thing 
To thrive by dirty ways. 2 Ibid., lines 49-54 

Disappointed. — What ardently I wished, I long believed, 
And, disappointed still, was still deceived. 
By expectation every day beguiled, 
Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Cowper, 

On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture, lines 38-41 

'A good, contented, well-breakfasted juryman is a capital thing to get 
hold of. Discontented or hungry jurymen . . . always find for the plaintiff. 

. . . If it 's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury 
has retired, and says, "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! 
I dine at five." . . . "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who 
ought to have dined at three, and seem more than half -disposed to stand 
out in consequence. The foreman smiles and puts up his watch: "Well, 
gentlemen, what do we say, — plaintiff or defendant? ... I rather think 
the plaintiff's the man. Dickens, Pickwick Papers, xxxiv 

2 The public path of life 
Is dirty. Young, Night Thoughts, VIII, lines 373, 374 



Disasters — Diver 93 

Disasters. — Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace 
The day's disasters in his morning face; 
Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee 
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 14 

Discontent. — Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice 
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iv, 1 

Discontent, — the nobleman's consumption. 

Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger's Tragedy, i, 1 

Discord. — From hence, let fierce contending nations know 
What dire effects from civil discord flow. 

Addison, Cato, v, 4 

Discourse. — Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. 

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, line 145 

Discretion. — Let your own discretion be your tutor. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Disease. — Ring out old shapes of foul disease. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 7 

Disobedience. — Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 1-3 

Disobey. — God bade me act for him : I dared not disobey ! 

R. Browning, Ivan Ivanovitch, line 300 

Dissemble. — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, 
But why did you kick me downstairs? 

J. P. Kemble, The Panel 

Distance. — 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, i, st. 1 

Distinguish. — He could distinguish, and divide 
A hair 'twixt south and southwest side. 

Butler,. Hudibras, I, i, lines 67, 68 

Ditch. — I will die in the last ditch. 

William, Prince of Orange, cited by Hume, 

History of England 

Diver. Are there not, dear Michal, 

Two points in the adventure of the diver, 
One — when, a beggar, he prepares to plunge, 
One — when, a prince, he rises with his pearl? 

R. Browning, Paracelsus, I 



94 Divine — Doctors 

Divine. — It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. 
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

Divinely. — A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, 1 
And most divinely fair. 2 

Tennyson, Dream of Fair Women, lines 87, 88 

Divinity. — There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 2 

Dixie. — Southrons, hear your country call you! 
Up, lest worse than death befall you! 
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie! 

Advance the flag of Dixie! 
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 
For Dixie's land we take our stand, 

And live or die for Dixie! A. Pike, Dixie, st. 1 

Do. — So much to do, so little done! 

But when it 's o'er, — the victory won, — 
Oh! then, my soul, this strife and sorrow 
Will end in that great, glad To-morrow. 

J. R. Gilmore, Three Days, st. 3 

And all may do what has by man been done. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VI, line 606 

Doctor. — Joy and Temperance and Repose 

Slam the door on the doctor's nose. Longfellow, 
The Best Medicines, from the German of F. von Logau 

Doctors. — So lived our sires, ere doctors learned to kill, 
And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. 

Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden, lines 71, 72 

Talk of your science! after all is said 
There 's nothing like a bare and shiny head ; 
Age lends the graces that are sure to please; 
Folks want their doctors mouldy, like their cheese. 

Holmes, Rip Van Winkle, M.D., II, st. 4 

Who shall decide, when doctors disagree, 
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 1, 2 

J Her stature tall — I hate a dumpy woman. Byron, Don Juan, st. 61 
2 Divinely fair. Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, line 489 



Doctrine— Dogs 95 

Doctrine. — What makes all doctrine plain and clear? 
About two hundred pounds a year. 
And that which was proved true before 
Proved false again? — Two hundred more. 

Butler, Hudibras, III, i, lines 1277-1280 

Dog. — My dog howls at the gate. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 13 (2) 

The dog, to gain some private ends, 
Went mad and bit the man. 



The man recovered of the bite, 
The dog it was that died! 

Goldsmith, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8 

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; 
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? 

Pope, Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog 

Given to His Royal Highness 

Celia. Why, Rosalind! . . . not a word? 
Rosalind. Not one to throw at a dog. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 3 

Mine enemy's dog, 
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night 
Against my fire. Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 7 

Hath a dog money? Is it possible 

A cur can lend three thousand ducats? 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause; 

But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs. Ibid., in, 3 

An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, 
they would have hanged him. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3 

Dogrose. — A dogrose blushin' to a brook 
Ain't modester nor sweeter. 

Lowell, The Courtin', st. 7 

Dogs. — The little dogs and all, 

Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me! 

Shakespeare, King Lear, hi, 6 

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 

For God hath made them so; 
Let bears and lions growl and fight, 

For 't is their nature to. Isaac Watts, Song, xvi 



96 Doing — Dormouse 

Doing. — What is worth doing is worth doing well; and with 
a little more trouble at first, much trouble afterwards 
may be avoided. — Max Muller, Letter to John 

Bellows, July 18, 1866, Life, by His Wife, I, xv 

Doll. — I once had a sweet little doll, dears, 
The prettiest doll in the world ; 

Yet for old sakes' sake she is still, dears, 
The prettiest doll in the world. 

Kingsley, Songs from the Water Babies, IV, st. 1, 2 

Dollar.— The Almighty Dollar. 

Washington Irving, The Creole Village 
A short -weight dollar is not an honest dollar to pay 
full-weight-dollar debts with. 

Theodore Roosevelt, cited by Jacob Riis in 

Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen, xii 

Done. — What men have done can still be done, 
And shall be done to-day! 

G. Barlow, The Song of Abou Klea, st. 2 
That 's what I always say ; if you wish a thing to be well 

done, 
You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others ! 
Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, ii, 

lines 28, 29 
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly. - Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 
What's done cannot be undone. Ibid., v, 1 

Door. — Open the door with shame, if ye have sinned; 
If ye be sorry, open it with sighs. 
Albeit the place be bare for poverty, 
And comfortless for lack of plenishing, 
Be not abashed for that, but open it, 
And take Him in that comes to sup with thee ; 
"Behold! " He saith, "I stand at the door and knock! " 
Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 
The door is open, sir ; there lies your way ; 
You may be jogging whiles your boots are green. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2 

Dormouse. — But a child — that bids the world good-night, 
In downright earnest and cuts it quite — 

A cherub no art can copy, — 
'Tis a perfect picture to see him lie 
As if he had supped on dormouse pie 
(An ancient classical dish by the by), 
With a sauce of syrup of poppy. 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Dream 



Doubt — Down 97 

Doubt. — Doubt thou the stars are fire ; 
Doubt that the sun doth move; 
Doubt truth to be a liar; 

But never doubt I love. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 
To be once in doubt 
Is once to be resolved. Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, 
At last he beat his music out. 
There lives more faith in honest doubt, 

I Believe me, than in half the creeds. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xcvi, st. 3 

Doubts. Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win 
By fearing to attempt. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, i, 4 [5] 

Douglas. — Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die. 

John Home, Douglas, v, 1 

Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas, 

In the old likeness that I knew, 
I would be so faithful, so loving, Douglas, 

Douglas, Douglas, tender and true. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, Too Late, st. 1 

The hand of Douglas is his own 
And never shall in friendly grasp 
The hand of such as Mann-ion clasp. 

Scott, Marmion, vi, 13 

Dove. The tender fierceness of the dove, 

Pecking the hand that hovers o'er her mate. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 57 

Oh, had I the wings of a dove! 

Cowper, Alexander Selkirk, st. 3 

Coo, dove, to thy manied mate — 

She has two warm eggs in her nest: 
Tell her the hours are few to wait 

Ere life shall dawn on their rest ; 
And thy young shall peck at the shells, elate 

With a dream of her brooding breast. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 

Down. — He that is down need fear no fall, 1 
He that is low, no pride. 

Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, II, Stage v 

I I am not now in Fortune's power, 

He that is down can fall no lower. — Butler, Hudibras, I, iii, lines 857, 858 



98 Dragon — Dreams 

Dragon. — Come not between the dragon and his wrath. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, i 

Dream. — I had a dream, which was not all a dream. 

Byron, Darkness, line i 

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. 

Byron, The Dream 

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, 
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream! 1 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 238, 239 

To die, to sleep; 
To sleep; perchance to dream: 2 ay, there's the rub; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us 
pause. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends 
Environed me [about], and howled in mine ears 
Such hideous cries, that with the very noise 
I trembling waked, and for a season after 
Could not believe but that I was in hell, 
Such terrible impression made the [my] dream. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 4 

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, 
For I did dream of money-bags to-night. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 5 

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream: 
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; 
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iv, 1 

Dreaming. Sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, 
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. 3 

Campbell, The Soldier's Dream, st. 6 

Dreams. — My dreams were always beautiful, my thoughts 
were high and fine; 
No life was ever lived on earth to match those dreams 
of mine. Henry van Dyke, Another Chance, st. 3 

*Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. 

Joel, ii, 28 
2 How happy they who wake no more! 
Yet that were vain, if dreams infest the grave. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 7, 8 

3 But oh, as to embrace me she inclined, 
I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night. 

Milton, On His Deceased Wife 



Dreams — Drink 99 

As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart 
pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean 
nay, sometimes even touch, in the dark, with a crack of 
timbers, a gurgling of water, a cry of startled sleepers, — 
a cry mysteriously echoed in warning dreams, as the wife 
of some Gloucester fisherman, some coasting skipper, 
wakes with a shriek, calls the name of her husband, and 
sinks back to uneasy slumbers upon her lonely pillow, — 
a widow. Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, iii 

Unknown facts of guilty acts 
Are seen in dreams from God! 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 1 1 

Dhrames always go by conthrairies, my dear. 

Samuel Lover, Rory O'More, st. 2 

You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2 

Oh! I have passed a miserable night, 
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, 1 
That, as I am a Christian faithful man, 
I would not spend another such a night, 
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days, — 
So full of dismal terror was the time! 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 4 

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. 

Ibid., v, 3 

Dreams, 
Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 4 

Dressed. — Still to be neat, still to be dressed, 
As you were going to a feast. 

Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, i, 1 

Drink. — Drink to me only with thine eyes, 
And I will pledge with mine; 
Or leave a kiss but in the cup, 
And I '11 not look for wine. 

I sent thee late a rosie wreath, 

Not so much honouring thee, 
As giving it a hope that there 

It could not withered be. 
But thou thereon didst only breathe, 

And sent'st it back to me: 

l "So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights," according to other versions. 



ioo Drink 

Drink — Continued 

Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, 
Not of itself, but thee. 1 

Ben Jonson, The Forest: To Celia 

Drink of this cup ; you '11 find there 's a spell in 
Its every drop 'gainst the ills of mortality; 

Talk of the cordial that sparkled for Helen! 
Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality. 

T. Moore, Drink of This Cup, st. i 

While you live, 
Drink! — for, once dead, you never shall return. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 35 

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: 
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. 

Ibid., st. 74 

The more you drink, the more you crave. Pope, 

Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle ii, line 212 

I never drink but at my hours. Rabelais, I, v 

We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

I can drink with any tinker in his own language. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

And let me the cannikin clink, clink; 
And let me the cannikin clink: 

A soldier 's a man ; 

A life's but a span; 
Why, then, let a soldier drink. 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 

'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep: 

He'll watch the horologe a double set, 

If drink rock not his cradle. Ibid. 

Great men should drink with harness on their throats. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 2 

x The utmost share 
Of my desire shall be 
Only to kiss that air 
That lately kissed thee. 

Herrick, To Electro,, I Dare not Ask a Kiss, st. 2 
I took the wreath, whose inmost twine 
Breathed of him and blushed with wine. — T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon, i 

If thou art inclined to gratify thy lover, send him back the remains of the 
garland, no longer breathing of roses only, but also of thee! 

Philostratus, Erotica, cited by Moore, note to Odes of Anacreon, i 



Drink— Drinking 101 

He has a sin that often 
Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner: 
If there were no foes, that were enough 
To overcome him : in that beastly fury- 
He has been known to commit outrages, 
And cherish factions: 'tis inferred to us, 
His days are foul and his drink dangerous. — Ibid., hi, 5 

We keep the day. With festal cheer, 

With books and music, surely we 

Will drink to him whate'er he be, 
And sing the songs he loved to hear. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvii, st. 6 

Drink, pretty creature, drink! 

Wordsworth, The Pet Lamb, st. 1 

Drinking. — The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, v 
And drinks, and gapes for drink again. 
The plants suck in the earth, and are 
With constant drinking fresh and fair; 
The sea itself (which one would think 
Should have but little need of drink) 
Drinks twice ten thousand rivers tip, 
So filled that they o'erflow the cup 

Nothing in nature's sober found, 
But an eternal health goes round. 
Fill up the bowl then, fill it high, 
Fill all the glasses there; for why 
Should every creature drink but I ; 
Why, man of morals, tell me why? 

Cowley, Anacreontiques: Drinking 

Drinking all night and dozing all the day. 

Dryden, Essay upon Satire, line 189 

There is no drinking after death. 2 

John Fletcher, Drink To-Day, st. 1 

1 Observe when mother earth is dry, 
She drinks the droppings of the sky; 
And then the dewy cordial gives 
To every thirsty plant that lives. 
The vapours, which at evening weep, 
Are beverage to the swelling deep ; 
And when the rosy sun appears, 
He drinks the ocean's misty tears. 
The moon too quaffs her paly stream 
Of lustre, from the solar beam. 
Then, hence with all your sober thinking! ; 
Since Nature's holy law is drinking; 
I '11 make the laws of nature mine, 
And pledge the universe in wine. T.' Moore, Odes of Anacreon, xxi 

2 1 know in the tombs 
There's no carousing. Herrick, Anacreontic, Born Was I to Be Old 



102 Drinking — Drunkenness 

The habit of drinking is often a vice, no doubt, — 
sometimes a misfortune, — as when an almost irresisti- 
ble hereditary propensity exists to indulge in it, — but 
oftenest of all a punishment. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 

They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet. 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

The dry divan 
Close in firm circle; and set, ardent, in 
For serious drinking. 

Thomson, The Seasons: Autumn, lines 531-533 
Dross. — What men call treasure, and the gods call dross. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 4 

Drown. — Lord, Lord! [O Lord!] methought, what pain it was 

to drown! 
What dreadful noise of waterfs] in mine ears! 
What ugly sights of [sights of ugly] death within mine 

eyes! 
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks; 
Ten [A] thousand men that fishes gnawed upon; 
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, 
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, 
All scattered in the bottom of the sea. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 4 

Drudgery. — A servant with this clause 
Makes drudgery divine: 
Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, 
Makes that and the action fine. 

G-. Herbert, The Elixir, st. 5 

Drum. — Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, 
As his corpse to the rampart we hurried. 

Charles Wolfe, Burial of Sir John Moore, st. 1 

Drunk. — Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. 2 
Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, line 408 

All loud alike, 
All learned, and all drunk! Cowper, The Task: 

The Winter Evening, lines 477, 478 

Drunkenness. — Whenever the wandering Demon of Drunk- 
enness finds a ship adrift, — no steady wind in its sails, 
no thoughtful pilot directing its course, — he steps on 
board, takes the helm, and steers straight for the mael- 
strom. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 

iCf. the modern phrase, "Paint the town red." 
2 Let other hours be set apart for business. 
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk. Fielding, Tom Thumb, i, 2 



Ducats — Dust 103 

Ducats. — You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have 
A weight of carrion flesh than to receive 
Three thousand ducats : I '11 not answer that : 
But say it is my humour. 

If every ducat in six thousand ducats 

Were in six parts, and every part a ducat, 

I would not draw them; I would have my bond. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, i 

Dupes. — The history of human-kind to trace 

Since Eve — the first of dupes — our doom unriddled, 
A certain portion of the human race 

Has certainly a taste for being diddled. 1 

Hood, .4 Black Job, st. i 

Durance. — In durance vile here must I wake and weep. 

Burns, Epistle from Ksopus to Maria, st. 3 

Dust. — Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, 
Before we too into the dust descend; 

Dust into dust, and under dust to lie, 
Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and — sans end ! 
Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 24 

Fear no more the heat o' the sun, 

Nor the furious winter's rages; 
Thou thy worldly task hast done, 

Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: 
Golden lads and girls all must, 
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. 

The sceptre, learning, physic, must 
All follow this, and come to dust. 2 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 2 

And give to dust that is a little gilt 
More laud than gilt [gold] o'er-dusted. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 

1 Those good and easy innocents in fact, 
Who, willingly receiving chaff for corn, 



Still find a secret pleasure in the act 

Of being plucked and shorn. Hood, A Black Job, st. 16 

2 Death is master of lord and clown; 
Shovel the clay in, tread it down. 

Alfred Austin, Songs from "Prince Lucifer,'- st. 3 
Sceptre and crown 
Must tumble down, 
And in the dust be equal made 
With the poor crooked scythe and spade. 

J. Shirley, Dirge: Death the Leveller, st. 1 



104 Dust — Duty 

Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : 

Thou madest man, he knows not why; 
He thinks he was not made to die; 

And thou hast made him: thou art just. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, Introduction, st. 3 

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? 
What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame? 
Earth's highest station ends in, "Here he lies;" 
And "Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, lines 98-101 

Duty. — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 
So near is God to man, 
When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," 

The youth replies, "I can." — Emerson, Voluntary III 

He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing, — 

And went for it thar and then; 
And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard 

On a man that died for men. 

John Hay, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, st. 7 

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty: 
I woke and found that life was Duty. 

E. S. Hooper, Duty 

England expects every man to do his duty. 

Horatio, Viscount Nelson, quoted by Southey, 

Life of Nelson, ix 

I will turn 
To the straight path of Duty. 

Labour shall be my lot: 
My kindred shall be joyful in my praise; 
And Fame shall twine for me in after-days 

A wreath I covet not : 

And, if I cannot make, 
Dearest, thy hope my hope, thy trust my trust, 
Yet will I study to be good and just 

And blameless, for thy sake. 

Praed, A Retrospect, st. 10-12 

My duty then shall pay me for my pains. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, ii, 1 

I do perceive here a divided duty. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure; 

Till in all lands and through all human story 

The path of duty be the way to glory.— Tennyson, 

Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, st. 8 



Duty — Dying i o 5 

I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man 

and true; 
I have only done my duty as a man is bound to do. 

Tennyson, The Revenge, st. 13 

Dying. — Our very hopes belied our fears, 
Our fears our hopes belied — 
We thought her dying when she slept, 
And sleeping when she died. 

For when the morn came dim and sad, 

And chill with early showers, 
Her quiet eyelids closed — she had 

Another morn than ours. 1 

Hood, The Death-Bed, st. 3, 4 

Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying! 

Pope, Dying Christian to His Soul, st. 1 

I am dying, Egypt, dying. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 15 [13] 

Oh ! but they say the tongues of dying men 

Enforce attention like deep harmony: 

Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain, 

For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. 

He that no more must say is listened more 

Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose ; 

More are men's ends marked than their lives before. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, ii, 1 

1 Her suffering ended with the day, 

Yet lived she at its close, 
And breathed the long, long night away 
In statue-like repose. 

But when the sun in all his state 

Illumed the eastern skies, 
She passed through glory's morning gate, 

And walked in Paradise. James Aldrich, A Death-Bed 

She thought our good-night kiss was given, 

And like a lily her life did close ; 

Angels uncurtained that repose, 
And the next waking dawned in heaven. 

Gerald Masse y, Ballad of Babe Christabel 

She 's from a world of woe relieved, 

And blooms, a rose, in heaven. Burns, On the Poet's Daughter, st. 2 

So softly death succeeded life in her : 

She did but dream of heaven, and she was there. 

Dryden, Eleonora, lines 315, 316 

Gently! 
She is sleeping. 

She has breathed her last! 
Gently! 
While you're weeping 

She to heaven has past! C. G. Eastman, Dirge, st. 3 



io6 Eagle— Earth 

Eagle. — Like an eagle in a dove-cote. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v, 6 [5] 

Men that in a narrower day — 

Unprophetic rulers they — 

Drove from out the mother's nest 

That young eagle of the West 

To forage for herself alone. Tennyson, 

Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, st. 3 
The eagle's fate and mine are one, 

Which, on the shaft that made him die, 
Espied a feather of his own, 

Wherewith he wont to soar so high. 1 

Edmund Waller, To a Lady, Singing a Song 

of His Own Composing 

Eagles. — Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 3 
Ear. — Her small and shell-like ear. 

Hood, Bianco 1 s Dream, st. 31 
Where more is meant than meets the ear. 

Milton, II Penseroso, line 120 
Ear-kissing. — Ear -kissing arguments. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, ii, 1 
Ears. — Pitchers have ears. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 4 
Earth. — This is the last of earth. 

J. Q. Adams, Last Words, Life, by Josiah Quincy, xiv 

The earth goes on the earth glittering in gold, 
The earth goes to the earth sooner than it wold; 
The earth builds on the earth castles and towers, 
The earth says to the earth — All this is ours. 

Anonymous, Inscription on Melrose Abbey 

He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, 
Was also certain that the earth was square, 

Because he had journeyed fifty miles, and found 
No sign that it was circular anywhere. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto v, st. 150 

1 'T was thine own genius gave the final blow, 
And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : 
So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, 
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines 824-829 

The duped people, hourly doomed to pay 

The sums that bribe their liberties away, — 

Like a young eagle who has lent his plume 

To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, — 

See their own feathers plucked, to wing the dart 

Which rank corruption destines for their heart! — T. Moore, Corruption 



Earth — Education 107 

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 

Which men call Earth. Milton, Comus, lines 5, 6 

Said one among them — ' ' Surely not in vain 
My substance of the common earth was ta'en 

And to this figure moulded, to be broke, 
Or trampled back to shapeless earth again." 
Then said a second — "Ne'er a peevish boy 
Would break the bowl from which he drank in joy; 

And He that with his hand the vessel made 
Will surely not in after-wrath destroy." 1 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), 

st. 84, 85 
Ease. — Born to write, converse, and live with ease. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 196 

East. — If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 
'eed naught else. Kipling, Mandalay 

High on a throne of royal state, which far 
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, 
Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, 
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, 2 
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised 
To that bad eminence. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, II, lines 1-6 

Eaten. — He hath eaten me out of house and home. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 1 

Eaves. — The martin-haunted eaves. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, line 163 

Echo. — Hark! to the hurried question of despair: 

"Where is my child? " an echo answers — "Where? " 

Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto ii, st. 27 

Education. — 'T is education forms the common mind, 
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle i, lines 149, 150 

] If we are only as the potter's clay 
Made to be fashioned as the artist wills, 
And broken into shards if we offend 
The eye of Him who made us, it is well. 



Or is it only clay, 
Bleeding and aching in the potter's hand, 
Yet all his own to treat it as he will, 
And when he will to cast it at his feet, 
Shattered, dishonoured, lost for evermore? 

Holmes, Rights, lines 26-29, 52-5 
2 The exhaustless East 
Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 



108 Education — Embrace 

Though her 1 mien carries much more invitation than 
command, to behold her is an immediate check on loose 
behaviour ; to love her was a liberal education. 

Steele, The Tatler, No. 49 

Egg. — We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg 
than by smashing it. 

Abraham Lincoln, Last Public Address, 

April 11, 1865 
One likes the pheasant's wing, and one the leg; 
The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. Pope, 

Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle ii, lines 84, 85 

Eggs. They say we are 

Almost as like as eggs. — Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, i, 2 

Egotist. You, foul-tongued 

Fanatic or ambitious egotist, 
Who thinks God stoops from His high majesty 
To lay his finger on your puny head, 
And crown it — that you henceforth may parade 
Your maggotship throughout the wondering world — 
"I am the Lord's anointed!" 

D. M. Mulock Craik, The Dead Czar, st. 5 

Elder. — How much more elder art thou than thy looks! 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Elms. — Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, 
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, 
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, 

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 5 

Eloquent. — That old man eloquent. 2 

Milton, Sonnet: To the Lady Margaret Ley 

Embers. — Thou hast but taken thy lamp and gone to bed; 
I stay a little longer, as one stays 
To cover up the embers that still burn. 

Longfellow, Three Friends of Mine, iv 

Embrace. — Better thou and I were lying, hidden from the 
heart's disgrace, 
Rolled in one another's arms, and silent ina last embrace. 3 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 57, 58 

J Lady Elizabeth Hastings. 

2 The Earl of Marlborough, Lord-President of the Council to King James I. 

3 Would that we two were lying 

Beneath the churchyard sod, 
With our limbs at rest in the green earth's breast, 
And our souls at home with God. 

C. KrNGSLEY, The Saint's Tragedy, ii, 9 



Emetics — Ending 109 

Emetics. — I [cannot] believe that a man could contract so 
strong an appetite for emetics during temporary illness 
as to persist in feeding upon them during the remainder 
of his healthful life. — Abraham Lincoln, Letter to 

Erastus Coming, June 12, 1863 

Emigrated. — Oh, write of me, not "Died in bitter pains," 
But "Emigrated to another star!" 

Helen Fiske Jackson, Emigravit, lines 12, 13 

Empire. — Westward the course of empire takes its way ; l 
The first four acts already past, 
A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; 
Time's noblest offspring is the last. 

George Berkeley, The Prospect of Planting 

Arts and Learning in America, st. 6 

Stop! — for thy tread is on an empire's dust! 
An earthquake's spoil is sepulchred below! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 17 

Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; 
Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, 
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 13 

End. — The end must justify the means. 

Matthew Prior, Hans Carvel, line 67 

The true beginning of our end. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night 1 s Dream, v, 1 

The end crowns all, 
And that old common arbitrator, Time, 
Will one day end it. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iv, 5 

Ended. — All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the 

sorrow, 

All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, 2 

All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience! 

And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her 

bosom, 
Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father, I 
thank thee!" 

Longfellow, Evangeline, II, v, lines 125-129 

Ending. — Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art 
is of ending; 
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse. 

Longfellow, Elegiac Verse, st. 14 

1 The star of empire glitters in the west. 

Charles Mackay, Cheer, Boys! Cheer! st. 2 
2 A vague unrest 
And a nameless longing filled her breast. — Whittier, Maud Midler, st. 5 



no Endure — England 

Endure. — O ye gdds, ye gods! must I endure all this? 

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, iv, 3 

Enemies. — Lands intersected by a narrow frith 
Abhor each other. Mountains interposed 
Make enemies of nations, who had else 
Like kindred drops been mingled into one. 1 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 16-19 

Enemy. — A weak invention of the enemy. 

Colley Cibber, Richard III, v, 6 

We have met the enemy and they are ours. 

Oliver H. Perry, Report of the Battle of Lake Erie 

Engineer. — For 't is the sport to have the engine[e]r 
Hoist with his own petar : and 't [it] shall go hard 
But I will delve one yard below their mines, 
And blow them at the moon. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

England. — Ye Mariners of England, 
That guard our native seas! 
Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, 
The battle and the breeze. 

Campbell, Ye Mariners of England, st. 1 

The meteor flag of England. Ibid., st. 4 

The foeman will find neither coward nor slave 
'Neath the Red Cross of England — the flag of the Brave. 
Eliza Cook, The Red Cross of England, st. 1 

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still — 
My country! 2 and, while yet a nook is left 
Where English minds and manners may be found, 
Shall be constrained to love thee. 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 206-209 

'Once we thought it right to foster Right, through fear of foreign rivals, 

Local jealousies and pride; To refuse the needful grain; 

Right to hate another nation Right to bar it out till Famine 

Parted from us by a tide; Drew the bolt with fingers wan. 

Right to go to war for glory, Old opinions! rags and tatters! 

Or extension of domain; Get you gone! get you gone! 

Charles Mackay, Old Opinions, st. 4 

2 "England! with all thy faults I love thee still" . . . 
I like the freedom of the press and quill ; * . . . 
I like the taxes, when they're not too many; 

I like a sea-coal fire, when not too dear; 
I like a beefsteak, too, as well as any; 

Have no objection to a pot of beer, 
I like the weather, when it is not rainy, 

That is, I like two months of every year. — Byron, Beppo, st. 47, 48 



♦Because bold Britons have a tongue and free quill, 
At which all modern nations vainly aim. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiii, st. 20 



England 1 1 1 

[England] is the cradle and the refuge of free princi- 
ples, though often persecuted; the school of religious 
liberty, the more precious for the struggles through which 
it has passed; the tombs of those who have reflected 
honour on all who speak the English tongue; it is the 
birthplace of our fathers, the home of the Pilgrims. 
Edward Everett, Oration Delivered at 

Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 22, 1824 

What should they know of England who only England 
know? Kipling, The English Flag, st. 1 

What is the flag of England? Winds of the world, 
declare! Ibid., st. 2 

She 's [England 's] all thet 's honest, honnable, an' fair, 
An' when the vartoos died they made her heir. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 136, 137 

She [England] an' Columby's gut to be fas' friends: 
For the world prospers by their privit ends : 
'T would put the clock back all o' fifty years 
Ef they should fall together by the ears. 

We 're boun' to be good friends, an' so we 'd oughto, 
In spite of all the fools both sides the water. 

Ibid., lines 209-230 

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's 

praise : 
I tell [sing] of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in 

ancient days, 
When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain 
The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain. 
Macaulay, The Armada, lines 1-4 

The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's 

massy fold; 
The parting gleam of sunshine kissed that haughty 

scroll of gold; 
Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple 

sea, 
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again 

shall be. Ibid., lines 31-34 

Now all the youth of England are on fire, 
And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, Prologue 

That island of England breeds very valiant creatures. 

Ibid., iii, 7 



ii2 England 

England — Continued 

This England never did, nor never shall, 

Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, 

But when it first did help to wound itself. 1 

Now these her princes are come home again, 

Come the three corners of the world in arms, 

And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, 

If England to itself do rest but true. 

Shakespeare, King John, v, 7 

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, 

This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, 

This other Eden, demi-paradise, 

This fortress built by Nature for herself 

Against infection and the hand of war, 

This happy breed of men, this little world, 

This precious stone set in the silver sea, 

Which serves it in the office of a wall 

Or as a moat defensive to a house, 

Against the envy of less happie[r] lands, 

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, ii, 1 

England, where indeed, they are most potent in pot- 
ting. Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 

Shot through the staff or the halyard, but ever we 

raised thee anew, 
And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of England 

blew. Tennyson, Defence of Lucknow, st. 1 

A power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest 
and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not 
to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the 
surface of the whole globe with her possessions and mili- 
tary posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, 
and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth 
with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial 
airs of England. 2 — Daniel Webster, Speech in the 

Senate, May 7, 1834 

1 No foreign foe could quell 
Thy soul, till from itself it fell. Byron, The Giaour, lines 138, 139 

2 From India's morning-bugle 

To the last sunset-gun. — G. Barlow, England, Ho! for England, st. 1 

The Briton may traverse the pole or the zone, 

And boldly claim his right; 
For he calls such a vast domain his own, 

That the sun never sets on his might. 

Eliza Cook, The Englishman, st. 4 

Take 'old o' the wings o' the mornin', 

An' flop 'round the earth till you're dead; 
But you won't get away from the tune that they play 

To the bloomin' old Rag over'ead. — Kipling, The Widow at Windsor 



English — Ennoble 113 

English. — 'Tis the hard grey weather 
Breeds hard English men. 

C. Kingsley, Ode to the Northeast Wind, lines 51, 52 

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, 
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag 
has flown. Kipling, The English Flag, st. 7 

Never the lotos closes, never the wild-fowl wake, 
But a soul goes out on the East Wind that died for Eng- 
land's sake — 
Man or woman or suckling, mother or bride or maid — 
Because on the bones of the English the English flag is 
stayed. 1 Ibid., st. 12 

An old abusing of God's patience and the king's 
English. Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 4 

Handful of men as we were, we were English in heart 

and in limb, 
Strong with the strength of the race to command, to 

obey, to endure, 
Each of us fought as if hope for the garrison hung but 

on him. Tennyson, Defence of Lucknow, st. 4 

Englishman. — There 's a land that bears a world -known 
name, 
Though it is but a little spot; 

'Tis the star of earth, deny it who can; 
The island home of an Englishman. 

Eliza Cook, The Englishman, st. 1 

Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, 
Though banished, yet a trueborn Englishman. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

Ennoble. — What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? 
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards! 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 215, 216 

'We have fed our sea for a thousand years, 

And she calls us, still unfed, 
Though there's never a wave of all her waves 

But marks our English dead : * 
We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest. 

To the shark and the sheering gull. 
If blood be the price of admiralty, 
Lord God, we ha' paid in full! 

Kipling, A Song of the English, II, st. 1 



Wave may not foam, nor wild wind sweep, 
Where rest not England's dead. 

Felicia Hemans, England's Dead, st. 2 



n4 Ensign — Equalized 

Ensign. — Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! 
Long has it waved on high, 
And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky. — Holmes, Old Ironsides, st. i 

Envy. Can envy dwell 

In heavenly breasts? 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, lines 729, 730 

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human 
heart as envy. Sheridan, The Critic, i, 1 

Base envy withers at another's joy, 

And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, lines 284, 285 

Epitaph. — Let there be no inscription upon my tomb ; let no 
man write my epitaph. . . . Let my character and my 
motives repose in obscurity and peace till other times 
and other men can do them justice. Then shall my 
character be vindicated ; then may my epitaph be writ- 
ten. — Robert Emmet, Speech from the dock on his 

conviction for high treason, Sept. 19, 1803 

Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, 
But not remembered in thy epitaph. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 7, v 4 

Epithet. — A kind of maddened John the Baptist, 
To whom the harshest word comes aptest, 
Who, struck by stone or brick ill-starred, 
Hurls back an epithet as hard, 
Which, deadlier than stone or brick, 
Has a propensity to stick. 

Lowell, Letter from Boston, lines 135-140 

Epitome. — In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; 
A man so various that he seemed to be 
Not one, but all mankind's epitome; 
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; 
Was everything by starts, and nothing long; 
But, in the course of one revolving moon, 
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, 

lines 544-55° 

Equalized. — One place there is — beneath the burial sod — 
Where all mankind are equalized by death; 
Another place there is — the Fane of God — 
Where all are equal who draw living breath; 
Juggle who will elsewhere with his own soul, 
Playing the Judas with a temporal dole — 



Equalized — Even 1 1 5 

He who can come beneath that awful cope, 
In the dread presence of a Maker just, 
Who metes to ev'ry pinch of human dust 
One even measure of immortal hope — 
He who can stand within that holy door, 
With soul unbowed by that pure spirit-level, 
And frame unequal laws for rich and poor, — 
Might sit for Hell and represent the Devil. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 14 

Era. — At the birth of each new Era, with a recognizing start, 
Nation wildly looks at nation, standing with mute lips 

apart, 
And glad Truth's yet mightier man-child leaps beneath 

the Future's heart. — Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 2 

Erin. — Erin mavournin, Erin go bragh ! * 

Campbell, The Exile of Erin, st. 5 

Euchred. — Just a pack o' rotten plates puttied up with tar, 
In we came, an' time enough, 'cross Bilbao Bar. 
Overloaded, undermanned, meant to' founder, we 
Euchred God Almighty's storm, bluffed the Eternal Sea. 
Kipling, Ballad of the Bolivar, st. 11 

Evanescence. — Statue of flesh — immortal of the dead! 
Imperishable type of evanescence! 
Posthumous man, who quitt'st thy narrow bed, 
And standest undecayed within our presence, 
Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, 
When the Great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning. 
Horace Smith, Address to a Mummy, st. 12 

Eve. — One of Eve's family. Hood, The Bridge of Sighs 

But if the first Eve 

Hard doom did receive, 
When only one apple had she, 

What a punishment new 

Shall be found out for you, 
Who, tasting, have robbed the whole tree? 

Pope, To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, st. 5 

Even. — Even is come; and from the dark Park, hark, 
The signal of the setting sun — one gun ! 
And six is sounding from the chime, prime time 
To go and see the Drury-Lane Dane slain, — 
Or hear Othello's jealous doubt spout out, 
Or Macbeth raving at that shade-made blade, 
Denying to his frantic clutch much touch. 

Hood, A Nocturnal Sketch, lines 1-7 

1 Ireland my darling ! Ireland for ever ' 



Evening— Evils 



Evening. — Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 
And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, 
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. 

Cowper, The Task: The Winter Evening, lines 36-41 

Now came still evening on, and twilight grey- 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 598, 599 

And still on that evening, when pleasure fills up 
To the highest top sparkle each heart and each cup, 
Where'er my path lies, be it gloomy or bright, 
My soul, happy friends, shall be with you that night; 
Shall join in your revels, your sports, and your wiles, 
And return to me, beaming all o'er with your smiles — 
Too blest, if it tells me that, 'mid the gay cheer 
Some kind voice had murmured, "I wish he were here! " 
T. Moore, Farewell! — But Whenever You Wel- 
come the Hour, st. 2 

Ever. — It may be for years, and it may be for ever! 

L. M. Crawford, Kathleen Mavourneen 

For ever and a day. — Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv, 1 

Men may come and men may go, 

But I go on for ever. Tennyson, The Brook 

Evil. — The wounds I might have healed ! 
The human sorrow and smart! 
And yet it never was in my soul 

To play so ill a part: 
But evil is wrought by want of thought, 
As well as want of heart! 

Hood, The Lady's Dream, st. 16 

And out of good still to find means of evil. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, line 165 

Though fallen on evil days, 
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. 

Ibid., VII, lines 25, 26 

The evil that men do lives after them; 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

Evils.— Of two evils the less is alway to be chosen. 

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, III, xii, 2 



Executors — Eye 117 

Executors. — Let 's choose executors and talk of wills. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 2 

Expectation. — "Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; 
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. 

Sir John Suckling, Against Fruition, st. 4 

Expediency. — No man is justified in doing evil on the ground 
of expediency. 

Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life: 

Latittide and Longitude Among Reformers 

Experience. — Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; 
It has taught me this, — who once has loved, loves never 
on earth again! 

Experience is bitter indeed, — I have learned at a heavy 

cost 
The secret of love's persistency: I, too, have loved and 

lost. G. Arnold, Introspection, vi 

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn 
in no other, and scarse in that. 

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 

Unless experience be a jewel that I have purchased at 
an infinite rate. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2 

Explanation. — I wish he would explain his explanation. 

Byron, Don Juan, Dedication, st. 2 

Extenuate. — Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice. 

Shakespeare, Othello, v, 2 

Extremes. — Extremes in nature equal good produce, 
Extremes in man concur to gen'ral use. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 161-162 

Eye. — The love-light in her eye. 

Hartley Coleridge, She Is Not Fair to Outward View 

He holds him with his glittering eye. 

S. T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 13 

The bright black eye, the melting blue, — 
I cannot choose between the two. 

Holmes, The Dilemma, st. 1 

I trowe that countenance cannot lie, 
Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. 

Matthew Royden, Elegy on a Friend's Passion 

for His Astrophill (Sir Philip Sidney) 



n8 Eye — Eyes 

Faster than his tongue 
Did make offence his eye did heal it up. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 5 

Where is any author in the world 
Teaches such beauty [learning] as a woman's eye? 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3 

Stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through 
the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft 
with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

Eyes. — Her eyes are sapphires set in snow. 

T. Lodge, Rosaline, st. 1 

From women's eyes 1 this doctrine I derive: 
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; 
They are the books, 2 the arts, the academes, 
That show, contain, and nourish all the world. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3 

Eyes, look your last! 
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you 
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss 
A dateless bargain to engrossing death. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 3 

Those perplexed and patient eyes were dim. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 15 

Face. — Human face divine. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, III, line 44 

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v, 4 

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God 
has [hath] given you one face, and you make yourselves 
another. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

Are you like the painting of a sorrow, 
A face without a heart? Ibid., iv, 7 

Wet my cheeks with artificial tears, 
And frame my face to all occasions. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iii, 2 

!The Hpht that lies 
In woman's eyes. Moore, The Time I've Lost in Wooing 

2 My only books 
Were woman's looks, 
And folly 's all they 've taught me. Ibid. 



Eyes — Failings 119 

I think there 's never a man in Christendom 
That can less[er] hide his love or hate than he; 
For by his face straight shall you know his heart. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, iii, 4 

What 's the matter, 
That you have such a February face, 
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 4 

Her angels face, 
As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, 
And made a sunshine in the shady place. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, I, iii, st. 4 

There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, 
And a new face at the door, my friend, 
A new face at the door. 1 

Tennyson, Death of the Old Year 

Faces. — Sea of upturned faces. 2 

Scott, Rob Roy, xx, Daniel Webster, Speech in 

Boston, Sept. 30, 1842 

Menas. All men's faces are true, whatso[m]e'er their 
hands are. 

Enobarbus. But there is never a fair woman has a 
true face. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 6 

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, 
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. 

Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece, lines 1252, 1253 

Facts. Facts are chiels that winna ding [cannot be over- 

thrown] 
An' downa [will not] be disputed. — Burns, A Dream, st. 4 

Fail. — In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves 
For a bright manhood, there is no such word 
As — fail. E. G. Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, ii, 2 

Macbeth. If we should fail? 

Lady Macbeth. We fail! 

But screw your courage to the sticking place, 
And we'll not fail. Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Failings. E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, line 164 

1 1 heard a sick man's dying sigh, 
And an infant's idle laughter. 
The Old Year went mourning by — 
The New came dancing after! 

Praed, Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine, st. i 
2 An avalanche of men, 



A sea, a sea of men! Ebenezer Elliott, The Corn-haw Hymn, st. 



120 Faint— Faith 

Faint. — Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. 

Proverbial, and quoted in various forms by- 
many authors. 1 

Who is so faint, that dare not be so bold 
To touch the fire, the weather being cold? 

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 401, 402 

Fair. — Is she not passing fair? 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv, 4 

Shall I, wasting in despair, 
Die, because a woman's fair? 

G. Wither, The Author's Resolution, st. 1 

Fairer. — Fairer than Rachel by the palmy well, 
Fairer than Ruth among the fields of corn. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, lines 679, 680 

Faith. — Learn to win a lady's faith 
Nobly, as the thing is high, 
Bravely, as for life and death, 
With a loyal gravity. 

E. B. Browning, The Lady's Yes, st. 5 

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. 2 

Cowley, On the Death of Crashaw, lines 55,56 

I consider faith and prayers 
Amongst the privatest of men's affairs. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 6 

They only the victory win 
Who have fought the good fight, and have vanquished 

the demon that tempts us within; 
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize 

that the world holds on high; 
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight, 

— if need be, to die. W. W. Story, Io Victis, st. 2 

A bending staff I would not break, 

A feeble faith I would not shake, 

Nor even rashly pluck away 

The error which some truth may stay, 

Whose loss might leave the soul without 

A shield against the shafts of doubt. 

Whittier, Questions of Life, lines 1-6 

*Faint heart ne'er wan [won] 
A lady fair. Burns, Epistle to Dr. Blacklock, st. 8 

2 For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; 
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iii, lines 305, 306 



Faith— Falls 121 

One in whom persuasion and belief 
Had ripened into faith, and faith become 
A passionate intuition. Wordsworth, 

The Excursion: Despondency Corrected, lines 1302-1304 

Faithful. — But the noblest thing which perished there 
Was that young faithful heart ! 

Felicia Hemans, Casablanca, st. 10 

Among the faithless, faithful only he. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, V, line 897 

Falcon. — A falcon, towering in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 4 

Fall. — Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! 
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, 
Whilst bloody treason nourished over us. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

Fallen. — Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, 
Fallen from his high estate. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, lines 77, 78 

So fallen ! so lost ! the light withdrawn 

Which once he wore! 
The glory from his grey hairs gone 

For evermore! 



Then, pay the reverence of old days 

To his dead fame; 
Walk backward, with averted gaze, 

And hide the shame! Whittier, Ichabod, st. 1, 9 

Falling. — Press not a falling man too far! 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

!T is a cruelty 
To load a falling man. Ibid., v, 3 [2] 



Falling-off. — O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Falls. — Some falls are means the happier to arise. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 2 



122 Falls — Fame 

When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 1 
Never to hope again. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

False. — One false step is ne'er retrieved. 

Gray, On a Favourite Cat, st. 7 

All was false and hollow ; though his tongue 
Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, II, lines 112-114 

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Framed to make women false. — Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Thou art false as hell. Ibid., iv, 2 

Ring out the false, ring in the true. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 2 

Falsehood. Falsehood 

Is worse in kings than beggars. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 6 

Oh, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, 

I ne'er could injure you. Sheridan, The Duenna, i, 5 

Falsehoods. — There are some falsehoods ... on which men 
mount, as on bright wings, towards heaven. There are 
some truths, cold, bitter, taunting truths, wherein your 
worldly scholars are very apt and punctual, which bind 
men down to earth with leaden chains. 

Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xiii 

Fame. Fate that then denied him, 
And envy that decried him, 
And malice that belied him, 
Have cenotaphed his fame 

J. H. Boner, Poe's Cottage at Fordham, st. 7 

1 Thrown by angry Jove 
Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn 
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, 
A summer's day ; and with the setting sun 
Dropped from the zenith like a falling star. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 741-745 

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness ; 

And, from that full meridian of my glory, 

I haste now to my setting : I shall fall 

Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 

And no man see me more. Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 



Fame 123 

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, 

And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame. 

Churchill, The Author, lines 233, 234 

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome, 
Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it. 

Colley Cibber, Richard III, Adapted, iii, 2 

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 

(That last infirmity of noble mind) 

To scorn delights, and live laborious days; 

But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 

And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 

And slits the thin-spun life. — Milton, Lycidas, lines 70-76 

Air and fame, as poets sing, 
Are both the same, the self-same thing; 
Yet bards are not chameleons quite, 
And heavenly food is very light; 
Who ever dined or supped on fame, 
And went to bed upon a name? J. Montgomery, 

The Pleasures of Imprisonment, Epistle i, st. 4 

Life is a lightning-flash of breath, 
Fame but a thunder-clap at death. 

J. Montgomery, Winter-Lightning, st. 2 

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 

Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, I, line 136 

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, 
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: 
Or ravished with the whistling of a name, 
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame! 1 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 281-284 

What is fame? the meanest have their day, 
The greatest can but blaze, and pass away. 2 Pope, 

Imitations of Horace, I, Epistle vi, lines 46, 47 

'All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. 

Pope, The Dunciad, iii, line 158 

What rage for fame attends both great and small ! 
Better be damned than mentioned not at all. 

J. Wolcott ("Peter Pindar"), Ode ix 

2 What is the end of fame? 'T is but to fill 

A certain portion of uncertain paper; 
Some liken it to climbing up a hill, 

Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour; 
For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill; 

And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," 
To have, when the original is dust, 
A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 218 



124 Fame — Farewell 

Unblemished let me live, or die unknown; 
Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none. 

Pope, Temple of Fame, lines 523, 524 

Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, line 458 

Fame is the shade of immortality, 
And in itself a shadow. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VII, lines 365, 366 

Familiar. — Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

Family. — I go for the man with the gallery of family por- 
traits against the one with the twenty-five-cent da- 
guerreotype, unless I find out that the last is the better 
of the two. — Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Famous. — I awoke one morning and found myself famous. 

Byron, Life, by T. Moore, xiv 

If thou wilt be constant then, 
And faithful of thy word, 
I '11 make thee glorious by my pen, 

And famous by my sword. 
I '11 serve thee in such noble ways 

Was never heard before; 
I '11 crown and deck thee with all bays, 
And love thee evermore. 

James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, 

My Dear and Only Love, st. 5 

Fancy. Gloomy as usual, . . . 

Brooding on fancy's eggs. 

George Macdonald, Within and Without, i, 1 

Chewing the food [cud] of sweet and bitter fancy. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv, 3 

Tell me where is fancy bred, 
Or in the heart or in the head? 
How begot, how nourished? 

Reply, Reply. 
It is engendered in the eyes, 
With gazing fed ; and fancy dies 
In the cradle where it lies. 

Let us all ring fancy's knell: 

1 11 begin it, — Ding, dong, bell. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

Farewell. — But still her lips refused to send — "Farewell! " 
For in that word — that fatal word — howe'er 
We promise — hope — believe — ■ there breathes despair. 
Byron, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 15 



Farewell 125 

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer 

For other's weal availed on high, 
Mine will not all be lost in air, 

But waft thy name beyond the sky. 

Byron, Farewell, st. i 

I only know we loved in vain — 

I only feel — Farewell! — Farewell! Ibid., st. 2 

Fare thee well; and if for ever, 

Still for ever, fare thee well; 
Even though unforgiving, never 

'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. 

Byron, Fare Thee Well, st. 1 

Farewell! — but whenever you welcome the hour, 
That awakens the night -song of mirth in your bower, 
Then think of the friend who once welcomed it too, 
And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you. 

T. Moore, Farewell! — But Whenever, etc., st. 1 

Farewell, my best beloved; beloved, fare thee well! 

I may not mourn where thou dost weep, nor be where 

thou dost dwell; 
But when the friend I trusted all coldly turns away, 
When the warmest feelings wither, and the dearest hopes 

decay, 
To thee — to thee — thou knowest, whate'er my lot may 

be, 
For comfort and for happiness, my spirit turns to thee. 

Praed, To , st. 6 

Whether we shall meet again I know not. 
Therefore our everlasting farewell take: 
For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius! 
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; 
If not, why then, this parting was well made. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, v, 1 

Oh, now, for ever 
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! 
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! 
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, 
The royal banner, and all quality, 
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! 
And you mortal engines, whose rude throats 
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, 
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii 






126 Fashion — Fate 

Fashion. — The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 
Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 3 

Fashions. — In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; 
Alike fantastic if too new or old : 
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 333-336 

Old fashions please me best. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 1 

Fast. — Fast bind, fast find; 

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 5 

Fat. — Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1784 

Let me have men about me that are fat : 
Sleek -headed men and such as sleep o' nights: 
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; 
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. 

Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : 

Yet, if my name were liable to fear, 

I do not know the man I should avoid 

So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; 

He is a great observer, and he looks 

Quite through the deeds of men. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, i, 2 

As fat as butter. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

If to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine 
are to be loved. Ibid. 

Fate. — He either fears his fate too much, 
Or his deserts are small, 
That dares not put it to the touch, 

To win or lose it all. James Graham, 

Marquis of Montrose, My Dear and Only Love, st. 2 

It matters not how strait the gate, 

How charged with punishments the scroll, 

I am the master of my fate ; 
I am the captain of my soul. 1 
W. E. Henley, Out of the Night That Covers Me, st. 4 

1 Arise, O soul, and gird thee up anew, 

Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate; 
No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue; 
Be the proud captain still of thine own fate! 

J. B. Ken yon, A Challenge 
Cf. Fortune. 



Fate — Father 127 

O God ! that one might read the book of fate ! x 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, i 

Before I trust my fate to thee, 

Or place my hand in thine, 
Before I let thy future give 

Colour and form to mine, 
Before I peril all for thee, question thy soul to-night for 
me. A. A. Procter, A Woman's Question, st. i 

There is no armour against fate; 
Death lays his icy hand on kings. 

J. Shirley, Dirge: Death the Leveller, st. i 

This net [of fate] was twisted by the sisters three ; 
Which, when once cast o'er hardened wretch, too late 
Repentance comes: replevy cannot be 
From the strong iron grasp of vengeful destiny. 

Thomson, Castle of Indolence, ii, 32 

The farthest from the fear 
Are often nearest to the stroke of fate. 

Young, Night Thottghts, V, lines 790, 791 

Fates. — Men at some time are masters of their fates : 
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 2 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, i, 2 

Father. — Father of all, in ev'ry age, 
In ev'ry clime adored, 
By saint, by savage, and by sage, 
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 1 

God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt thou do 
for a father? Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 2 

It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 2 

1 Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, 
All but the page prescribed, their present state. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 77, 78 

2 Man is his own star, and the soul that can 
Render an honest and a perfect man 
Commands all light, all influence, all fate. 
Nothing to him falls early, or too late. 

J. Fletcher, Upon an Honest Man's Fortune 

It is the stars, 
The stars above us, govern our conditions. — Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 3 

'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. — Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 



128 Fathers— Feared 

Fathers. — Thy free, proud fathers slumber at thy side; 
Live as they lived, or perish as they died ! 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 71 

Fault. Oftentimes excusing of a fault 

Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, 
As patches set upon a little breach 
Discredit more in hiding of the fault 
Than did the fault before it was so patched. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iii, 1 

Faultless. — Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 1 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 253, 254 

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, 

Dead perfection, no more. Tennyson, Maud, ii 

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, 
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: 
! If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you '11 forget 'em all. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, ii, lines 15-18 

A friendly eye could never see such faults. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccssar, iv, 3 

Oh, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults 
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 4 

Fear. — Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. 

Burke, On the Unitarian Petition, May 11, 1792 

Like one, that on a lonesome road 

Doth walk in fear and dread, 

And having once turned round walks on, 

And turns no more his head ; 

Because he knows, a frightful fiend 

Doth close behind him tread. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 446-451 

In the night, imagining some fear, 
How easy is a bush supposed a bear! 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, v, 1 

Feared. Wheresoever he appeared, 

Full twenty times was Peter feared 
For once that Peter was respected. 

Wordsworth, Peter Bell, i, st. 3 

x 'Tis true, perfection none must hope to find 
In all this world, much less in womankind. 

Pope, January and May, lines 190, 191 



Feast— Feet 129 

Feast. — Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, 
Midnight shout and revelry, 
Tipsy dance and jollity. — Milton, Comus, lines 102-104 

The feast is sold . . . 
'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home; 
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony; 
Meeting were bare without it. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 
Feast, and your halls are crowded; 

Fast, and the world goes by; 
Succeed and give, and it helps you live, 
But no man can help you die. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, st. 3 

Feeble. — 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, 
But to support him after. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 1 

Feeling. — The warm, champagny, old-particular, brandy- 
punchy feeling. Holmes, Nux Postccenatica, st. 17 

Feelings. — Every person's feelings have a front-door and a 
side-door by which they may be entered. The front- 
door is on the street . . . The side-door opens at once 
into the secret chambers. There is almost always at 
least one key to this side-door. This is carried for years 
hidden in a mother's bosom. Fathers, brothers, sisters, 
and friends, often, but by no means so universally, have 
duplicates of it. The wedding-ring conveys a right to 
one; alas, if none is given with it! 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi 

Some feelings are to mortals given, 
With less of earth in them than heaven. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto ii, st. 22 

Feet. — Muse of the many-twinkling feet ! — B yron , Waltz, line 1 

Her feet beneath her petticoat, 
Like little mice, stole in and out, 

As if they feared the light i 1 
But oh! she dances such a way! 
No sun upon an Easter day 

Is half so fine a sight. 2 

Sir John Suckling, Ballad upon a Wedding, st. 8 

'Her feet fell patter, cheeo, like little mice. 

Robert Buchanan, The Widow Mysie, st. 7 
Her pretty feet 
Like snails did creep 
A little out, and then, 
As if they started at bo-peep, 

Did soon draw in again. Herrick, Upon Her Feet 

2 And then she danced — oh, heaven! her dancing! 

Praed, Belle of the Ball-Room, st. 2 



130 Fell— Fight 

Fell. — He fought, he conquered, and he fell. 1 

Southey, Inscription xxii: Epitaph 

Fellows. — If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt 
find the best king of good fellows. 2 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 2 

Felony. — There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves 
sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten 
hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: 
all the realm shall be in common. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2 

Ferryman. — That grim [sour] ferryman which poets write of. 
Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 4 

Feud. — Ring out the feud of rich and poor. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 3 

Feuds. — In their faces stern defiance, 
In their hearts the feuds of ages, 
The hereditary hatred, 
The ancestral thirst of vengeance. — Longfellow, 

Song of Hiawatha: The Peace-Pipe, lines 75-78 

Field. — Their dearest action in the tented field. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Fight. When the fight begins within himself, 

A man's worth something. — R. Browning, Bishop 

Blougram's Apology, lines 699, 700 

For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that 's slain. 3 

Butler, Hudibras, III, iii, lines 243, 244 

a General Sir John Moore, killed in the battle of Corufia, Jan. 16, 1809. 

2 The king o' guid fellows and wale of auld men. 

Burns, Auld Rob Morris, st. 1 
3 That same man, that runnith awaie, 
Maie again fight an other daie. Erasmus, Apothegms, (trans. Udall) 

For he who fights and runs away 

May live to fight another day ; 

But he who is in battle slain 

Can never rise and fight again. — Goldsmith, Art of Poetry on a New Plan 

He that fights and runs away 

May turn and fight another day; 

But he that is. in battle slain 

Will never rise to fight again. Ray, History of the Rebellion 

We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow. 

Tennyson, The Revenge, st. 12 
Sometimes we fight and we conquer, 
And sometimes we fight and we run. 

Thackeray, The Chronicle of the Drum, i, st. 6 



Fight— Fire 131 

If you do fight, fight it out; 1 and don't give in while 
you can stand and see. 

T. Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, II, vii 

Twun't du to think thet killin' ain't perlite, — 
You've gut to be in airnest, ef you fight. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 281, 282 

Fifty-four -forty or fight! 

Political {Democratic) slogan in the United States 

Presidential Campaign of 1844 2 

Fighting. — He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, 
fell. — Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 23 

His bellyful [belly full] of fighting. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ii, 1 

Fig-tree. — Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and 
when you are old sit under the shade on it. 

Dickens, Dombey and Son, xix 

Fine. — Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. 

Prior, Henry and Emma, line 430 

Fire. — Those that with haste will make a mighty fire 
Begin it with weak straws. 

Shakespeare, Julius Casar, i, 3 

A little fire is quickly trodden out, 

Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iv, 8 

Ye blew the fire that burns ye. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 3 [2] 

One fire burns out another's burning, 
One pain is lessened by another's anguish. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 2 

Fire that 's closest kept burns most of all. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 2 

Thus have I shunned the fire, for fear of burning, 
And drenched me in the sea, where I am drowned. 

Ibid., i, 3 

1 Stand back to back, in God's name, and fight it to the last. 

Macaulay, The Battle of Naseby, st. 7 

I have fought a good fight. 2 Tim. iv, 7 

2 Referring to the dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon boundary. 



132 Fire— Fishes 

Any captain not under fire is not at his post, and a 
signal to recall him would be a disgrace. 1 

Villeneuve, cited by W. M. Sloane in Napoleon 

Bonaparte, II, xxxii 

Fires. Where two raging fires meet together, 

They do consume the thing that feeds their fury : 
Though little fire grows great with little wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii 

Poor men, when yule is cold, 
Must be content to sit by little fires. 

Tennyson, The Holy Grail, lines 612, 613 

Firmament. — The spacious firmament on high, 
With all the blue ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
Their great Original proclaim. Addison, Ode 

First. — To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, 
and first in the hearts of his countrymen. 

Henry Lee, Eulogy on Washington 

Fish. — Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. 

Dryden, Epilogue to the Duke of Guise 

Fishers. — Three fishers went sailing away to the west, — 
Away to the west as the sun went down; 
Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, 

And the children stood watching them out of the town; 
For men must work, and women must weep, 
And there 's little to earn, and many to keep, 
Though the harbor bar be moaning. 

Three corpses lay out on the shining sands 

In the morning gleam as the tide went down, 
And the women are weeping and wringing their hands 

For those who will never come back to the town ; 
For men must work, and women must weep, 
And the sooner it 's over, the sooner to sleep, 

And good-bye to the bar and its moaning. 

Kingsley, The Three Fishers, st. 1, 3 

Fishes. — O blest south wind that toots his horn 
Through every hole and crack! 
I 'm off at eight to-morrow morn, 
To bring such fishes back. 

Kingsley, The Southwest Wind, st. 3 

J The signal made by the French admiral at the opening of the battle of 
Trafalgar. 



Fishes — Flag 133 

Fishes that tipple in the deep. 

Lovelace, To Althea from Prison, st. 2 

Third Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the 
sea. 

First Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land; the great 
ones eat up the little ones : I can compare our rich misers 
to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and tumbles, 
driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them 
all at a mouthful: such whales have I heard on o' the 
land, who never leave gaping till they 've swallowed the 
whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all. 

Third Fisherman. But if the good King Simonides 
were of my mind, . . . we would purge the land of these 
drones, that rob the bee of her honey. 

Shakespeare, Pericles, ii, 1 

Fish-hook. — It 's a good sight easier to git a fish-hook in 'n 
'tis to git it out. E. N. Westcott, David Harum, i 

Fit. — The fit is momentary ; upon a thought 

He will again be well. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Fits. — 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. 

William Collins, The Passions 

Flag. — Many a one on our decks knew then for the first time 
how tame a sight his country's flag is at home compared 
to what it is in a foreign land. To see it is to have a 
vision of home itself and all its idols, and feel a thrill 
that would stir a very river of sluggish blood. 

S. L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"), The Innocents 

Abroad, vii 
There's a flag that waves o'er every sea, 

No matter when or where; 
And to treat that flag as aught but the free 

Is more than the strongest dare. 
For the lion-spirits that tread the deck 
Have carried the palm of the brave; 
And that flag may sink with a shot-torn wreck, 
But never float over a slave. 

Eliza Cook, The Englishman, st. 2 

Nail to the mast her holy flag, 

Set every threadbare sail, 
And give her to the god of storms, 

The lightning and the gale! 

Holmes, Old Ironsides, st. 3 

One life, one flag, one fleet, one throne! 

Tennyson, Opening of the Indian and Colonial 

Exhibition, st. 4 



134 Flags— Flesh 

Flags. — Forty flags with their silver stars, 
Forty flags with their crimson bars. 

Whittier, Barbara Frietchie, st. 7 

Flatteries. He does me double wrong 

That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 2 

Flattery. — Flattery is the bellows blows up sin. 

Shakespeare, Pericles, i, 2 

Flattery's the food for fools. 

Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa 

Flea. — That 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the 
lip of a lion. Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 7 

So, naturalists observe, a flea 

Has smaller fleas that on him prey; 

And these have smaller still to bite 'em; 

And so proceed ad infinitum. — Swift, Poetry, a Rhapsody 

Fleas. — A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog — 
keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog. 

E. N. Westcott, David Harum, xxxii 

Flesh. Flesh of my flesh, 

Bone of my bone thou art, 1 and from thy state 
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, lines 914-916 2 

Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, 
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! 
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine: 
The court awards it, and the law doth give it. 

Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; 

But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed 

One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods 

Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate 

Unto the state of Venice. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

1 Thou art a collop of my flesh. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, v, 4 

2 See also Paradise Lost, IV, line 483; VIII, line 49s; IX, lines 958, 959 



Flibbertigibbet— Flunked 1 3 5 

Flibbertigibbet. — This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet; he 
begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives 
the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the 
hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor 
creature of earth. Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 4 

Flint. The fire i' the flint 

Shows not till it be struck. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 1 

Flog. — O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, 
Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, 
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, 

It mends their morals, never mind the pain. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 1 

Flogging. — There is now less flogging in our great schools 
than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that 
what the boys get at one end they lose at the other. 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1775 

Flood. — You may as well go stand upon the beach 
And bid the main flood bate his usual height. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Flower. — 'Tis but a little faded flower, 
But oh, how fondly dear! 

Ellen C. Howarth, 'Tis but a Little Faded 

Flower, st. 1 

One thing is certain, and the rest is Lies ; 
The flower that once has blown for ever dies. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 63 

Flower in the crannied wall, 

I pluck you out of the crannies, 

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, 

Little flower — but if I could understand 

What you are, root and all, and all in all, 

I should know what God and man is. 

Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall 

Flowers. — He who hunts for flowers will find flowers ; and he 
who loves weeds may find weeds. — H. W. Beecher, 

Lectures to Young Men, Portrait Gallery, The Cynic 

Flunked. — A keerless man in his talk was Jim, 
And an awkward hand in a row; 
But he never flunked, and he never lied, — 
I reckon he never knowed how. 

John Hay, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, st. 2 



136 Fly— Fool 

Fly. — His back against a rock he bore, 
And firmly placed his foot before: — 
"Come one, come all! this rock shall fly 
From its firm base as soon as I." 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto v, st. 10 

Foam. — The cruel crawling foam. 

Kingsley, The Sands of Dee, st. 4 

Foe. — Whispering with white lips — "The foe! They come! 
they come!" 1 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 25 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 1 

Folly. — When lovely woman stoops to folly, 
And finds too late that men betray, — 
What charm can soothe her melancholy, 
What art can wash her guilt away? 
The only art her guilt to cover, 
To hide her shame from every eye, 
To give repentance to her lover 
And wring his bosom, is — to die. 

Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, II, 5 

Shoot folly as it flies. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, line 13 

Where lives a man that has not tried, 
How mirth can into folly glide, 
And folly into sin! 

Scott, Bridal of Triermain, Canto i, st. 21 

Folly in fools bears not so strong a note 
As foolery in the wise, 2 when wit doth dote. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2 

Fool. — A fool must now and then be right by chance. 

Cowper, Conversation, line 96 

A fool there was and he made his prayer 

(Even as you and I) 
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair 
(We called her the woman who did not care), 
But the fool he called her his lady fair 

(Even as you and I!). 

Kipling, The Vampire, st. 1 

1 And the neigh of the steed and the multitude's hum, 
And the clash and the shout, "They come! they come! " 

Byron, The Siege of Corinth, st. 22 
2 So doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor. 

Ecclesiastes, x, i 



Fool— Fools 137 

No creature smarts so little as a fool. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 84 

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, 
A motley fool. 

"Good morrow, fool," quoth I. "No, sir," quoth he, 
"Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune." 



O noble fool! 
A worthy fool ! Motley 's the only wear. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Jaques. I was seeking for a fool when I found you. 
Orlando. He is drowned in the brook: look but in, 
and you shall see him. Ibid., iii, 2 

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man 
knows himself to be a fool. Ibid., v, 1 

They fool me to the top of my bent. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 5 

A fool's bolt is soon shot. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 7 

Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy? 
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; 
that thou wast born with. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 4 

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, i, 5 

There's no fool like the old one. 

Tennyson, The Grandmother, st. 11 

Be wise with speed, 
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 

Young, Love of Fame, Satire ii, lines 281, 282 

Foolery. — Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs 
the world. John Selden, Table Talk: Pope 

Fools. — Fools for arguments use wagers. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, i, line 298 

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, 
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 438, 439 



138 Fools — Forbearance 

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Ibid., line 625 

What fools these mortals be ! 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, iii, 2 

She was a wight, if ever such wight were, — . . . 
To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 1 

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. 

Young, Night Thoughts, TV, line 843 

Foot. — Now as they bore him off the field, 
Said he, "Let others shoot, 
For here I leave my second leg, 
And the Forty-Second Foot!" 

Hood, Faithless Nelly Gray 

His very foot has music in 't 
As he comes up the stair. 

W. J. Mickle, The Sailor's Wife, st. 5 

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is 
MacGregor. Scott, Rob Roy, xxxiv 

Footprints. — Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time; 1 

Footprints, that perhaps another, 

Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, 

Seeing, shall take heart again. 2 

Longfellow, Psalm of Life, st. 7, 8 

Forbear. — The kindest and the happiest pair 
Will find occasion to forbear; 
And something every day they live 
To pity, and perhaps forgive. 

Cowper, Mutual Forbearance, lines 37-40 

Forbearance. — There is, however, a limit at which forbear- 
ance ceases to be a virtue. Burke 

1 So from the bosom of darkness our days come roaring and gleaming, 
Chafe and break into foam, sink into darkness again. 
But on the shores of Time each leaves some trace of its passage, 
Though the succeeding wave washes it out from the sand. 

Longfellow, A Fragment, August 4, 1856 

2 So when a great man dies, 
For years beyond our ken, 
The light he leaves behind him lies 

Upon the paths of men. Longfellow, Charles Sumner, st. 9 



Force— Forgetfulness 139 

Force. Who overcomes 

By force hath overcome but half his foe. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 648, 649 
Do we must what force will have us do. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 3 

Foreign. — By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, 
By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourned. 

Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, lines 51-54 

Forest. — This is the forest primeval. 

Longfellow, Evangeline, Introduction, line 1 

Forever. — Forever! Tis a single word! 

And yet our fathers deemed it two : 
Nor am I confident they erred; 

Are you? C. S. Calverly, Forever, st. 9 

Forget. — The tumult and the shouting dies, — 
The Captains and the Kings depart, — 

Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, 
An humble and a contrite heart. 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 

Far-called, our navies melt away, — 

On dune and headland sinks the fire, 
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 

Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! 
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, 
Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 

Kipling, Recessional, st. 2, 3 

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget! 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, lines 189, 190 

Urge me no more, I shall forget myself; 

Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccssar, iv, 3 

Pray you now, forget and forgive. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 7 

Forgetfulness. — For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, 
This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, 
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, 
Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind? 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country 

Churchyard, st. 23 



mo Forgetting — Fortress 

Forgetting.— How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! 
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, lines 207, 208 

Forgive. — To err is human, to forgive, divine. 1 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, line 525 

Forgiven. I think, in the lives of most women and men, 
There 's a moment when all would go smooth and even, 
If only the dead could find out when 
To come back, and be forgiven. 

E. R. Bulwer-Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), 

Aux Italiens, st. 27 

Forgiveness. — Forgiveness to the injured does belong; 
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. 2 

Dryden, Conquest of Granada, Part II, i, 2 

Stretch out your hand to me, Douglas, Douglas, 
Drop forgiveness from heaven like dew; 

As I lay my heart on your dead heart, Douglas, 
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, Too Late, st. 5 

Forgiving. — Our sex are still forgiving at their heart; 
And did not wicked custom so contrive, 
We 'd be the best good-natured things alive. 

Pope, Epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore, lines 12-14 

Forgotten. When I am forgotten, as I shall be, 

And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention 
Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; 
Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, 
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, 
Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; 
A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Form. Who would keep an ancient form 

Through which the spirit breathes no more? 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cv, st. 5 

Fortress. — A mighty fortress is our God. 

Martin Luther, Hymn (trans. F. H. Hedge), st. 1 

1 Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke xxiii, 34 

Yet, Lorde, I thee desire, 

For that they doe to me, 
Let them not taste the hire 

Of their iniquitie. Anne Askewe, The Fight of Faith, st. 14 

2 The offender never pardons. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum 



Fortune — Foul 141 

Fortune. — Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune; 
He had not the method of making a fortune. 1 

Thomas Gray, Of Himself 

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, 
But yet she never gave enough to any. 

Sir J. Harrison, Epigram 

Nor was it hard to move the lady's mind; 
When Fortune favours, still the Fair are kind. 

Pope, January and May, lines 303, 304 

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 3 

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud; 
Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud; 

Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands; 
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands; 
For man is man and master of his fate. 2 

Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint, lines 347-355 

Fortunes. We are ready to try our fortunes 
To the last man. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 2 

All the unsettled humours of the land, 

Have sold their fortunes at their native homes, 
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs, 
To make a hazard of new fortunes here. 

Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 

All my fortunes are at sea. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 

Fossils. The way they heaved those fossils in their anger 
was a sin, 
Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of 
Thompson in. 

Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus, st. 8 

Foul. As foul 

As Vulcan's stithy. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

1 Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, 

Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; 

For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; 

And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, st. 3 
2 Cf. Fate. 



142 Fowls — Freedom 

Fowls. — When fowls have no feathers, and fish have no fin. 
Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, iii, i 

Fox. When the fox hath once got in his nose, 

He '11 soon find means to make the body follow. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iv, 7 

Frailty. — Ye high, exalted, virtuous dames, 
Tied up in godly laces, 
Before ye gi'e poor Frailty names, 

Suppose a change o' cases; 
A dear-loved lad, convenience snug, 

A treacherous inclination — 
But, let me whisper i' your lug, 
Ye 're aiblins nae temptation. 

Burns, Address to the Unco Guid, st. 6 

Frailty, thy name is woman! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

France. — They order . . . this matter better in France. 

Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, Introduction 

Free. — Free soil, free speech, free labour, and free men. 1 

Slogan of the Free Soil Party, adopted August, 1848 

Freedom. Freedom's battle once begun, 

Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, 
Though baffled oft, is ever won. 

Byron, The Giaour, lines 123-125 

Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, 
Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime; 
Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, 
Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe! 
Dropped from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, 
Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career — 
Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell 2 
And Freedom shrieked — as Kosciusko fell. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, i, st. 36 

What is freedom, but the unfettered use 
Of all the powers which God for use had given? 

S. T. Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations, st. 3 

The sun that rose on freedom rose in blood. Ibid. 

x Free speech, free press, free soil, free men, Fremont, and victory. 

Slogan of the Republican Party in the Campaign of 1856 

2 Hope withering fled — and Mercy sighed farewell!* 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 9 



*Cf. Hope. 



Freedom 143 

Up with our standard, wide and high, when glory leads 

the fight, 
And let the nations fear our cry of "Freedom and the 

right." 

Eliza Cook, Freedom and the Right, lines 15, 16 

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, 
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. 

Cowpee, Table Talk, lines 260, 261 

They that fight for freedom undertake 
The noblest cause mankind can have at stake. 

Ibid., lines 284, 285 

What avail the plough or sail, 
Or land or life, if freedom fail? Emerson, Boston 

Freedom ain't a gift 
Thet tarries long in han's o' cowards! 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, x, st. 21 

When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad 

earth's aching breast 
Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east 

to west, 
And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within 

him climb 
To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime 
Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem 

of Time. Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 1 

Once we thought that holy Freedom 

Was a cursed and tainted thing; 
Foe of Peace, and Law, and Virtue; 

Foe of Magistrate and King; 
That all vile degraded passion 

Ever followed in her path; 
Lust and Plunder, War and Rapine, 

Tears and Anarchy and Wrath; 
That the angel was a cruel, 

Haughty, blood-stained Amazon. 
Old opinions! rags and tatters! 

Get you gone! get you gone! 

Charles Mackay, Old Opinions, st. 3 

Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes. 

The only throb she gives, 
Is when some heart indignant breaks, 

To show that still she lives. — T. Moore, The Harp 

That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 2 



144 Freedom— Fret 

Of old sat Freedom on the heights. 
. Tennyson, Of Old Sat Freedom, st. i 

\ A land of settled government, 

j A land of just and old renown, 

| Where Freedom slowly broadens down 

| From precedent to precedent. 

Tennyson, You Ask Me Why, st. 3 

Wherever outraged Nature 

Asks word or action brave, 
Wherever struggles labour, 

Wherever groans a slave, — 

Wherever rise the peoples, 

Wherever sinks a throne, 
The throbbing heart of Freedom finds 

An answer in his own. 

Whittier, The Hero, st. 24, 25 

Freeman. — He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, 
And all are slaves beside. — Cowper, The Task : The 

Winter Morning Walk, lines 733, 734 

When your youngest, the mealy-mouthed rector, 

Lets your soul rot asleep to the grave, 
You will find in your God the protector 

Of the freeman you fancied your slave. 

Kingsley, The Bad Squire, 1 st. 19 

A weapon that comes down as still 

As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; 
But executes a freeman's will, 

As lightning does the will of God. 2 

John Pierpont, A Word from a Petitioner, st. 14 

Showed their fierce zeal a worthier cause, 
And brought the freeman's arm to aid the freeman's laws. 
Scott, Marmion, Introd. to Canto i 

Frenchman. — The Frenchman's darling [mignonette]. 

Cowper, The Task: The Winter Evening, line 765 

Fret. — Fret till your proud heart breaks. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

1 Also known as "A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter." 

2 Not lightly fall 

Beyond recall 
The written scrolls a breath can float; 

The crowning fact, 

The kingliest act 
Of Freedom is the freeman's vote! — Whittier, The Eve of Election, st. 8 



Friar — Friends 145 

Friar. — It was a friar of orders grey 1 
Walked forth to tell his beads; 
And he met with a lady fair 
Clad in a pilgrim's weeds. 

Thomas Percy, The Friar of Orders Grey 

(Adapted from old ballads), st. i 

Friend. — To mark a friend's remains these stones arise — 
I never knew but one, and here he lies. 

Byron, Inscription on the Monument of a 

Newfoundland Dog, lines 25, 26 

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, 
Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow; 
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, 
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend! 

G. Canning, New Morality 

A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not dan- 
ger's post; 

And, like the lifeboat, proves a friend when friends are 
wanted most. 

Eliza Cook, The Lifeboat Is a Gallant Bark, st. 2 

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, 
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. 

Shakespeare, Julius Cazsar, iv, 3 

The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, 
The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit 
In doing courtesies, and one in whom 
The ancient Roman honour more appears 
Than any that draws breath in Italy. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

He makes no friend who never made a foe. 

Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine, line 1082 

Friends. — None wrote his epitaph, nor saw the beauty 
Of the pure love that reached into the grave, 
Nor how in unobtrusive ways of duty 

He kept, despite the dark; but men less brave 
Have left great names, while not a willow bends 
Above his dust, — poor Jo, he had no friends! 

Alice Cary, Uncle Jo, st. 10 

He 2 cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, 
For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. 
Goldsmith, Retaliation, st. 8 

1 It was the friar of orders grey, 
As he forth walked on his way. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 1 

2 David Garrick. 



146 Friends — Fruit 

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you 

friendship 
Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and 
dearest ! 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Slandish, 

vi, lines 72, 73 
We have been friends together — 

Shall a light word part us now? — Lady Caroline 

Norton, We Have Been Friends Together 

Where are my friends? — I am alone, 

No playmate shares my beaker — 
Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, 

And some before the Speaker; 
And some compose a tragedy, 

And some compose a rondo; 
And some draw sword for liberty, 

And some draw pleas for John Doe. 

Praed, School and School-Fellows, st. 5 

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his 
old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. 

John Selden, Table Talk: Friends 

Those [The] friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

You knot of mouth-friends! 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iii, 6 

Friendship. — Friendship's the wine of life ; but friendship new 
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 588, 589 

Friendships. — So vanish friendships only made in wine. 

Tennyson, Geraint and Enid, line 479 

Front. — To front a lie in arms and not to yield. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 5 

Frown. — Fear no more the frown o' the great; 
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 2 

Fruit. — The ripest fruit first falls. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, ii, 1 

The weakest kind of fruit 
Drops earliest to the ground. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, r 



Fruit— Gale 147 

The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name. 

Young, Night Thoughts, V, line 774 

Fuel. — Adding fuel to the flame. 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, line 1351 

Fun. — There 's fun in everything we meet, — 
The greatest, worst, and best ; 
Existence is a merry treat, 
And every speech a jest. 

J. R. Drake, The Man Who Frets at Strife, st. 2 

Funeral. The funeral baked meats 

Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

Future. — Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! 
Let the dead Past bury its dead! 

Longfellow, Psalm of Life, st. 6 

masters, lords and rulers in all lands, 
How will the Future reckon with this man? 
How answer his brute question in that hour 
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world? 
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings 
With those who shaped him to the thing he is — 
When this dumb Terror shall reply to God, 
After the silence of the centuries? 

Edwin Markham, The Man with the Hoe, st. 6 

1 know not what the future hath 

Of marvel or surprise, 
Assured alone that life and death 
His mercy underlies. 

Whittier, The Eternal Goodness, st. 16 

Fuzzy- Wuzzy. — So 'ere 's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome 

in the Soudan; 
You're a pore benighted 'eathen, but a first-class fightin' 

man; 
An ere 's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 

'air — 
You big black boundin' beggar — for you broke a British 

square! Kipling, Fuzzy-Wuzzy 

Gaberdine. — You call me misbeliever, cut -throat dog, 
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, 
And all for use of that which is mine own. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Gale. The gale was high, 

The sea was all a boiling seething froth, 
And God Almighty's guns were going off, 
A.nd the land trembled. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 



148 Gall— Gazelle 

Gall. — Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write 
with a goose-pen. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 2 

Game. — There 's blood on your new foreign shrubs, squire, 
There 's blood on your pointer's feet; 
There 's blood on the game you sell, squire, 
And there 's blood on the game you eat. 

Kingsley, The Bad Squire, 1 st. 8 
The game is up. Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 3 

Gangrened. Gangrened members must be lopped away, 

Before the nobler parts are tainted to decay. 

Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, I, lines 248, 249 

Garden. — Come into the garden, Maud, 

For the black bat, night, has flown, 
Come into the garden, Maud. 
I am here at the gate alone. 

Tennyson, Maud, xxii, st. 1 

Gardener. — Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, 

From yon blue heavens above us bent 
The gardener Adam and his wife 

Smile at the claims of long descent. 
Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 
'T is only noble to be good. 2 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 

Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, st. 7 

Garret. — Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. 

Byron, Sketch from Private Life, st. 1 

Gate. — Claps the gate behind thee. 

Cowper, On a Mischievous Bull, st. 6 

Gay. — Lady, when first your mirth 

Flung magic o'er my way, 
Mine was the gayest soul on earth 

When all the earth was gay; 
My songs were full of joy, — 

You might have let them flow; 
My heart was every woman's toy, — 

You might have left it so! Praed, The Parting, st. 5 

Gazelle. — I never nursed a dear gazelle 
To glad me with its soft black eye, 
But when it came to know me well 
And love me it was sure to die! 

T. Moore, Lalla Rookh: The Fire-Worshippers 

1 Also known as "A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter." 
2 We '11 shine in more substantial honours, 
And to be noble we'll be good. Anonymous, Winifreda, st. 2 



Gem — Gentleman 149 

Gem. — Full many a gem of purest ray serene 

The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; 
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 15 

If thou hast crushed a flower, 

The root may not be blighted; 
If thou hast quenched a lamp, 

Once more it may be lighted : 

But if upon the troubled sea 

Thou hast thrown a gem unheeded, 
Hope not that wind or wave will bring 
The treasure back when needed. 

Felicia Hemans, If Thou Hast Crushed 

a Flower, st. 1, 2 

Gems. — Rich and rare were the gems she wore, 
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore; 
But oh! her beauty was far beyond 
Her sparkling gems, or snow-white wand. 

T. Moore, Rich and Rare, etc., st. 1 

Generalities. — The glittering and sounding generalities of 
natural right which make up the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence. — Rufus Choate, Letter to Maine Whig 

Committee, Aug. 9, 1856 

Genteelly. — Heaven grant him now some noble nook, 
For, rest his soul! he 'd rather be 
Genteelly damned beside a Duke, 
Than saved in vulgar company. 

T. Moore, Epitaph on a Tuft-Hunter, st. 5 

Gentleman. — I '11 sing you a good old song, 

Made by a good old pate, 
Of a fine old English gentleman 

Who had an old estate, 
And who kept up his old mansion 

At a bountiful old rate; 
With a good old porter to relieve 

The old poor at his gate, 
Like a fine old English gentleman 

All of the olden time. 

Anonymous, The Fine Old English Gentleman, st. 1 

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, 
Who was then the gentleman? 

Of uncertain origin; alleged to be cited by 

John Ball during' Wat Tyler's Rebellion 



1 50 Gentleman — Gentlemen 

That gentilman Jhesus. 

Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry 

Loke who that is most vertuous alway, 
Privee and apert, and most entendeth ay 

To do the gentil dedes that he can, 1 

And tak him for the grettest gentilman. 

Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, lines 257-260 

First Clown. There is no ancient gentlemen but gar- 
deners, ditchers, and grave-makers : they hold up Adam's 
profession. 

Second Clown. Was he a gentleman? 

First Clown. He was the first that ever bore arms. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

A kinder gentleman treads not the earth. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 8 

And thus he bore without abuse 

The grand old name of gentleman, 

Defamed by every charlatan, 
And soiled with all ignoble use. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxi, st. 6 

O selfless man and stainless gentleman, 

Who would 'st against thine own eye-witness fain 

Have all men true and leal, all women pure. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, lines 790-792 

Come wealth or want, come good or ill, 

Let young and old accept their part, 
And bow before the Awful Will, 

And bear it with an honest heart, 
Who misses or who wins the prize. 

Go, lose or conquer as you can; 
But if you fail, or if you rise, 

Be each, pray God, a gentleman. 

Thackeray, The End of the Play, st. 9 

Gentlemen. — The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. 

Byron, Beppo, st. 76 

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. 

G. Colman the Younger, Lodgings for Single 

Gentlemen 

x He is gentil that doth gentil dedis. 

Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, line 314 
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne, 
For a man by nothing is so well betrayd 
As by his manners. Spenser, Faerie Queene, VI, Canto iii, st. 1 



German — Gift-horse 1 5 1 

German. — A graceless, worthless wight thou must be; 
No German maid desires thee, 
No German song inspires thee, 
No German Rhine-wine fires thee. 
Forth in the van, 
Man by man, 
Swing the battle-sword who can. 

Karl T. Korner, Men and Boys (trans. C. T. 

Brooks), st. 1 

Getting-up. — Let Taylor preach upon a morning breezy, 
How well to rise while nights and larks are flying — 
For my part getting up seems not so easy 
By half as lying. 

Talk not to me of bees and such like hums, 1 
The smell of sweet herbs at the morning prime — 
Only lie long enough, and bed becomes 
A bed of time. 

An early riser Mr. Gray has drawn, 
Who used to haste the dewy grass among, 
"To meet the sun upon the upland lawn" — 
Well — he died young. 

Hood, Morning Meditations, st. i, 3, 8 

Ghosts. — Mysterious one, and proud! 

In the land where shadows reign, 
Hast thou met the flocking ghosts of those 

Who at thy nod were slain? 
Oh, when the cry of that spectral host 

Like a rushing blast shall be, 
What will thine answer be to them? 

And what thy God's to thee? — L. H. Sigourney, 

The Return of Napoleon from St. Helena, st. j.4 

Giant. Oh! it is excellent 

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

Giddy. — He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

Gift-horse. Loth 

To look a gift-horse in the mouth. 2 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 489, 490 

'A colloquial abbreviation of "humbugs." 

2 He always looked a gift-horse in the mouth. Rabelais, I, xi 



152 Gild — Glory- 

Gild. — To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper -light 
■ To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 1 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

Girdle. — I '11 put a girdle round about the earth 
In forty minutes. 2 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii, 1 

Glad. — Be glad, and your friends are many; 
Be sad, and you lose them all; 
There are none to decline your nectared wine, 
But alone you must drink life's gall. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, st. 2 

Gladiator. — I see before me the gladiator lie : 
He leans upon his hand — his manly brow 
Consents to death, but conquers agony. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 140 

Glass. — And when like her, oh Saki, you shall pass 
Among the guests star-scattered on the grass, 

And in your joyous [blissful] errand reach the spot 
Where I made one — turn down an empty glass. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubaiy&t (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 10 1 

The generous glass . . . inspired to wake 
The life-refining soul of decent wit. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, lines 88, 89 

Glisten. — God made sech nights, all white and still 
Fur 'z you can look or listen, 
Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, 

All silence an' all glisten. — Lowell, The Courtin', st. 1 

Glory. — The combat deepens. On, ye brave, 
Who rush to glory, or the grave! 3 

Campbell, Hohenlinden, st. 7 

1 True coral needs no painter's brush, 
Nor need be daubed with red. 

G. W. Thornbury, The Jester's Sermon, st. 14 

2 Away! away! through the sightless air 
Stretch forth your iron thread! 
For I would not dim my sandals fair 

"With the dust ye tamely tread! 
Ay, rear it up on its million piers. 
Let it circle the world around, 
And the journey ye make in a hundred years 
I '11 clear at a single bound! 

G. W. Cutter, Song of the Lightning, st. 1 

3 Who track the steps of glory to the grave. 

Byron, Death of Sheridan, line 74 



Glory — God 153 

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord : 
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath 

are stored; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift 
sword : 

His truth is marching on. — Julia Ward Howe, 

Battle-Hymn of the Republic, st. i 
Go where glory waits thee. T. Moore, Irish Melodies 

I have ventured, 
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 
This many summers in a sea of glory, 
But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride 
At length broke under me, and now has left me, 
Weary and old with service, to the mercy 
Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Slowly and sadly we laid him down, 

From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; 

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — 
But we left him alone with his glory. 

Charles Wolfe, Burial of Sir John Moore, st. 8 

Gloves. — Wear seemly gloves; not black, nor yet too light, 
And least of all the pair that once was white ; 

Shave like the goat, if so your fancy bids, 
But be a parent, — don't neglect your kids. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 49 

Glow-worm. — The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his ineffectual fire. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Goblet. — Alas for the loved one ! too spotless and fair 
The joys of his banquet to chasten and share; 
Her eye lost its light that his goblet might shine, 
And the rose of her cheek was dissolved in his wine. 

Holmes, Song for a Temperance Dinner, st. 3 

Goblins. — The Gobble-uns '11 git you ef you don't watch out ! 
James Whitcomb Riley, Little Orphant Annie 

God. — It were better to have no opinion of God at all than 
such an opinion as is unworthy of Him. 

Bacon, Essay XVII: Of Superstition 

Earth's crammed with heaven, 
And every common bush afire with God. 

E. B. Browning, Aurora Leigh, VII, lines 850, 851 



154 God 

God — Continued 

I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our in- 
completeness , — 
'Round our restlessness, His rest. — Elizabeth B. 

Browning, Rhyme of the Duchess May, ad finem 

God 's in his heaven — 
All's right with the world! 1 

R. Browning, Pippa Passes, i 

The Muezza's call doth shake the minaret, 
"There is no god but God! — to prayer — lo! God is 
great!" 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 59 

We hailed it in God's name. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 66 

So lonely 'twas, that God himself 

Scarce seemed there to be. Ibid., lines 599, 600 

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. 

S. T. Coleridge, Hymn Before Sunrise, line 85 

God moves in a mysterious way 

His wonders to perform; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea, 

And rides upon the storm. 2 

Cowper, Light Shining out of Darkness, st. 1 



iGod reigneth. All is well! Holmes, Hymn, 3 

When the wind blows, the blossoms fall, 
But a good God reigns over all! 

Charles Mackay, The Child and the Mourners 

Before me, even as behind, 

God is, and all is well! Whittier, My Birthday, st. 2 

2 God hath his mysteries of grace, 
Ways that we cannot tell ; 
He hides them deep, like the secret sleep 

Of him he loved so well. C. F. Alexander, Burial of Moses, st. 10 

God is a spirit,* veiled from human sight, 
In secret darkness of eternal light; 
Through all the glory of his works we trace 
The hidings of his council and his face; 
Nature, and time, and change, and fate fulfil, 
Unknown, unknowing, his mysterious will; 
Mercies and judgments mark him, every hour, 
Supreme in grace, and infinite in power. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, st. is 



*God is a spirit. John iv, 24 



God 155 

God is his own interpreter 1 

And he will make it plain. Ibid., st. 6 

Oh! for a closer walk with God! 

Cowper, Walking with God, st. 1 

With ravished ears 
The monarch hears, 

Assumes the god, 

Affects to nod, 
And seems to shake the spheres. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, lines 37-41 

To thee I turn, to thee I make my prayer, 
God of the open air. 



For men have dulled their eyes with sin, 
And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt, 
And built their temple walls to shut thee in, 
And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out. 

Henry van Dyke, God of the Open Air, st. 1, 3 

"Come to thy God in time!" 
Rang out Tintagel chime. 
"Youth, manhood, old age, past, 
Come to thy God at last!" 

R. S. Hawker, Silent Tower of Bottreaux, st. 3 

One unquestioned text we read, 
All doubt beyond, all fear above, 
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed 
Can burn or blot it: God is Love! 2 

Holmes, What We All Think, st. 10 

Man proposes, but God disposes. 

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, I, xix, 2 

1 Do not tell me the Almighty Master 
Would work a miracle to save the one. 
And yield the other up to dire disaster,* 

By merely human justice thus outdone! 

Vainly we weep and wrestle with our sorrow — 

We cannot see his roads, they lie so broad: 
But his eternal day knows no to-morrow, 

And life and death are all the same with God. 

Celia Thaxter, Wherefore, st. 10, 11 

z God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that. 

R. Browning, Paracelsus, v 



* Alluding to the narrow escape of one ship from wreck on an iceberg, and 
the destruction of another without warning. 



156 God 

God — Continued 

As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, 
Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God : 

By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod 
I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God. 

Lanier, The Marshes of Glynn, st. 8 

Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, 

Who have faith in God and Nature, 

Who believe, that in all ages 

Every human heart is human, 

That in even savage bosoms 

There are longings, yearnings, strivings 

For the good they comprehend not, 

That the feeble hands and helpless 

Groping blindly in the darkness, 

Touch God's right hand in that darkness 

And are lifted up and strengthened; 

Listen to this simple story, 

To this song of Hiawatha! — Longfellow, Song of 

Hiawatha, Introduction, lines 88-100 
Ef you take a sword an' dror it, 

An' go stick a feller thru, 
Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, 

God '11 send the bill to you. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, i, 6 

I ha'n't no patience with sech swellin' fellers ez 
Think God can't forge 'thout them to blow the bellerses. 
Ibid., II, ii, lines 169, 170 
O God ! thy arm was here ; 
And not to us, but to thy arm alone, 
Ascribe we all. 

And be it death proclaimed through our host 
To boast of this or take that praise from God 
Which is his only. 

Let there be sung "Non nobis'! and "Te Deum." 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 8 

You are one of those that will not serve God, if the 
devil bid you. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

God b' wi* you, with all my heart. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 

By the splendour of God ! x 

Cited in Sterne, Tristram Shandy, III, xii 

1 The favourite oath of William the Conqueror. 



God— Gold 157 

A God all mercy is a God unjust. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, line 234 

Goddess. — Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. 
A woman I forswore ; but I will prove, 

Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: 
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3 
Godlike. — The seeds of Godlike power are in us still. 

Matthew Arnold, Written in Emerson's Essays, st. 4 

Gods. What can be avoided 

Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, ii, 2 

God's-Acre. — I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls 
The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; 
It consecrates each grave within its walls, 

And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust. 

Longfellow, God's-Acre, st. 1 

Going. Men must endure 

Their going hence, even as their coming hither : 
Ripeness is all. Shakespeare, King Lear, v, 2 

Stand not upon the order of your going, 

But go at once. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Gold.— Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! 

Bright and yellow, hard and cold, 
Molten, graven, hammered, and rolled: 
Heavy to get, and light to hold; 
Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, 
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled: 
Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old 
To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; 
Price of many a crime untold; 
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold: 
Good or bad a thousandfold! 

How widely its agencies vary — 
To save — to ruin — to curse — to bless — 
As even its minted coins express, 
Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, 
And now of a Bloody Mary! 1 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Moral 

iGold hath the hue of hell flames. — Bailey, Festus, Scene — Anywhere. 
That gold, for which unpitied Indians fell. 
That gold, at once the snare and scourge of hell. 
Thenceforth by righteous Heaven was doomed to shed 
Unmingled curses on the spoiler's head; 
For gold the Spaniard cast his soul away, — 
His gold and he were every nation's prey. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, i, st. 12 
He buys, he sells, he steals, he kills for gold. Ibid., iii, st. f. 



158 Gold— Gone 

Gold provokes the world to arms. 

T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon, xxix 

Judges and senates have been bought for gold, 1 
Esteem and love were never to be sold. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 187, 188 

Gold must be tried by fire, 
As a heart must be tried by pain! 

A. A. Procter, Cleansing Fires, st. 1 

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt ! 

And [As] 'tis no better reckoned, but of those 

Who worship dirty gods. — Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 6 

All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold. 2 

Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, line 787 

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, 

Doing more murders in this loathsome world, 

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 1 

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led 
by the nose with gold : show the inside of your purse to 
the outside of his hand, and no more ado. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 7 

Gone. — Not dead but gone before. 3 Rogers, Human Life 

1 Saint-seducing gold. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 1 

2 A1 thing, which that shyneth as the gold 
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told. 

Chaucer, The Chanouns Yemannes Tale, lines 409, 410 

Nor all that glisters gold. Gray, On a Favourite Cat, st. 7 

All is not gold that glisters. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum 

All is not golde that outward sheweth bright. 

Lydgate, On Human Affairs 

All is not gold that glisteneth. Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, v, 1 

All that glisters is not gold. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 7 

Yet gold al is not that doth golden seeme. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, II, 8, st. 14 

3 Gone before 
To that unknown and silent shore. Lamb. Hester 






Good 159 

Good. — It 's wiser being good than bad ; * 

It 's safer being meek than fierce : 
It 's fitter being sane than mad. 

My own hope is, a sun will pierce 
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; 

That, after Last, returns the First, 
Though a wide compass 'round be fetched; 

That what began best, can't end worst, 
Nor what God blessed once, prove accursed. 

R. Browning, Apparent Failure, st. 7 

Too high for common selfishness, he could 
At times resign his own for others' good, 
But not in pity, not because he ought, 
But in some strange perversity of thought, 
That swayed him onward with a secret pride 
To do what few or none would do beside. 

Byron, Lara, Canto i, st. 18 

The strong gods pine for my abode, 

And pine in vain the sacred Seven; 
But thou, meek lover of the good! 

Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. 

Emerson, Brahma, st. 4 

Learn the luxury of doing good. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, st. 2 

There's a good time coming, boys, 

A good time coming: 
We may not live to see the day, 
But earth shall glisten in the ray 

Of the good time coming. 
Cannon-balls may aid the truth, 

But thought 's a weapon stronger; 
We '11 win our battle by its aid ; 

Wait a little longer. 

Charles Mackay, The Good Time Coming, st. 1 

When the good man yields his breath 

(For the good man never dies), 

Bright beyond the gulf of death, 

Lo! the land of promise lies. — James Montgomery, 

The Wanderer of Switzerland, v, st. 1 

Can one desire too much of a good thing? 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv, 1 

It is not nor it cannot come to good. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

1 Better, though difficult, the right way to go, 
Than wrong, — though easy, where the end is woe. 

Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, I, stage iii 



160 Good— Good-night 

It was alway[s] yet the trick of our English nation, if 
they have a good thing, to make it too common. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

What care I who calls me well or ill, 
So you o'er -green my bad, my good allow? 

Shakespeare, Sonnet cxii 

Oh, yet we trust that somehow good 

Will be the final goal of ill, 

To pangs of nature, sins of will, 
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; 

That nothing walks with aimless feet; 

That not one life shall be destroyed, 

Or cast as rubbish to the void, 
When God hath made the pile complete; 

That not a worm is cloven in vain ; 

That not a moth with vain desire 

Is shrivelled in a fruitless fire, 
Or but subserves another's gain. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, liv, st. 1-3 

Ring in the common love of good. Ibid., cvi, st. 6 

From seeming evil still educing good. 

James Thomson, Hymn on the Seasons, line 114 

Prayers of love like rain-drops fall, 

Tears of pity are cooling dew, 
And dear to the heart of our Lord are all 

Who suffer like Him in the good they do! 

Whittier, The Robin, st. 7 

Goodness. — There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 1 

A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were, 
To an untirable and continuate goodness. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 1 

The wrong that pains my soul below 

I dare not throne above: 
I know not of His hate, — I know 

His goodness and His love. 

Whittier, The Eternal Goodness, st. 13 

Good-night. — My native land — good-night! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 13 (1) 



Gordian— Gracious 161 

Gordian. — Turn him to any cause of policy, 
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 
Familiar as his garter. — Shakespeare, King Henry V, i, i 

Gorgons. — Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimasras dire. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, II, line 628 

Gospel. — The gospel's sound, diffused from pole to pole, 
Where winds can carry, and where waves can roll. 

Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, lines 1124, 1125 

Gossips. — By this the lazy gossips of the port, 
Abhorrent of a calculation crossed, 
Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, lines 469-471 

Govern. — The right divine of kings to govern wrong. 

Pope, The Dunciad, IV, line 188 

Government. — Th' older a guv'ment is, the better 't suits; 
New ones hunt folks's corns out like new boots. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 311 312 

For forms of government let fools contest ; 
Whate'er is best administered is best; 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iii, lines 303, 304 

Governments. — To secure these rights, governments are in- 
stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the 
consent of the governed. 

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence 

Gown. — I never saw a better -fashioned gown, 

More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3 
I passed beside the reverend walls 
In which of old I wore the gown. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvii, st. 1 

Grace. — Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
In every gesture dignity and love. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII, lines 488, 489 
Break, break, break, 

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! 
But the tender grace of a day that is dead 
Will never come back to me. 

Tennyson, Break, Break, st. 4 

Gracious. He is gracious, if he be observed: 

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity: 
Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he 's flint, 
As humourous as winter, and as sudden 
As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 4 



1 62 Graduates — Grave 

Graduates. — With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, 
And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair. 

Tennyson, The Princess, Prologue, lines 141, 142 

Granary. — The exhaustless granary of a world. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, line 77 

Grandam. Go to it grandam, child; 

Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will 
Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig : 
There's a good grandam. 

Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 

Grant. — "I was with Grant" — the stranger said; 
Said the farmer, "Say no more, 
But rest thee here at my cottage porch, 
For thy feet are weary and sore." 

Said the aged man, 

"[I] should have remarked before, 

That I was with Grant, — in Illinois, — 

Some three years before the war." 

Bret Harte, The Aged Stranger, st. 1, 7 

Grape. — The Grape that can with logic absolute 
The two-and-seventy jarring sects confute; 1 

The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice 
Life's leaden metal into gold transmute. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 59 

Grass. — He gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make 
two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a 
spot of ground where only one grew before, would de- 
serve better of mankind, and do more essential service 
to his country, than the whole race of politicians put 
together. Swift, Voyage to Brobdingnag, vii 

Grave. The grave, dread thing! 

Men shiver when thou 'rt named; Nature, appalled, 
Shakes off her wonted firmness. 

R. Blair, The Grave, lines 9-1 1 

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, 
From grave to light; from pleasant to severe. 2 

Dryden, Art of Poetry, lines 75, 76 

1 These principles your jarring sects unite, 
When differing doctors and disciples fight. 

Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, lines 686, 687 

2 Formed by thy converse, happily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 379, 380 



Grave 163 

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Await alike the inevitable hour; 

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 10 

Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee, 
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb. 

R. Heber, At a Funeral, ii 

Sat by some nameless grave, and thought that perhaps 

in its bosom 
He was already at rest, and she longed to slumber beside 

him. Longfellow, Evangeline, II, i, lines 32, 33 

Where are the others? Voices from the deep 
Caverns of darkness answer me: "They sleep!" 
I name- no names; instinctively I feel 
Each at some well -remembered grave will kneel, 
And from the inscription wipe the weeds and moss, 
For every heart best knoweth its own loss. 

Longfellow, M oritur i Salutamus, st. 13 

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, 

And our hearts, though stout and brave, 

Still, like muffled drums, are beating 
Funeral marches to the grave. 

Longfellow, Psalm of Life, st. 4 

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! 
O Grave! where is thy victory? 
O Death! where is thy sting? 

Pope, Dying Christian to His Soul, st. 3 

Quiet consummation have; 
And renowned be thy grave! 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 2 

Taking the measure of an unmade grave. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 3 

The earth can yield me but a common grave. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxi 

Under the wide and starry sky, 
Dig the grave and let me lie. 
Glad did I live and gladly die, 
And I laid me down with a will. 

This be the verse you grave for me : 
Here he lies where he longed to be ; 
Home is the sailor, home from sea, 
And the hunter home from the hill. 

R. L. Stevenson, Requiem 



164 Grave — Greatness 

Who knows the inscrutable design? 

Blessed be He who took and gave! 
Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, 

Be weeping at her darling's grave? 

Thackeray, The End of the Play, st. 6 

With one foot in the grave. 

Wordsworth, Michael, line 90 

Grave-maker. — What is he that builds stronger than either 
the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? . . . 
When you are asked this question next, say "a grave- 
maker": the houses that he makes last till domes-day. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Graves. — Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; 
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes 
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iii, 2 

Grease. — Melted him in his own grease. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 1 

Great. — Great on the bench, great in the saddle. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, line 23 

The great man never falls. 

W. W. Lord, On the Defeat of a Great Man, st. 1 

Rightly to be great 
Is not to stir without great argument, 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw 
When honour's at the stake. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 4 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some 
have greatness thrust upon 'em [them]. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 5 

Greater. — Four things greater than all things are, 
Women and horses and power and war. 

Kipling, Ballad of the King's Jest, st. 4 

Greatness. — Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! 
This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; 
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, 
And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely 
His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, 
And then he falls, as I do. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 



Greed— Grief 165 

Greed. — Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf 
There is no shape more terrible than this — 
More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed — 
More filled with signs and portents for the soul — 
More fraught with menace to the universe. 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 2 

Greek. — Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek 
As naturally as pigs squeak; 
That Latin was no more difficile 
Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 51-54 

It was Greek to me. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, i, 2 

Greeks. — When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of 
war. Nathaniel Lee, Alexander the Great, iv, 2 

Green. — Green grow the rashes, oh! 
Green grow the rashes, oh! 
The sweetest hours that e'er I spent, 
Were spent amang the lasses, oh! 

Burns, Green Grow the Rashes 

On the dry smooth-shaven green. 

Milton, II Penseroso, line 66 

Greenwood. — Under the greenwood tree 
Who loves to lie with me. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 5 

Grief. — Inward grief was writhing o'er its task, 
As heart -sick jesters weep behind the mask. 

Hood, Hero and Leander, st. 29 

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: 
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief. 

Shakespeare, King John, iii, 4 

Grief makes one hour ten. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

Give sorrow words ; the grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. _ 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 3 

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 2 

Patch grief with proverbs. Ibid., v, 1 



1 66 Grief— Guards 

When griping grief the heart doth wound, 
And doleful dumps the mind oppress. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 5 

What 's gone and what 's past help 
Should be past grief. — Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iii, 2 

Great griefe will not be tould, 
And can more easily be thought than said. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, I, Canto vii, st. 41 

Ring out the grief that saps the mind. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 3 

Griefs. — Some griefs are med'cinable. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 2 

Grieving. — Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, 
Over the unreturning brave. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 27 

Grind. — My life is one dem'd horrid grind. 

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, lxiv 

Ground. — A time there was, ere England's griefs began, 
When every rood of ground maintained its man. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 4 

When she took the ground, 
She went to pieces like a lock of hay 
Tossed from a pitchfork. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 

Growed. — I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never 
made me. H. B. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, xx 

Grudge. — If I can catch him once upon the hip, 
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Grundy. — What will Mrs. Grundy say? 

T. Morton, Speed the Plough, i, 1 

Guard. — The Guard dies, but never surrenders! 

Attributed to Gen. Cambronne, at Waterloo 1 

Guards. — Up, Guards, make ready! 2 

Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo; 
cited by W. M. Sloane, Napoleon Bonaparte, IV, 202 

'The tradition is denied by W. M. Sloane, Napoleon Bonaparte, IV, 202. 

2 Commonly quoted as "Up, Guards, and at 'em! " Its authenticity has 
been frequently denied. 



Guest — Habits 167 

Guest. — Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 1 
Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Satire ii, 

line 160 
Guests. — The guests are met, the feast is set. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 7 

Guide. — Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend! 2 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, line 390 

Guilt. — And peace went with them, one and all, 
And each calm pillow spread; 
But Guilt was my grim Chamberlain 

That lighted me to bed; 
And drew my midnight curtains round, 
With fingers bloody red! 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 24 

Guinea. — I 've a guinea I can spend, 
I 've a wife, and I 've a friend, 
And a troop of little children at my knee, John Brown. 

Charles Mackay, John Brown, st. 1 

Gun. — For this is England's greatest son, 
He that gained a hundred fights, 
Nor ever lost an English gun. 

Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington, st. 6 
H. — 'Twas whispered in heaven, 3 
'Twas muttered in hell. 

C. M. Fanshawe, Enigma: The Letter H 

Habit. — How use doth breed a habit in a man! 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4 

Habits. — Small habits, well pursued betimes, 
May reach the dignity of crimes. 

Hannah More, Florio, I 

111 habits gather by unseen degrees, 

As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 

Dryden, Ovid's Metamorphoses, XV 

1 Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. 

Pope, Odyssey, xv, line 84 
Time is like a fashionable host 
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, 
And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, 
Grasps in the comer. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 

2 Is this my guide, philosopher, and friend? 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, I, Epistle i, line 177 

3 Another version reads: "'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas," etc. 



1 68 Hack — Hampden 

Hack. — Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, 
Who long was a bookseller's hack; 
He led such a damnable life in this world, — 
I don't think he '11 wish to come back. 1 

Goldsmith, Epitaph on Edward Purdon 

Haggard. If I do prove her haggard, 

Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 

I 'd whistle her off and let her down the wind, 

To prey at fortune. Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

Hair. — My hair is grey, but not with years. 

Byron, Prisoner of Chillon, st. 1 

With hairy springes we the birds betray, 
Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, 
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, 
And beauty draws us with a single hair. 2 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, ii, lines 25-28 

There 's many a man hath more hair than wit. 3 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, ii, 2 

Halcyon. — Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, i, 2 

Half. — My dear, my better half. 4 

Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, III 

Hampden. — Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless 
breast, 
The little tyrant of his fields withstood ; 
Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest; 
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 16 

1 Well, then, poor G lies under ground! 

So there's an end of honest Jack. 
So little justice here he found, 

"Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back. Pope, Epitaph 

2 And though it be a two-foot trout, 
'T is with a single hair pulled out. — Butler, Hudibras, II, iii, lines 13, 14 

Can draw you to her with a single hair. 

Dryden, Persius, Satire v, line 247 
Here in her hairs 
The painter plays the spider and hath woven 
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men 
Faster than gnats in cobwebs. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

3 She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, 1 

*He is the half part of a blessed man, 
Left to be finished by such as she; 
And she a fair divided excellence, 
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. 

Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 [2] 



Hand — Hanging 169 

Hand. My red right hand 1 grows raging hot, 

Like Cranmer's at the stake. 

Hood, The Dream of Etigene Aram 

If the veriest cur would lick my hand, 

I could love it like a child! Hood, The Last Man 

I '11 follow thee and make a heaven of hell, 
To die upon the hand I love so well. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer -Night's Dream, ii, i 
Ferdinand. Here 's my hand. 
Miranda. And mine, with my heart in't. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iii, i 

I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. 2 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 4 

And the stately ships go on 

To their haven under the hill; 
But oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, 

And the sound of a voice that is still. 

Tennyson, Break, Break, st. 3 

Hands. — Cross her hands humbly, 
As if praying dumbly, 
Over her breast ! Hood, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 1 7 

Will these hands ne'er be clean? 

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little 
hand. 3 Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 1 

Hanged. — I '11 see thee hanged first. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 1 

He that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the 
morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iv, 3 

Born to be hanged. Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 1 

Hanging. — They're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'. 

Kipling, Danny Deever 

1 His red right hand. Milton, Paradise Lost, II, line 174 

2 I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand; 
And whiter than the paper it writ on 

Is the fair hand that writ. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 4 

3 What if this cursed hand 
Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, 
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens 

To wash it white as snow? Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood 
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather 
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 
Making the green one red. Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 2 



170 Hanover — Harp 

Hanover. — The illustrious House of Hanover, 
And Protestant succession, 
To these I do allegiance swear, — 
While they can keep possession. 

Anonymous, The Vicar of Bray, st. 6 

Happened. — I put myself in the way of things happening, 
and they happened. 

Theodore Roosevelt, quoted by Jacob Riis 

in Theodore Roosevelt, The Citizen, ii 

Happier. — And feel that I am happier than I know. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII, line 282 

Happiness. — How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 
through another man's eyes! 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 2 

One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4 

Happy. Happy thou art not ; 

For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, 
And what thou hast, forget'st. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

Hark. — Hark! they whisper; Angels say, 
Sister Spirit, come away. 

Pope, Dying Christian to His Soul, st. 2 

Harmony. — The hidden soul of harmony. 

Milton, L' Allegro, line 144 

Harp. — The harp that once through Tara's halls 
The soul of music shed, 
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, 

As if that soul were fled. T. Moore, The Harp 

That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 1 

I hold it truth, with him who sings 
To one clear harp in divers tones, 
That men may rise on stepping-stones 
Of their dead selves to higher things. 1 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, i, st. 1 
A harp of thousand strings. 

Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, ii, 19 

1 Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, 

That of our vices we can frame 
A ladder, if we will but tread 

Beneath our feet each deed of shame! 



Nor deem the irrevocable Past, 

As wholly wasted, wholly vain, 
If, rising on its wrecks, at last 

To something nobler we attain. 

Longfellow, The Ladder of Saint Augustine, st. 



Harping — Head 171 

Harping. — Still harping on my daughter. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Haste. Make haste; the better foot before. 

Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels, 

And fly like thought. Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

Hat. — A hat not much the worse for wear. 

Cowper, John Gilpin, st. 46 

Virtue may flourish in an old cravat, 

But man and nature scorn the shocking hat. 1 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 50 

Hate. — The lust of booty, and the thirst of hate. 

Byron, Lara, Canto ii, st. 11 

Folks never understand the folks they hate. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, line 176 

Hater. — A good hater. 

Samuel Johnson, Johnsoniana, Piozzi, 39 

Head. — All you've got to do is to lay your head well to the 
wind, and we '11 fight through it ! 

Dickens, Dombey and Son, ix 

But first I would remark, that it is not a proper plan 
For any scientific gent to whale his fellow -man, 
And, if a member don't agree with his peculiar whim, 
To lay for that same member for to "put a head " on him. 
Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus, st. 2 

Head of the army! Napoleon Bonaparte, last 

words, Life, by Sloane, IV, 219 
Off with his head ! 2 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, iii, 4 

I never knew so young a body with so old a head. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

good grey head which all men knew. 3 

Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington, st. 4 

1 Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat. There is always 
an unnatural calmness about its nap, and an unwholesome gloss, suggestive 
of a wet brush. The last effort of decayed fortune is expended in smoothing 
its dilapidated castor. The hat is the idtimum moriens of "respectability." 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 

2 Off with his head — so much for Buckingham. 

Colley Cibber, Riclxard III, Adapted, iv, 4 
3 honest face, which all men knew! 

R. H. Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln, st. 35 



17 2 Heads — Heart 

Heads. — Their heads sometimes so little, that there is no 
room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit 
for so much room. T. Fuller, Of Natural Fools 

At whose sight all the stars 
Hide their diminished heads. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 34, 35 

Health. — From labour health, from health contentment 
springs. 1 James Beattie, The Minstrel 

And he that will this health deny, 
Down among the dead men let him lie. 

Dyer, Down Among the Dead Men 

Love and health to all; . . . 
I drink to the general joy of the whole table. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

The wealth 
Of simple beauty and rustic health. 

Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 2 

Hear. — He cannot choose but hear. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 18 

Heart. — Not all the lip can speak is worth 
The silence of the heart. 

J. Q. Adams, The Lip and the Heart, st. 4 

The agonies we suffer, when the heart is left alone, 
For every sin of humanity should fully and well atone ! 
George Arnold, Introspection, v 

Who made the heart, 't is He alone 

Decidedly can try us, 
He knows each chord — its various tone, 

Each spring — its various bias : 
Then at the balance let 's be mute, 

We never can adjust it; 
What 's done we partly may compute, 

But know not what 's resisted. 

Burns, Address to the Unco Guid, st. 8 

The heart will break, yet brokenly live on. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 32 

'Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, 
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. 
The wise for cure on exercise depend; 
God never made his work for man to mend. 

Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden, lines 92-93 



Heart 173 

There 's a heart that leaps with burning glow, 

The wronged and the weak to defend ; 
And strikes as soon for a trampled foe. 

As it does for a soul-bound friend. 
It nurtures a deep and honest love; 

It glows with faith and pride ; 
And yearns with the fondness of a dove, 

To the light of its own fireside. 

Eliza Cook, The Englishman, st. 3 

I learned how much the heart can bear, 
When I saw her die in that old arm-chair. 

Eliza Cook, The Old Arm-chair, st. 4 

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to 
execute. 1 

Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, xlviii 

My heart 's wound up just like a watch, 

As far as springs will take, — 
It wants but one more evil turn, 

And then the cords will break! Hood, Epigram vii 

A woman's heart, and its whole wealth of love, 
Are all embarked upon that little boat. 

Hood, Hero and Leander, st. 24 

The full heart 's a Psalter, 
Rich in deep hymns of gratitude and love ! 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 40 

The beating of my own heart 
Was all the sound I heard. 

Lord Houghton, The Brook-Side 

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of 

emotion, 
That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a 

pebble 
Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, 
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered 

together. Longfellow, Courtship of Miles 

Standish, vi, lines 12-15 

Snows may o'er his head be flung, 
But his heart — his heart is young. 

T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon, xxxix 

*A hand to do, a head to plan, 

A heart to feel and dare. — Ebenezer Elliott, A Poet's Epitaph 

Heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. 

Junius, Letter xxxvii 



i74 Heart 

For the heart must speak when the lips are dumb. 

Kate P. Osgood, Driving Home the Cows, st. 12 

Taught by time, my heart has learned to glow 
For others' good, and melt at others' woe. 

Pope, The Odyssey, XVIII, lines 269, 270 

More, much more, the heart may feel 
Than the pen may write or the lip reveal. 

Praed, To , st. 5 

My heart is in the coffin there with Cassar. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

My heart 
Is true as steel. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii, 1 

One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth. 1 

Ibid., ii, 2 

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is 

the clapper; for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 2 

I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried 
in thy eyes. Ibid., v, 2 

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, 

And merrily hent the stile-a: 
A merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 3 [2] 

A heart has throbbed beneath that leathern breast, 
And tears adown that dusky cheek have rolled. 

Horace Smith, Address to a Mummy, st. 1 1 

Bearing a lifelong hunger in his heart. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 79 

The larger heart, the kindlier hand. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 8 

You thought to break a country heart 
For pastime, ere you went to town. 

Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, st. 1 



l I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 1 



Heart — Hearts 175 

It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over. 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Art and Heart, st. 8 

Hearth. — Little inmate, full of mirth, 
Chirping on my kitchen hearth. 

Cowper, The Cricket, st. i 

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 
Or busy housewife ply her evening care; 

No children run to lisp their sire's return. 
Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 7 

Keep a clean hearth and a clear fire for me. 1 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 192 

Hearts. — Hearts, like apples, are hard and sour, 
Till crushed by pain's resistless power; 
And yield their juices rich and bland 
To none but sorrow's heavy hand. 

J. G. Holland, Bitter Sweet: First Movement — 

First Episode 

There are inscriptions on our hearts, which, like that 
on Dighton Rock, are never to be seen except at dead- 
low-tide. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, x 

Can your lady patch hearts that are breaking 

With handfuls of coals and rice, 
Or by dealing out flannel and sheeting 

A little below cost price ? 

Kingsley, The Bad Squire? st. 15 

When hearts have once mingled 
Love first leaves the well-built nest. 

Shelley, When the Lamp Is Shattered, st. 3 

The kind hearts, the true hearts, that loved the place of 
old. R. L. Stevenson, Wandering Willie, st. 2 

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. 3 

Tennyson, The Marriage of Geraint, line 374 

'A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. 

Charles Lamb, Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist 

2 Also known as "A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter." 

3 Large of heart, though of very small estate. 

Charles Mackay, John Brown, st. i 



176 Heaven 

Heaven. — What kind of dwelling-place was heaven above ? 
And was it full of flowers? and were there schools 
And dominies there? and was it far away? 
Then, with a look that made your eyes grow dim, 
Clasping his wee white hands 'round Donald's neck, 
"Do doggies gang to heaven? ' n he would ask. 

Robert Buchanan, Willie Baird, lines 192-197 

To appreciate heaven well, 
'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell. 
W. Carleton, Gone With a Handsomer Man, st. 20 

Whispers breathing less of earth than heaven. 2 

Felicia Hemans, To the Memory of a Sister-in- 

Law, st. 5 

One of those faces that small children loathe without 
knowing why, and which give them that inward disgust 
for heaven so many of the little wretches betray, when 
they hear that these are "good men," and that heaven 
is full of such. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table, viii 

It [my soul] will not own a notion so unholy, 
As thinking that the rich by easy trips 
May go to heaven, whereas the poor and lowly 
Must work their passage, as they do in ships. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 13 

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us ; 

The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, 
The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, 

We bargain for the graves we lie in; 

J But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, 
The first to welcome, foremost to defend, 
Whose honest heart is still his master's own, 
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, 
Unhonoured falls, unnoticed all his worth, 
Denied in heaven the soul he had on earth : 
While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven, 
And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven. Byron, Inscription 

on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog, lines 7-14 

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind 

Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: . . . 

To be contents his natural desire, 

He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; 

But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 

His faithful dog shall bear him company. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 99 — 112 

2 A form so fair, that, like the air. 
'Tis less of earth than heaven. 

Edward Coate Pinkney, A Health, st. 1 



Heaven — Hell 177 

At the devil's booth are all things sold, 
Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold ; 

For a cap and bells our lives we pay, 
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 

"Tis heaven alone that is given away, 
'Tis only God may be had for the asking; 
No price is set on the lavish summer; 
June may be had by the poorest comer. 

Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to 

Part I, st. 4 

Heaven's last, best gift. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, V, lines 18, 19 

Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, 
But most chastises those whom most he likes. 

John Pomfret, To a Friend under Affliction, 

lines 89, 90 

Heaviness. — Let us not burthen our remembrance with 
A heaviness that 's gone. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, v, 1 

Heedless. — Alas! I have walked through life 
Too heedless where I trod; 
Nay, helping to trample my fellow worm, 

And fill the burial sod — 
Forgetting that even the sparrow falls 
Not unmarked of God! 

Hood, The Lady's Dream, st. 13 

Heights. — The heights by great men reached and kept 
Were not attained by sudden flight, 
But they, while their companions slept, 
Were toiling upward in the night. 

Longfellow, Ladder of Saint Augustine, st. 



Helen. — Like another Helen, fired another Troy. 

Dryden, Alexander' s Feast, line 150 



Hell. — Deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell, 
In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 20 

Me miserable! which way shall I fly 
Infinite wrath and infinite despair? 



178 Hell 

Hell — Continued 

Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; x 
And in the lowest deep a lower deep 2 
Still threatening to devour me opens wide, 
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 73-78 

All hell broke loose. 3 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, line 918 

All hell shall stir for this. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 1 

Some there are who tell 
Of one who threatens he will toss to hell 

The luckless pots he marred in making 4 — Pish! 
He's a good fellow, and 'twill all be well. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 88 

To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite, 
Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iv, lines 149, 150 

Go thou, and fill another room in hell. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, v, 5 

The cunning livery of hell. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

That deep torture may be called a hell 
When more is felt than one hath power to tell. 

Shakespeare, Rape of Lucrece, lines 1287, 1288 

1 Horror and doubt distract 
His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir 
The hell within him; for within him hell 
He brings, and round about him, nor from hell 
One step, no more than from himself, can fly 
By change of place. Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 18-23 

I myself am Heaven and Hell. 

Omar KhayyAm, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 66 

2 The Devil's Cellar, — underneath the bottomless pit. 

Proverbial Expression 
Still there lies 
An outer distance when the first is hailed, 
And still for ever yawns before our eyes 
An utmost — that is veiled. 

Jean Ingelow, Honours, II, st. 40 

See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that, 
Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that. 

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 45 
3 Hell is empty, 
And all the devils are here. Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

* What! did the hand then of the Potter shake? 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 89 



Hell-broth— Hero 179 

Hell-broth. — Eye of newt and toe of frog, 
Wool of bat and tongue of dog, 
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, 
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, 
For a charm of powerful trouble, 
Like a hell -broth boil and bubble. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, i 

Helmet. — Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen 
of France, 

Charge for the golden lilies, — upon them with the lance, 

A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in 
rest, 

A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow- 
white crest: 

And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a 
guiding star, 

Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of 
Navarre. Mac aula y, Ivry, st. 4 

Help. — God helps them that help themselves. 

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 

What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 

Herb. — She was the sweet -marjoram of the salad, or, rather, 
the herb of grace. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, iv, 5 

Hereafter. — How is it, I wonder, hereafter? Faith teaches 

us little, here, 
Of the ones we have loved and lost on earth, — do you 

think they will still be dear? 
Shall we live the lives we might have led ? will those who 

are severed now 
Remember the pledge of a lower sphere, and renew the 

broken vow? George Arnold, Introspection, v 

Hero. — Be not like dumb, driven cattle! 

Be a hero in the strife! — Longfellow, Psalm of Life, st. 5 

Nature, they say, doth dote, 

And cannot make a man 

Save on some worn-out plan, 

Repeating us by rote: 
For him [Lincoln] her Old-World moulds aside she threw, 
And, choosing sweet clay from the breast 

Of the unexhausted West, 
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, 
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 6 



180 Hero— Hoe 

There is no trade or employment but the young man 
following it may become a hero. 

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 48 

Heroes. It 's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 
'ow's yer soul? " 
But it 's "Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin 
to roll. Kipling, Tommy 

Herod. — It out-herods Herod. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Herse. — Underneath this sable herse 
Lies the subject of all verse, 
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; 
Death! ere thou hast slain another, 
Learned and fair, and good as she, 

W. Browne, 1 Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke 

Hills. The hills, 

Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, lines 37, 38 

Over the hills and far away. 

Gay, The Beggar's Opera, i, 1 

Himself. — Richard's himself again! 

Colley Cibber, Richard III, Adapted, v, 5 

Hindrance. — Something between a hindrance and a help. 

Wordsworth, Michael, line 189 

Hisses. — And then he heard the hisses change to cheers. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 13 

History. — History ... is, indeed, little more than the reg- 
ister of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, iii 

Hit. — A hit, a very palpable hit. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 2 

Hobby-horse. — A man's hobby-horse is as tender a part as 
he has about him. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, II, xii 

Hoe. — Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans 
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, 
The emptiness of ages in his face, 
And on his back the burden of the world. 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 1 

1 This poem has been sometimes ascribed to others. Whalley assigns it to 
Ben Jonson, but a concourse of opinion seems to attribute its authorship to 
Browne. 



Hog— Holy Supper 181 

Hog. — The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. 

William Mason, Heroic Epistle 

Holiday. — There were his young barbarians all at play, 
There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, 
Butchered to make a Roman holiday. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 141 

Hollands. — He poured the fiery Hollands in, — the man that 

never feared, — 
He took a long and solemn draught, and wiped his yellow 

beard ; 
And one by one the musketeers — the men that fought 

and prayed — 
All drank as 'twere their mother's milk, and not a man 

afraid. 

That night, affrighted from his nest, the screaming eagle 

flew, 
He heard the Pequot's ringing whoop, the soldier's wild 

halloo ; 
And there the sachem learned the rule he taught to kith 

and kin, 
"Run from the white man when you find he smells of 

Hollands gin!" 

Holmes, On Lending a Punch-Bowl, st. 7, 8 

Holly. — To-night ungathered let us leave 

This laurel, let this holly stand: 1 
We live within the stranger's land, 
And strangely falls our Christmas-eve. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cv, st. 1 

Holy. — Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 88 

Holy Supper. — The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, 
In whatso we share with another's need; 
Not what we give, but what we share, 
For the gift without the giver is bare; 
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, 
Himself, his hungering neighbour, and Me. 2 

Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, ii, st. 8 



1 An earlier reading is : 

This holly by the cottage eave 
To-night, ungathered shall it stand. 

2 He serveth his Maker who aideth the poor. Eliza Cook, Winter, st. 8 



1 82 Home — Homely 

Home. — Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 
His first, best country ever is at home. 1 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, st. 7 

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; 
A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, 
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with else- 
where. 
Home, home, sweet, sweet home! 
There's no place like home! there's no place like home! 2 
John Howard Payne, Home, Sweet Home, st. 1 

Home was home then, my dear, full of kindly faces. 

R. L. Stevenson, Wandering Willie, st. 2 

Homeless. Homeless near a thousand homes I stood, 3 

And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. 

Wordsworth, Guilt and Sorrow, st. 41 

Homely. — Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 1 

1 Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? 
Art thou a man? — a patriot? — look around; 

Oh, thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, 
That land thy country, and that spot thy home. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, st. 1 

2 Cling to thy home! if there the meanest shed 
Yield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head, 
And some poor plot, with vegetables stored, 
Be all that Heaven allots thee for thy board, — 
Unsavoury bread, and herbs that scattered grow 
Wild on the river brink or mountain brow, 

Yet e'en this cheerless mansion shall provide 
More heart's repose than all the world beside. 

Robert Bland, Home, From the Greek of Leonidas 

If solid happiness we prize, 
Within our breast this jewel lies; 

And they are fools who roam : 
The world has nothing to bestow; 
From our own selves our joys must flow, 

And that dear hut — our home. N. Cotton, The Fireside, st. 3 

3 Alas! for the rarity 
Of Christian charity 
Under the sun! 
Oh! it was pitiful! 
Near a whole city full, 
Home she had none! Hood, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 9 

The poor white man sat down beneath our tree, 
Weary and faint, and far from home was he: 
For him no mother fills with milk the bowl, 
No wife prepares the bread to cheer his soul. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, st. 4 

Home, — what home? had he a home? 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 664 



Homer — Honesty 183 

Homer. — Seven cities warred for Homer being dead ; 
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 1 

T. Heywood, The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells 

Honest. — An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, 
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. 

Cowper, Epistle to Joseph Hill, lines 62, 63 

A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod ; 

An honest man's the noblest work of God. 2 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 247, 248 

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man 
picked out of ten thousand. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

I am myself indifferent honest. 3 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 
A free and open nature, 
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 
To be direct and honest is not safe. Ibid., iii, 3 

^Honesty. — Honesty is the best policy. 

Byrom, The Nimmers, line 18; Franklin, Poor 

Richard's Almanac 
No legacy is so rich as honesty. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, iii, 5 

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; 
as your pearl in your foul oyster. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 4 
Honesty's a fool 
And loses that it works for.* Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 

1 Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, 

Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Anonymous 

2 Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 
"An honest man's the noblest work of God." 

Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 19 
3 1 am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester 
than I. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 4 

* But conscience was tough: it was not enough;* 

And their honesty never swerved; 
And they bade him go, with Mister Joe, 
To the Devil, as he deserved. 



But they wavered not long, for conscience was strong, 
And they thought they might get more; 

And they refused the gold, but not 
So rudely as before. 



And they could not stand the sound in his hand, 

For he made the guineas chink. 
Southey, The Surgeon's Warning, st. 25, 30, 34 



*A proffered bribe of one guinea, increased in the following stanzas to 
two and three guineas. 



184 Honey — Honour 

Honey. When was ever honey made 

With one bee in a hive? Hood, The Last Man 

Where'er ye shed the honey, the buzzing flies will crowd; 
Where'er ye fling the carrion, the raven's croak is loud; 1 
Where'er down Tiber garbage floats, the speedy pike ye 

see; 
And wheresoe'er such lord is found, such client still will 

be. Macaulay, Virginia, st. 2 

Honour. — And had he not high honour? 
The hillside for a pall ; 
To lie in state while angels wait 

With stars for tapers tall; 
And the dark rock-pines, like tossing plumes, 

Over his bier to wave, 
And God's own hand, in that lonely land, 
To lay him in his grave! 

Cecil Frances Alexander, Burial of Moses , st. 8 

The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip 

To haud the wretch in order; 
But where ye feel your honour grip, 

Let that aye be your border. 

Burns, Epistle to a Young Friend, st. 8 

If he that in the field is slain, 
Be in the bed of honour lain, 
He that is beaten may be said 
To lie in honour's truckle-bed. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, iii, lines 1047-1050 

Seek no friend save Honour, 
Dread no foe but Debt. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, An Honest Valentine, st. 5 

I could not love thee, dear, so much, 

Loved I not honour more. Richard Lovelace, 

To Lucasta, On Going to the Warres, st. 3 

Honour and shame from no condition rise; 
Act well your part, there all the honour lies. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 193, 194 

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick 
me off when I come on? — how then? Can honour set 
to a leg? — no: or an arm? — no: or take away the 
grief of a wound? — no. Honour hath no skill in sur- 
gery, then? — no. What is honour? — a word. What 

1 Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. 

Matt, xxiv, 28 



Honour — Hope 185 

is in that word honour? — what is that honour? — air. 
A trim reckoning! Who hath it? — he that died o' Wed- 
nesday. Doth he feel it? — no. Doth he hear it? — 
no. 'T is insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will 
it not live with the living? — no. Why? — detraction 
will not suffer it. Therefore I '11 none of it. Honour is 
a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, i 

If we are marked to die, we are enough 
To do our country loss ; and if to live, 
The fewer men, the greater share of honour. 

But if it be a sin to covet honour 
I am the most offending soul alive. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 3 

The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that 
honour feels. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 105 

We crave 
The austere virtues strong to save, 
The honour proof to place or gold, 
The manhood never bought nor sold! 

Whittier, Centennial Hymn, st. 5 

Honours. — He gave his honours to the world again, 
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

V Hope. — All hope abandon, ye who enter here. 

Dante, Inferno, Canto iii, line 9 

While there is life, there 's hope. 1 

Gay, The Sick Man and the Angel, line 49 

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream. 

Keats, Endymion, i, line 857 

^ None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, 
But love can hope 2 where reason would despair. 

Lord Lyttelton, Epigram 

'The wretch condemned with life to part, 

Still, still on hope relies; 
And every pang that rends the heart, 
Bids expectation rise. 

Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, 

Adorns and cheers the way; 
And still, as darker grows the night, 

Emits a brighter ray. Goldsmith, The Captivity, ii 

2 Hope! thou nurse of young desire. 

I. Bickerstaff Love in a Village, st. 1 



1 86 Hope — Horse 

Twining subtle fears with hope. 

A. Marvell, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Re- 
turn from Ireland, st. 13 

Hope on, hope ever! though to-day be dark, 

The sweet sunburst may smile on thee to-morrow. 

Gerald Massey, Hope On, Hope Ever 

So farewell hope, 1 and, with hope, farewell fear, 
Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; 
Evil, be thou my good. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 108-110 

Hope springs eternal in the human breast : 
Man never is, but always to be blessed : 
The soul, uneasy and confined from home, 
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 95-98 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 2 

] Hope is a lover's staff. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, 1 

Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies 
Deeply buried from human eyes; 

And, in the hereafter, angels may 
Roll the stone from its grave away! 

Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 54, 55 

Hornet. — 'Tis dangerous to disturb a hornet's nest. 

Dryden, The Cock and the Fox, line 566 

Horror. — On horror's head horrors accumulate. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

Horse. At my door the Pale Horse stands 

To carry me to unknown lands. 

John Hay, The Stirrup Cup, st. 1 

I would not have the horse I drive 
So fast that folks must stop and stare; 
An easy gait — two, forty-five — 

Suits me; I do not care; 
Perhaps, for just a single spurt, 
Some seconds less would do no hurt. 

Holmes, Contentment, st. 7 

l Cf. Freedom. 



Horse — House 187 

The ways of a man with a maid be strange, yet simple 

and tame 
To the ways of a man with a horse, when selling or racing 

the same. 1 Kipling, Certain Maxims of Hafiz, st. 13 

They sell the pasture now to buy the horse. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, Prologue 

Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 3 

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! Ibid., v, 4 

He doth nothing but talk of his horse. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

Pity for a horse o'er-driven, 
And love in which my hound has part. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxiii, st. 1 

Horsemanship. — As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, 
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus 
And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iv, 1 

Horses. — Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They 're 
wittles and drink to me — lodging, wife, and children — 
reading, writing, and 'rithmetic — snuff, tobacker, and 
sleep. Dickens, David Copperfield, I, xix 

Hospitable. — On hospitable thoughts intent. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, V, line 332 

Hot. Now, 

*S While it is hot, I '11 put it to the issue 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 1 

Hour. — Some wee short hour ayont the twal. 

Burns, Death and Doctor Hornbook, st. 31 

House. — The house with the narrow gate. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, iv, 5 

Like a fair house built on another man's ground. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2 

1 When one that hath a horse on sale 

Shall bring his merit to the proof, 
Without a lie for every nail 

That holds the iron on the hoof. — Holmes, Latter-Day Warnings, st. 5 

A feller may be straighter 'n a string in ev'ythin' else, an' never tell the 
truth — that is, the hull truth — about a hoss. 

E. N. Westcott, David Harum, xviii 



1 88 Housewife— Hurricane 

Housewife. — I '11 play the housewife for this once. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 2 

Hub. — Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. 
You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had 
the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi 

Hum. — The busy hum of men. — Milton, L' Allegro, line 118 

Human. — Then gently scan your brother man, 
Still gentler sister woman; 
Though they may gang a kennin wrang, 
To step aside is human. 

Burns, Address to the Unco Guid, st. 7 

Human nature in its shirt -sleeves. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table, i 

Humanity. — The traitor to humanity is the traitor most 
accursed. — Lowell, On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves 

near Washington, st. 5 

Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; 
Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; 
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, 
Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, 
Cries protest to the Judges of the World, 
A protest that is also prophecy. 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 4 

The still, sad music of humanity. 

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, line 93 

Humidity. — O blessed breathing sun, draw from the earth 
Rotten humidity! — Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iv, 2 

Humility. — That very thing so many Christians want — 
Humility. Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 21 

Hundred. — While one with moderate haste might tell a 
hundred. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

Hurrahs. — One stormy gust of long-suspended Ahs! 
One whirlwind chaos of insane hurrahs ! 

Holmes, A Modest Request: The Speech, lines 49, 50 

Hurricane. — One night came on a hurricane, 
The sea was mountains rolling. 
William Pitt (of Malta), The Sailor's Consolation, st. 1 



Hurt — Husband 189 

Hurt. — Romeo. Courage, man! the hurt cannot be much. 

Mercutio. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide 
as a church door; but't is enough, 'twill serve. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, i 

I '11 not hurt thee, 1 . . . go, poor devil, get thee gone, 
why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide 
enough to hold both thee and me. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, II, xii 

Husband. — And truant husband should return, and say, 
"My dear, I was the first who came away." 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 141 

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, 
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, line 261 

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 1 

Here 's my husband, 
And so much duty as my mother showed 
To you, preferring you before her father, 
So much I challenge that I may profess 
Due to the Moor my lord. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, 
And for thy maintenance commits his body 
To painful labour both by sea and land, 
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, 
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe ; 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience; 
Too little payment for so great a debt. 2 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

As the husband is, the wife is; thou are mated with a 

clown, 
And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag 

thee down. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 47, 48 

1 A fly which "Uncle Toby " had caught after it had tormented him cruelly 
all dinner-time. 

2 Galatea. What is a man? 

Pygmalion. A being strongly framed 

To wait on woman, and protect her from 
All ills that strength and courage can avert; 
To work and toil for her, that she may rest; 
To weep and mourn for her, that she may laugh; 
To fight and die for her, that she may live! 
Galatea. I'm glad I am a woman. 

W. S. Gilbert, Pygmalion and Galatea, i, i 



190 Husbands — Ignorance 

Husbands. — Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to 
herrings. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, i 

Hypocrisy. — Oh for a forty-parson power to chaunt 
Thy praise, hypocrisy ! 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto x, st. x, 34 

Ice. — Ice, mast-high, came floating by. 

S. T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 53 

The ice was here, the ice was there, 

The ice was all around: 1 

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, 

Like noises in a swound! Ibid., lines 59-62 

Icicles. — When icicles hang by the wall, 

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
And Tom bears logs into the hall, 

And milk comes frozen home in pail. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, v, 2 

Ideal. — The human ideal will be the desire to transform life 
into something better and grander than itself. 

Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, ii 

Ideality. — Infinite Ideality! 
Immeasurable Reality! 
Infinite Personality! — Tennyson, The Human Cry, st. 1 

Ides. — Beware the ides of March. 2 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, i, 2 

Idle. — Satan finds some mischief still 

For idle hands to do. Watts, Divine Songs, Song 20 

Idler. — An idler is a watch that wants both hands; 
As useless if it goes as if it stands. 

Cowper, Retirement, lines 681, 682 

Ignorance. Where ignorance is bliss, 

'Tis folly to be wise. 3 Thomas Gray, Ode on a 

Distant Prospect of Eton College, st. 10 

''Twas ice around, behind, before — 
My God! there is no sea. 

G. H. Boker, Ballad of Sir John Franklin, st. 15 

2 Ccesar. The ides of March are come. 

Soothsayer. Ay, Caesar, but not gone. — Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 1 

Remember March, the ides of March remember' Ibid., iv, 3 

3 From ignorance our comfort flows ; 

The only wretched are the wise. Prior, to Montague 



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Ill — Improve 191 

111. — The good are better made by ill, 
As odours crushed are sweeter still. 

S. Rogers, Jacqueline, st, 3 
111 wind never said well. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 7 

Ills. — Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, 
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! 

Burns, Tarn O' Shanter, st. 6 

Imagination. — We must temper the imagination . . . with 
judgment. — Keats, Letter to G. andG. Keats, April 28, 18 19 

Who can hold a fire in his hand 
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite 
By bare imagination of a feast? 
Or wallow naked in December snow 
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

Immortal. — The soul, secured in her existence, smiles 
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years. 
But thou shalt nourish in immortal youth, 
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, 
The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. 

Addison, Cato, v, 1 
How can he be dead 
Who lives immortal in the hearts of men? 

Longfellow, Michael Angelo, II, iv 

The man immortal, rationally brave, 

Dares rush on death — because he cannot die. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VII, lines 197, 198 

Immortality. — The old, old fashion! The fashion that came 
in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until 
our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is 
rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death! 
Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, 
of Immortality! Dickens, Dombey and Son, xvi 

Impeachment. — I own the soft impeachment. 

R. B. Sheridan, The Rivals, v, 3 

Improve. — Men might be better if we better deemed 
Of them. 1 The worst way to improve the world 
Is to condemn it. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — A Mountain — Sunrise 

1 The surest plan to make a man 

Is, think him so. — Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, Jonathan to John, st. 9 



i9 2 Income — Inn 

Income. — Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendi- 
ture nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual 
income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty 
pounds ought and six, result misery. 

Dickens, David Copperfield, I, xii 

Indebted. — And stand indebted, over and above, 
In love and service to you evermore. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, i 

Independence. — Independence now and independence for 
ever! — Daniel Webster, Eulogy on Adams and Jef- 
ferson, Boston, August 2, 1826 

Index learning. Index-learning turns no student pale, 
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 

Pope, The Dunciad, I, lines 279, 280 

Infant. — An infant crying in the night ; 
An infant crying for the light; 
And with no language but a cry. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, liv, st. 5 

Infinity. — How can finite grasp infinity? 

Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, line 105 

Ingratitude. — Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, 
Quite vanquished him: then burst his mighty heart. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, 

More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child 

Than the sea -monster! Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 4 

Inhumanity. — Man's inhumanity to man 
Makes countless thousands mourn! 

Burns, Man was Made to Mourn, st. 7 

Injury. His injury 

The gaoler to his pity. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v, 1 

Ink. — But words are things, and a small drop of ink, 
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces 
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto iii, st. 88 

Inn. — There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, 
by which so much happiness is produced as by a good 
tavern or inn. 1 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, March 21, 1776 

1 Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, 

Where'er his stages may have been, 
May sigh to think he still has found 
The warmest welcome at an inn. 

W. Shenstone, Written on a Window of an Inn 



Inn — Ire 193 

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have 
my pocket picked? 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 3 

Innocents. — Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. 1 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

Insipid. — Insipid as the queen upon a card. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, line 28 

Instruction. — Pleasure with instruction should be joined; 
So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. 

Dryden, The Cock and the Fox, lines 820, 821 

Instrument. — He made an instrument to know 
If the moon shine at full or no. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, iii, lines 261, 262 

Intentions. — Hell is paved with good intentions. 2 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, April 14, 1775 

Interest. — His simple rule of interest being all comprised in 
the one golden sentence, "two pence for every half- 
penny" ... a familiar precept . . . strongly recom- 
mended to the notice of . . . money-brokers and bill 
discounters. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1 

I don't believe in princerple, 
But oh, I du in interest. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, vi, st. 9 

He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, 
Even there where merchants most do congregate, 
On me, my bargains and my well -won thrift, 
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe, 
If I forgive him! 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Intoxication. — Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; 
The best of life is but intoxication : 
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk 
The hopes of all men, and of every nation. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 179 

Ire. — Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 141 

1 Those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, 
think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 

Luke xiii, 4 

'Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum 



194 Ireland — Isle 

Ireland. — Heartsome Ireland, winsome Ireland, 

Tender, comely, valiant Ireland, 
Songful, soulful, sorrowful Ireland. 
— Lanier, Ireland, st. 1-3 

Irishman. — A wild, tremendous Irishman, 

A tearing, swearing, thumping, bumping, ranting, roar- 
ing Irishman. 

The whiskey-devouring Irishman, 
The great he-rogue with his wonderful brogue — the 
fighting, rioting Irishman. 

The rattling, battling Irishman, 
The stamping, ramping, swaggering, staggering, leather- 
ing swash of an Irishman. 
William Maginn, The Irishman and the Lady, st. 1,3 

Iron. This iron age. Shakespeare, King John, iv, 1 



Iscariot. The Bridegroom stood at the open door, 

And beckoned, smiling sweet ; 
'Twas the soul of Judas Iscariot 
Stole in, and fell at his feet. 

"The Holy Supper is spread within, 

And the many candles shine, 
And I have waited long for thee 

Before I poured the wine!" 

The supper wine is poured at last, 

The lights burn bright and fair, 
Iscariot washes the Bridegroom's feet, 

And dries them with his hair. 

Robert Buchanan, The Ballad of Judas Iscariot, 

st. 47-49 

Island. — O, it 's a snug little island! 

A right little, tight little island! 
Search the globe round, none can be found 
So happy as this little island. 

T. Dibdin, The Tight Little Island 

Isle. — Our little mother isle, God bless her! 

Holmes, A Good Time Coming, st. 6 



Ivy— Jest 195 



Ivy. — Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, 
That creepeth o'er ruins old! 

Creeping where no life is seen, 
A rare old plant is the ivy green. 

For the stateliest building man can raise 
Is the ivy's food at last. 

Dickens, Pickwick Papers, vi, The Ivy Green 

Jade. — We that have free souls, it touches us not : let the 
galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Jaundiced. — All seems infected that th' infected spy, 
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 558, 559 

Jaw. — Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? 
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? 
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 1 

Jays. — We '11 teach him to know turtles from jays. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 3 

Jealousy. — Green-eyed jealousy. 1 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

Jest. — Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, 
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. 2 

Samuel Johnson, London, (adapted from the 

Third Satire of Juvenal) 

1 Beware, my lord, of jealousy! 
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock [make] 
The meat it feeds on. Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

Jealous souls will not be answered so ; 
They are not ever jealous for the cause, 
But jealous for they are [they 're] jealous : 't is a monster 
Begot upon itself, born on itself. Ibid., 4 

I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove; 

And, on the proof,* there is no more but this, — 

Away at once with love or jealousy! Ibid., 3 

2 Nothing in poverty so ill is borne, 
As its exposing men to grinning scorn. 

John Oldham, Adaptation from the Third Satire of Juvenal 



* Trifles light as air 
Are to the jealous confirmation strong 
As proofs of holy writ. Shakespeare, Othello, 



196 Jest— Jesus 

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee 
Jest and youthful jollity, 
Quips and cranks and wanton wiles. 
Nods and becks and wreathed smiles. 

Milton, U Allegro, lines 25-28 

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, 
and a good jest for ever. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 2 

Maria. Not a word with him but a jest. 1 
Boyet. And every jest but a word. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, ii 

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 

Of him that makes it. Ibid., v, 2 

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, 
But in the less foul profanation. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

Jesus. — If Jesus Christ is a man, — 
And only a man, — I say 
That of all mankind I cleave to him, 
And to him will I cleave alway. 

If Jesus Christ is a God, — 

And the only God, — I swear 
I will follow Him through heaven and hell, 

The earth, the sea, and the air! 

R. W. Gilder, The Song of a Heathen 

1 A trusty villain, sir, that very oft, 
When I am dull with care and melancholy, 
Lightens my humour with his merry jests. 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, i, 2 
A merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth,* 
I never spent an hour's talk withal: 
His eye begets occasion for his wit; 
For every object that the one doth catch, 
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. 
Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) 
Delivers in such apt and gracious words 
That aged ears play truant at his tales 
And younger hearings are quite ravished; 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, ii 
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 2 



*I do enjoy this bounteous beauteous earth; 
And dote upon a jest 
Within the limits of becoming mirth. 

Hood, Ode to Roe Wilson, Esquire, st. 4 



Jew— Jolly 197 

Jew. — I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

I '11 seal to such a bond 
And say there is much kindness in the Jew. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, 
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the 
same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the 
same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and 
cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian 
is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, 
do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and 
if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like 
you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew 
wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If 
a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be 
by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy 
you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I 
will better the instruction. Ibid., iii, 1 

Jewel. Man, she is mine own, 

And I as rich in having such a jewel, 
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 4 

Jewels. — Win her with gifts, if she respect not words : 
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 
More quick than words, do move a woman's mind. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, 1 

Jews. — On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, 
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, ii, lines 7, 8 

Johnny. — A kind of a little Johnny, you know. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, vii 

Joke. — Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! 
Who relished a joke, and rejoiced in a pun; 
Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; 
A stranger to flattery, a stranger to fear. 

Goldsmith, Sequel to Retaliation 

Jolly. — Any man may be in good spirits and good temper 
when he 's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. 
If I was very ragged and very jolly, then I should begin 
to feel I had gained a point. 

Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, I, v 



198 Jolly— Judgment 

There might be some credit in being jolly with a wife, 
'specially if the children had the measles and that, and 
was very fractious indeed. 

Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, I, v 

There 'd be some credit in being jolly, with an inflam- 
mation of the lungs. Ibid. 

Journeys. — Journeys end in lovers meeting. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 3 

Joy. — He chortled in his joy. — C. L. Dodgson ("Lewis 

Carroll"), Through the Looking-Glass, i 

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, i, 2 

Joy is an exchange; 
Joy flies monopolists; it calls for two. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 509, 510. 

Joys. — Joys too exquisite to last. 

James Montgomery, The Little Cloud, st. 10 

Judas. — If that ain't Judas on the largest scale! 

Holmes, A Modest Request : The Scene, line 50 

Judge. — Judge not ; the workings of his brain 
And of his heart thou canst not see ; 
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain, 

In God's pure light may only be 
A scar, brought from some well-won field, 
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield. 

Adelaide A. Procter, Judge Not, st. 1 

Gently to hear, kindly to judge. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, Prologue 

Judged. — Thank God! man is not to be judged by man: 
Or, man by man, the world would damn itself. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — A Gathering of 

Kings and Peoples 

Judges. — Judges ought to remember that their office is . . . 
to interpret law, and not to make law. 

Bacon, Essay LVI: Of Judicature 

Judging. — Judging each step, as though the way were plain. 
Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 3 

Judgment. — His years but young, but his experience old ; 
His head unmellowed, but his judgment ripe. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 4 



Judgments— Justice 199 

Judgments. — Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — 
that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. 
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth 
piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of 
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of 
blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another 
drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years 
ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord 
are true and righteous altogether." 

Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 

Judicious. — Make the judicious grieve. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, hi, 2 

June. What is so rare as a day in June? 

Then, if ever, come perfect days. 

Lowell, Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to 

Part I, st. s 

Jury. — A jury too frequently has at least one member more 
ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor. 

Lincoln, Letter to Erastus Corning, June 12, 1863 

Just. — Only the actions of the just 

Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. 1 

J. Shirley, Dirge : Death the Leveller, st. 3 

Justice. — Justice conquers evermore, 

And he who battles on her side, 

God, though he were ten times slain, 

Crowns him victor glorified, 

Victor over death and pain. Emerson, Voluntary IV 

Yet I shall temper so 
Justice with mercy. — Milton, Paradise Lost, X, lines 77,78 

And then the justice, 
In fair round belly with good capon lined, 
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Liberty plucks justice by the nose. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, i, 3 [4] 

Shylock. Is that the law? 

Portia. Thyself shalt see the act : 

For, as thou urgest justice, be assured 
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest. 

He hath refused it in the open court : 

He shall have merely justice and his bond. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

iThe memory of the just is blessed. — Proverbs x, 7 



200 Justify — Kentucky 

Justify. — Justify the ways of God to men. 1 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, line 26 

Kangaroos. — Von only happy moment I have had 
Since here I corns to be a farmer's cad, 
And then I cotched a vild beast in a snaoze, 
And picked her pouch of three young kangarooi. 

Hood, The Forlorn Shepherd's 2 Complaint, st. 6 

Katydid. — Thou testy little dogmatist, 
Thou pretty katydid ! 3 

Holmes, To an Insect, st. 1 

Keel. — Without a breeze, without a tide, 
She steadies with upright keel! 

S. T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 169, 170 

See! she stirs! 
She starts, — she moves, — she seems to feel 
The thrill of life along her keel. 

Longfellow, Building of the Ship, st. 21 

I hear the noise about thy keel ; 

I hear the bell struck in the night ; 

I see the cabin-window bright; 
I see the sailor at the wheel. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, x, st. 1 

Kentucky. — We '11 sing one song for the old Kentucky home. 
S. C. Foster, My Old Kentucky Home 

1 Just are the ways of God, 
And justifiable to men, 
Unless there be who think not God at all: 
If any be, they walk obscure; 
For of such doctrine never was there school, 
But the heart of the fool, 
And no man therein doctor but himself. 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 293-299 
Vindicate the ways of God to man. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, line 16 
2 "The Forlorn Shepherd," — a London pickpocket transported to Aus- 
tralia, and put to sheep-herding. 

3 Oh, tell me where did Katy live, 

And what did Katy do? 
And was she very fair and young, 

And yet so wicked, too? 
Did Katy love a naughty man. 

Or kiss more cheeks than one? 
I warrant Katy did no more 

Than many a Kate has done.* Holmes, To an Insect, st. 3 



*Tell me, what did Caty do? 
Did she-mean to trouble you? 
Why was Caty not forbid 
To trouble little Caty-did? Philip Freneau, To a Caty-Did, st. 5 



Kick— King 



Kick. — A kick, that scarce would move a horse, 
May kill a sound, divine. 

Cowper, The Yearly Distress, st. 16 

Kickshaws. — Any pretty little tiny kickshaws. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, i 

Kidney. — A man of my kidney. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 5 

Kill. — Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; 
Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, 
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, ii, 1 

Kind. — A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. 

David Garrick, Prologue on Quitting the Stage, 

June, 1776 
Be to her virtues very kind; 
Be to her faults a little blind. 1 

Matthew Prior, English Padlock, lines 78, 79 

If she be not so to me 

What care I how kind she be? 

George Wither, The Author's Resolution, st. 2 

Kindness. — A way to kill a wife with kindness. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 1 

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, 

Shall win my love. Ibid., iv, 2 

That best portion of a good man's life, 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. 

Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 34-36 

Kindred. — All that inhabit this great earth, 
Whatever be their rank or worth 
Are kindred and allied by birth, 
And made of the same clay. 

Longfellow, Keramos, st. 21 

King. — Wha last beside his chair shall fa', 
He is the king amang us three! 

Burns, Oh, Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut, st. 4 

God save our gracious king, 
Long five our noble king, 

God save our king. H. Carey, God Save the King 

1 Be a little, nay, intensely blind. Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 54 



King— Kiss 



The king himself has followed her — 
When she has walked before. 

Goldsmith, Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 5 

Here lies our sovereign lord the king, 

Whose word no man relies on; 
He never says a foolish thing, 
Nor ever does a wise one. 
Earl of Rochester, Written on the Bedchamber 

Door of Charles II 
A king of shreds and patches. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, 

That treason can but peep to what it would. — Ibid., iv, 5 

Was never subject longed to be a king 
As I do long and wish to be a subject. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 9 

Ay, every inch a king. Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 6 

The king's name is a tower of strength. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 3 

The king of France, with forty thousand men, 
Went up a hill, and so came down agen. 

Richard Tarlton, The Pigges Corantoe 

He is king who has the power. 

Pope Zacharias (a. d. 752), cited by W. M. 

Sloane, Napoleon Bonaparte, II, 208 

Kings. — Kings then at last have but the lot of all: 
By their own conduct they must stand or fall. 

Cowper, Table Talk, lines 106, 107 

Kings must have slaves; 
Kings climb to eminence 

Over men's graves. — Austin Dobson, Before Sedan, st. 2 

Others thought kings a useless heavy load, 
Who cost too much, and did too little good. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, 

lines 505, 506 

Kings cannot reign unless their subjects give. 

Dryden, Epistle to Sir Godfrey Kneller, line 142 

Kiss. Maids must kiss no men 

Till they do for good and all. 

Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Corydon, st. 3 



Kiss 203 



Ae fond kiss, and then we sever. 1 

Burns, Ae Fond Kiss, st. 1 

Gin a body meet a body 

Coming through the rye, 
Gin a body kiss a body — 

Need a body cry? 

Burns, Coming Through the Rye, st. 2 

Love's first snowdrop, virgin kiss! 2 

Burns, To a Kiss, st. 1 

The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left, 

Shall never part from mine, 
Till happier hours restore the gift 

Untainted back to thine. 3 Byron, On Parting, st. 1 

Since there's no helpe, — ■ come, let us kisse and parte. 
Michael Drayton, Come, Let Us Kisse 

and Parte, st. 1 

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, 
but its echo lasts a deal longer. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, xi 

Alas, for the love that 's linked with gold! 
Better — better a thousand times told — 

Most honest, happy, and laudable, 
The downright loving of pretty Cis, 
Who wipes her lips, though there 's nothing amiss, 
And takes a kiss, and gives a kiss, 

In which her heart is audible! 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Courtship 

There grows a flower on every bough, 
Its petals kiss — I '11 show you how : 
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho! 
Young maids must marry. 

Kingsley, Sing Heigh-Ho, st. 2 

Alas, how easily things go wrong! 

A sigh too much, or a kiss too long, 

And there follows a mist and a weeping rain, 

And life is never the same again. 

George Macdonald, Sir Aglovaile 

J One kind kiss before we part. Robert Dodsley, The Parting Kiss 

2 How delicious is the winning 
Of a kiss at love's beginning, 
When two mutual hearts are sighing 
For the knot there 's no untying! 

T. Campbell, Song: How Delicious is the Winning, st. i 

3 The kiss that she left on my lip, 

Like a dewdrop shall lingering lie. 

T. Moore, Paraphrase of Epigram from the Anthologia, in 

note Odes of Anacreon, xliii 



204 Kiss — Kisses 

Sweetheart, 
I were unmannerly to take you out 
And not to kiss you. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 4 

Seal the bargain with a holy kiss. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 2 

The sunlight clasps the earth, 
And the moonbeams kiss the sea — 
What are all these kissings worth, 1 
If thou kiss not me? Shelley, Love's Philosophy, st. 2 

O Love, O fire! once he drew 

With one long kiss my whole soul through 

My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. 2 

Tennyson, Fatima, st. 3 

Kissed. — Jenny 3 kissed me when we met, 
Jumping from the chair she sat in. 
Time, you thief! who love to get 

Sweets into your list, put that in. 
Say I 'm weary, say I 'm sad ; 

Say that health and wealth have missed me; 
Say I 'm growing old, but add — 
Jenny kissed me! 

Leigh Hunt, Jenny Kissed Me 

Kisses. A something on her cheek that smacked 

(Tho* quite in silence) of ambrosial sweetness. 
That made her think all other kisses lacked 

Till then, but what she knew not, of completeness: 
Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, 
Insipid things — like sandwiches of veal. 

Hood, Bianco 1 s Dream, st. 33 

Then her lip, so rich in blisses, 
Sweet petitioner for kisses. 

T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon, xvi 

1 Another reading is : What is all this sweet work worth? 

2 Their lips drew near, and clung into a kiss ; 

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love, 

And beauty, all concentrating, like rays 
Into one focus kindled from above; 

Such kisses as belong to early days, 
Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move, 

And the blood's lava, and the pulse ablaze, 
Each kiss a heart-quake, — for a kiss's strength, 
I think it must be reckoned by its length. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 185, 186 
As if he plucked up kisses by the roots. — Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

3 Jane Carlyle. 



Kisses — Knell 205 

Dear as remembered kisses after death, 
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned 
On lips that are for others. 

Tennyson, The Princess, iv, lines 36-38 

Come, Chloe, and give me sweet kisses, 

For sweeter sure never girl gave; 
But why, in the midst of my blisses, 

Do you ask me how many I 'd have? 

Go number the stars in the heaven, 

Count how many sands on the shore, 
When so many kisses you 've given, 
I still shall be craving for more. 

Sir Charles H. Williams, Come, Chloe 
(cited by Moore, The Numbering of the Clergy) 

The wretch who can mmiber his kisses, 

With few will be ever content. Ibid. 

Kissing. A hand that kings 

Have lipped, and trembled kissing. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy 
bread. Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 4 

Kitten. — I had rather be a kitten and cry mew 

Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Knave. — An honest man may take a knave's advice, 
But idiots only may be cozened twice : 
Once warned is well bewared. 

Dryden, The Cock and the Fox, lines 797-799 

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent 
than the dove ; that is, more knave than fool. 

C. Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, ii, 3 

A knave 's a knave, to me, in ev'ry state. 



v ry s 
to Dr. 



Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 361 

Knaves. — Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Whip me such honest knaves. — Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

Knell. The bell invites me. 

Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell 
That summons thee to heaven or to hell. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 1 
The mournful surges 
That ring the dead seaman's knell. 

Shelley, When the Lamp Is Shattered, st. 2 



206 Knew — Knowledge 

Knew. — The village all declared how much he knew; 
'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 14 

Knife. — The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet xcv 

Knocker. — Shut, shut the door, good John, fatigu'd I said, 
Tie up the knocker, say I 'm sick, I 'm dead. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 1, 2 

Knocks. — What 's he that knocks as he would beat down the 
gate? Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 1 

Knot. — A knot that gold and silver can buy- 
Gold and silver may yet untie, 
Unless it is tightly fastened. 

E. C. Stedman, The Diamond Wedding, st. 13 

Knots.— His owne two hands the holy knotts did knitt, 
That none but death for ever can divide. 

Spenser, Faerie Queene, I, Canto xii, st. 37 

Know. — Know, not for knowing's sake, 
But to become a star to men for ever; 
Know, for the gain it gets, the praise it brings, 
The wonder it inspires, the love it breeds : 
Look one step onward, and secure that step! 

R. Browning, Paracelsus, i 

Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son! 
"All that we know is, nothing can be known." 
Why should we shrink from what we cannot shun? 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 7 

I know what I know. 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, iii, 1 ; Measure 

for Measure, iii, 2 

Knowing. — 'Tain't a knowin' kind o' cattle 
Thet is ketched with mouldy corn. 

Lowell, The Biglow Papers, I, i, st. 1 

Knowledge. — Knowledge itself is a power. 

Bacon, Meditationes Sacrce: Heresies 

Knowledge by suffering entereth, 
And life is perfected by death. 

E. B. Browning, A Vision of Poets, 

Conclusion, st. 62 

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject our- 
selves, or we know where we can find information upon 
it. Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, April 11, 1775 



Knows — Labour 207 

Knows. He that tossed you down into the field, 

He knows about it all — He knows — HE knows! 

Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 70 

Labour. — The many still must labour for the one. 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 8 

Toiling in the naked fields, 
Where no bush a shelter yields, 
Needy Labour dithering stands, 
Beats and blows his numbing hands, 
And upon the crumping snows 
Stamps in vain to warm his toes. 

John Clare, The Labourer, st. 1 

They who tread the path of labour follow where My feet 

have trod ; 
They who work without complaining do the holy will of 

God. 



Nevermore thou needest seek Me ; I am with thee every- 
where ; 

Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me; cleave the 
wood, and I am there. — Henry van Dyke, Toiling 

of Felix, Legend, st. 83, 88 

Work — work — work ! 

My labour never flags; 
And what are its wages ? A bed of straw, 

A crust of bread — and rags. 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt 

Slave of the wheel of labour, what to him 
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? 
What the long reaches of the peaks of song, 1 
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose ? 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 3 

Ask not if neighbour 

Grind great or small: 
Spare not your labour, 

Grind your wheat all. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, The Mill, st. 1 



1 The singers have sung and the builders have builded, 
The painters have fashioned their tales of delight; 
For what and for whom hath the world's book been gilded, 
When all is for these but the blackness of night? 

William Morris, The Message of the March Wind, st. 1 1 



208 Labour — Ladder 

Two hands upon the breast, 

And labour 's done ; 
Two pale feet crossed in rest — 

The race is won; 
Two eyes with coin-weights shut, 

And all tears cease; 
Two lips where grief is mute, 

Anger at peace. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, Now and Afterwards, st. i 

Labour is worship. — F. S. Osgood, To Labour Is to Pray 

I have had my labour for my travail [travel]. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, i, i 

He who does not love his labour and does not put in- 
terest or dignity into it is a bad workman. 

Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, viii 

Labourer. — I am long past wailing and whining — 
I have wept too much in my life: 
I 've had twenty years of pining 
As an English labourer's wife. 

A labourer in Christian England, 

Where they cant of a Saviour's name, 
And yet waste men's lives like the vermin's 

For a few more brace of game. 

Kingsley, The Bad Squire, 1 st. 6, 7 

Labouring. — Labourin' man an' labourin' woman 
Hev one glory an' one shame. 
Ev'ythin' thet 's done inhuman 
Injers all on 'em the same. 

Lowell, The Biglow Papers, I, i, st. 10 

Laced. — They braced my aunt against a board, 

To make her straight and tall ; 
They laced her up, they starved her down, 

To make her light and small ; 
They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, 

They screwed it up with pins ; — 
Oh never mortal suffered more 

In penance for her sins. Holmes, My Aunt, st. 4 

Ladder. — Heaven is not reached at a single bound; 
But we build the ladder by which we rise 
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, 
And we mount to its summit round by round. 

J. G. Holland, Gradatim 



a Also known as "A Rough Rhyme on a Rough Matter." 



Lady — Landscape 209 

Lady. When a lady 's in the case, 

You know, all other things give place. 

Gay, The Hare and Many Friends, lines 41, 42 

I '11 make my heaven in a lady's lap. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iii, 2 

Lamb. — O Cassius! you are yoked with a lamb 
That carries anger as the flint bears fire, 
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, 
And straight is cold again. 

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, iv, 3 

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. 1 

Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, Maria 

Lamp. — When the lamp is shattered 
The light in the dust lies dead — 

When the cloud is scattered 
The rainbow's glory is shed. 
When the lute is broken, 
Sweet tones are remembered not; 

When the lips have spoken, 
Loved accents are soon forgot. 

Shelley, When the Lamp Is Shattered, st. 1 

Land. — "I hear thee speak of the better land, 
Thou call'st its "children a happy band; 
Mother! oh, where is that radiant shore? 
Shall we not seek it, and weep no more? " 

"Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! 
Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; 
Dreams cannot picture a world so fair — 
Sorrow and death may not enter there: 
Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom, 
For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb, 
It is there, it is there, my child!" 

Felicia Hemans, The Better Land, st. 1, 4 

Landlord. — The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. 

Burns, Tarn O'Shanter, st. 5 

Landscape.— Now fades the glimmering landscape on the 

sight, 
And all the air a solemn stillness holds. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 2 

x To a close-shorn sheen, God gives wind by measure. 

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentwn 



210 Language — Lass 

Language. — I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, 
Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, 
And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, 

With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, 
And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, 

That not a single accent seems uncouth, 
Like our harsh Northern whistling, grunting guttural, 
Which we 're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. 

Byron, Beppo, st. 44 

Language is a solemn thing, — I said. — It grows out 
of life, — out of its agonies and ecstasies, its wants and 
its weariness. — Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, ii 

Where nature's end of language is declined, 
And men talk only to conceal the mind. 

Young, Love of Fame, Satire ii, line 207 

Lards. Falstaff sweats to death, 

And lards the lean earth as he walks along. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 2 

Lark. — Merrily rose the lark, and shook 
The dewdrop from its wing. 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram 

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. 1 

James Hurdis, The Village Curate 

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings. 2 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ii, 3 

Lass. — A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. 

Lady Nairne, The Laird o' Cockpen, st. 2 

Let the toast pass, 
Drink to the lass, 
I '11 warrant she '11 prove an excuse for the glass. 

Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii, 3 

J At what precise minute that little airy musician doffs his night gear, and 
prepares to tune up his unseasonable matins, we are not naturalists enough 
to determine. But for a mere human gentleman — that has no orchestra 
business to call him from his warm bed to such preposterous exercises — we 
take ten, or half after ten, . . . to be the very earliest hour at which he 
can begin to think of abandoning his pillow. . . . To do it in earnest re- 
quires another half-hour's good consideration. 

Charles Lamb, Popular Fallacies, XIV 

2 Lost to sight th' ecstatic lark above 
Sings, like a soul beatified, of love. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 16 
The lark so shrill and clear, 
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings. — John Lyly, Campaspe, v, i 
Like to the lark, at break of day arising 
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet, xxix 



Lasses — Laugh 211 

Lasses. — Auld nature swears the lovely dears 

Her noblest work she classes, oh! 

Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, 

An' then she made the lasses, oh! 

Burns, Green Grow the Rashes, st. 5 

Lassie. — What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man? 

Burns, What Can a Young Lassie Do? st. 1 

Last. — My dreams have boded all too right — 
We part — for ever part — to-night ! 
I knew, I knew it could not last — 
'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past! 

T. Moore, Lalla Rookh: The Fire Worshippers 

Although the [our] last, not least. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 1 

Late. — While we send for the napkin the soup gets cold, 
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows old, 
When we 've matched our buttons the pattern is sold, 
And everything comes too late — too late! 

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Too Late, st. 2 

It is so very very late, 
That we may call it early by and by. 1 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 4 

Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill! 
Late, late, so late ! but we can enter still. 
Too late, too late ! ye cannot enter now. 2 

Tennyson, Guinevere, lines 166-168 

Better late than never. 

Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good 

Husbandry : An Habitation Enforced 

Latin. — Small Latin and less Greek. 

Ben Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare, line 31 

Oh, I smell false Latin! 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v, 1 

Laugh. — The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, line 121 

1 I am glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I was up so early. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ii, 3 
2 Changeless sentence of mortal fate, 
Freezing the marrow with — Too late! 

E. C. Stedman, Alice of Monmouth, xii, st. 3 



212 Laugh — Law 

I believe she could spread a horse-laugh through the 
pews of a tabernacle. 

Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, i 

They laugh that win. Shakespeare, Othello, iv, i 

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; 

Weep, and you weep alone ; 
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, 

But has trouble enough of its own. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, st. i 

Laughter. Methinks the older that one grows 

Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter 
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after. 

Byron, Beppo, st. 79 

Launched. — How hard it is for some people to get out of a 
room after their visit is really over. . . . One would 
think they had been built in your parlour or study, and 
were waiting to be launched. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Laurel. — No more shall the war-cry sever, 
Or the winding rivers be red; 
They banish our anger for ever 

When they laurel the graves of our dead. 

F. M. Finch, The Blue and the Gray, st. 7 

Law. — Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that 
her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of 
the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, 
the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not 
exempted from her power. 

R. Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, I 

There 's never a law of God or man runs north of 'Fifty- 
three. Kipling, The Rhyme of the Three Sealers 

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles 
in yeer face while it picks your pocket; and the glorious 
uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the 
justice of it. C. Macklin, Love d la Mode, ii, 1 

Why, law an' order, honour, civil right, 
Ef they ain't wuth it, wut is wuth a fight? 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 297, 298 

The plough, the axe, the mill, 
All kin's o' labour an' kin's o' skill, 
Would be a rabbit in a wile-cat's claw, 
Ef 't warn't for thet slow critter, 'stablished law. 

Ibid., lines 299-302 



Law 213 

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by 
transgressing most truly kept the law. 1 

Milton, Tetrachordon 

First Clown. He that is not guilty of his own death 
shortens not his own life. 

Second Clown. But is this law? 

First Clown. Ay, marry, is 't; crowner's quest law. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Old father antic the law. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 2 

I have been a truant in the law, 
And never yet could frame my will to it ; 
And therefore frame the law unto my will. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, ii, 4 

Between .to hawks, which flies the higher pitch; 
Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; 
Between two blades, which bears the better temper; 
Between two horses, which doth bear him best ; 
Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye; 
I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment: 
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, 
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. Ibid. 

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil? 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

If you deny me, fie upon your law! 

There is no force in the decrees of Venice. 

I stand for judgment : answer; shall I have it? 

Ibid., iv, 1 

The intent and purpose of the law 
Hath full relation to the penalty, 
Which here appeareth due upon the bond. Ibid. 

Man is more than Constitutions ; better rot beneath the sod, 
Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God! 
Lowell, On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near 

Washington, st. 5 

There is a higher law than the Constitution. 

W. H. Seward, Speech, March n, 1850 

And I beseech you, 
Wrest once the law to your authority : 
To do a great right, do a little wrong, 
And curb this cruel devil of his will. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 



214 Law — Lead 

Here 's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right 
in the law; 'twill hardly come out. 

Shakespeare, Pericles, ii, i 

Do as adversaries do in law, 
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, i, 2 

Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 4 

Let the law go whistle. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

The lawless science of our law, 
The codeless myriad of precedent, 
The wilderness of single instances, 
Through which a few, by wit or fortune led, 
May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, lines 435-438 

And joy was duty and love was law. 

Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 49 

Laws. — Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, st. 29 

Lawyer. — Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where 
be his quiddities [quiddits] now, his quillets, his cases, 
his tenures, and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude 
knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty 
shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Lawyers. — When lawyers take what they would give, 
And doctors give what they would take. 

Holmes, Latter-Day Warnings, st. 4 

Lay. — I '11 lay my head to any good man's hat. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, i, 1 

Lay on, Macduff, 
And damned be him [he] that first cries ' ' Hold, enough ! " x 
Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 8 [7] 

Lead.— Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, 
Lead thou me on! 

J. H. Newman, The Pillar of the Cloud, st. 1 



Foul fall him that blenches first. Scott, Marmion, vi, 12 



Leaking — Leaves 2 1 5 

Leaking. — Racketing her rivets loose, smoke-stack white as 
snow, 
All the coals adrift a deck, half the rails below, 
Leaking like a lobster-pot, steering like a dray — 
Out we took the "Bolivar," out across the bay. 

Kipling, Ballad of the Bolivar, st. 2 

Leal. — I'm wearing awa', Jean, 

Like snaw when it 's thaw, Jean, 
I 'm wearing awa' 

To the land o' the leal. 
There 's nae sorrow there, Jean, 
There 's neither cauld nor care, Jean, 
The day is aye fair, 
In the land o' the leal. 

Lady Nairne, The Land o' the Leal, st. 1 

Learn. She is not yet so old 

But she may learn. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

Learning. — Whence is thy learning? hath thy toil 
O'er books consumed the midnight oil? 

Gay, The Shepherd and the Philosopher, lines 15, 16 

A little learning is a dangerous thing; 
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 
And drinking largely sobers us again. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 215-218 

A progsny of learning. Sheridan, The Rivals, i, 2 

Leave. — And wilt thou leave me thus? 
That hath loved thee so long? 
In wealth and woe among : 
And is thy heart so strong 
As for to leave me thus? 
Say nay! say nay! 

Sir T. Wyat, An Earnest Suit to His Unkind 

Mistress Not to Forsake Him, st. 2 

Leaves. — Nothing but leaves ; the spirit grieves 
Over a wasted life; 
Sin committed while conscience slept, 
Promises made, but never kept, 
Hatred, battle, and strife; 
Nothing but leaves! 

L. E. Akerman, Nothing but Leaves, st. 1 



2 1 6 Leaves— Letter- writing 

Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, 
That host with their banners at sunset were seen: 
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, 
That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. 

Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 2 

The book of Nature 
Getteth short of leaves. Hood, The Season, st. 2 

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 

In Vallombrosa. — Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 302, 303 

Leek. — I '11 knock his leek about his pate 
Upon Saint Davy's day. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 1 

I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will 
peat his pate four days. Pite, I pray you; it is goot for 
your green wound and your ploody coxcomb. — Ibid., v, 1 

Leg. His leg, then broke, 

Had got a deputy of oak ; 
For when a shin in fight is cropped, 
The knee with one of timber 's propped, 
Esteemed more honourable than the other, 
And takes place, though the younger brother. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, ii, lines 141-146 

Legislators. — When legislators keep the law, 
When banks dispense with bolts and locks, 

Holmes, hatter-Day Warnings, st. 1 

Letter. — Any man that can write may answer a letter. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

Letters. — Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, 
Some banished lover, or some captive maid; 
They . . . 

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. 1 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, lines 51-58 

Letter- writing. — She '11 vish there wos more, an' that 's the 
great art o' letter-writin'. 

Dickens, Pickwick Papers, xxxiii 

1 Whilst all the stars that round her burn, 
And all the planets in their turn, 
Confirm the tidings as they roll, 
And spread the truth from pole to pole.* 

Addison, Hymn: The Spacious Firmament on High, st. 2 

* Like a sea of glory- 
It spreads from pole to pole. R. Heber, Missionary Hymn, st. 4 



Level— Liberty 2 1 7 

Level. — We met upon the level an' we parted on the square. 
Kipling, The Mother-Lodge, st. 2 

Levite. You, Levite small, 

Who shut your saintly ears, and prate of hell 
And heretics, because outside church-doors, 
Your church-doors, congregations poor and small 
Praise heaven in their own way. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, The Dead Czar, st. 5 

Liar. — Thou liar of the first magnitude! 

Congreve, Love for Love, ii, 5 [1] 

Liberty. — O Liberty! the prisoner's pleasing dream, 
The poet's muse, his passion, and his theme. 

Cowper, Table Talk, lines 288, 289 

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased 
at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty 
God ! — I know not what course others may take ; but 
as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. 

Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia 

Assembly, March 23, 1775 

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same 
time. — Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of 

British America 

Make way for liberty! he cried, 
Make way for liberty, and died. 

Thus Switzerland again was free; 
Thus death made way for liberty. 

James Montgomery, The Patriot 1 s Password, st. 1, 9 

O'er the wild mountains and luxuriant plains, 
Nature in all the pomp of beauty reigns, 
In all the pride of freedom. — Nature free 
Proclaims that Man was born for liberty. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, i, st. 14 

Give me again my hollow tree, 
A crust of bread, and liberty! 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Satire vi, 

lines 220, 22i 

O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed 
in thy name! 1 M. J. P. Roland 

I must have liberty 
Withal, as large a charter as the wind, 
To blow on whom I please; for so fools have. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

1 License they mean when they cry liberty. Milton, On Detraction 



2i 8 Liberty — Lie 

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and in- 
separable. — Daniel Webster, Second Speech on 

Foote's Resolution, January, 1830 

Library. My library 

Was dukedom large enough. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

Lie. — If the devil, to serve his turn, 

Can tell truth ; why the saints should scorn, 
When it serves theirs, to swear and lie, 
I think there 's little reason why. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, lines 123-126 

After all, what is a lie? 'T is but 
The truth in masquerade; and I defy 
Historians, heroes, lawyers, priests, to put 
A fact without some leaven of a lie. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xi, st. 37 

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: 

A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1 

George Herbert, The Church Porch, st. 13 

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits 
them all. 2 Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi 

He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would 
think truth were a fool. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, iv, 3 

Jaques. Can you nominate in order now the degrees 
of the lie? 

Touchstone. I will name you the degrees. The first, 
the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the 
third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof 
Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the 
sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie 
Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct, 
and you may avoid that, too, with an If. 3 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 4 

If I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

1 He that does one fault at first, 

And lies to hide it, makes it two. Isaac Watts, Song xv 

2 Who dares think one thing, and another tell, 

My heart detests him as the gates of hell. — Pope, Iliad, IX, lines 

412-413 
3 Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If. 

Shakespeare, .4s You Like It, v, 4 



Lie— Life 



219 



You lie in your throat. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

Like one 
Who having into truth, by telling of it, 
Made such a sinner of his memory, 
To credit his own lie, he did believe 
He was indeed the duke. — Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

You lie — under a mistake — 
For this is the most civil sort of lie 
That can be given to a man's face. 1 

Shelley, Scenes from the Magico Prodigioso, Scene 1 

And the parson made it his text that week, and he said 

likewise 
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, 
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with 

outright, 
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. 
Tennyson, The Grandmother, st. 8 



Life. 



Life 's but a series of trifles at best. 2 

Anonymous, cited in Memoir of Laurence Sterne 



Is life worth living? Yes, so long 

As there is wrong to right, 
Wail of the weak against the strong, 

Or tyranny to fight; 
Long as there lingers gloom to chase, 

Or streaming tear to dry, 
One kindred woe, one sorrowing face 

That smiles as we draw nigh. 

So long as faith with freedom reigns 

And loyal hope survives, 
And gracious charity remains 

To leaven lowly lives; 



'Should captains the remark, or critics, make, 
They also lie too — under a mistake. — Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 208 

! Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown; 
The reading of an ever-changing tale; 
The light uplifting of a maiden's veil; 
A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air; 
A laughing schoolboy, without grief or care, 
Riding the springy branches of an elm. 

Keats, 

Life is a jest,* and all things show it: 
I thought so once, but now I know it. 

* Man's life is but a jest, 
A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapour at the best. 

G. W. Thornbury, The Jester's Sermon 



and Poetry, lines 90-95 
Gay, My Own Epitaph 



220 Life 

Life — Continued 

While there is one untrodden tract 

For intellect or will, 
And men are free to think and act, 
Life is worth living still. 

Alfred Austin, Is Life Worth Living, st. 4 

Life 's more than breath and the quick round of blood, — 
It is a great spirit and a busy heart. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — A Country- 
Town — Market-place — Noon 

Life! I know not what thou art, 
But know that thou and I must part ; 
And when, or how, or where we met 
I own to me 's a secret yet. 

Life ! we 've been long together 
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather, 
'T is hard to part when friends are dear — 
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; 
Then steal away, give little warning, 

Choose thine own time; 
Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime 

Bid me Good Morning. 

A. L. Barbauld, Life! I Know Not, etc., st. 1, 3 

Life treads on life, and heart on heart; 
We press too close in church and mart 
To keep a dream or grave apart. 

E. B. Browning, A Vision of Poets, Conclusion, st. 1 

Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. 

Byron, Childe Harold, Canto iii, st. 8 

If when for life's prizes 

You 're running, you trip, 
Get up, start again — 

"Keep a stiff upper lip!" 

Phcebe Cary, Keep a Stiff Upper Lip, st. 2 

Side by side, for the way was one, 

The toilsome journey of life was done, 

And all who in Christ the Saviour died 

Came out alike on the other side; 

No forms, or crosses, or books had they, 

No gowns of silk, or suits of grey, 

No creeds to guide them, or MSS., 

For all had put on Christ's righteousness. 

Mrs. Cleveland, No Sect in Heaven, st. 23 



Life 221 

To know, to esteem, to love, — and then to part, — 
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. 

S. T. Coleridge, The Two Sisters, lines i, 2 

Life, that dares send 

A challenge to his end, 

And when it conies, say, "Welcome, friend." 

R. Crashaw, Wishes to His Supposed Mistress, st. 29 

Life, what is it but a dream? 1 

C. L. Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll"), Through the 

Looking-Glass, Ad Finem 

Every life has pages vacant still, 
Whereon a man may write the thing he will. 

Henry van Dyke, A Legend of Service, st. 2 



Life protracted is protracted woe. — Samuel John- 
son, The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 258 

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, 

I have drunk my share of wine ; 
From Trier to Coin there was never a knight 

Led a merrier life than mine. 2 

Kingsley, The Knight's Leap, st. 3 

Our cradle is the starting-place, 

Life is the running of the race, 

We reach the goal 

When, in the mansions of the blest, 

Death leaves to its eternal rest 

The weary soul. — Longfellow, Translation: Coplas 

de Manrique, st. 10 

1 Time fleets, youth fades, life is an empty dream. 

Robert Browning, Paracelsus, ii 

2 Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, 
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. 

Not heaven itself upon the past has power; 
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. 

Dryden, Paraphrase of Horace, III, Ode 29, lines 69-72 

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; 
It sinks, and I am ready to depart. 

Walter Savage Landor, On Himself 

I have worked — I have felt — I have lived — I have loved.* 

D. M. Mulock Craik, The Good of It — Moral 



^I've lived and loved. — Coleridge, trans, of Schiller's Wallenstein, 

I, ii, 6 
And I have lived and loved, and closed the door. 

R. L. Stevenson, / Hare Trod the Upward and the 

Downward Slope 



222 Life 

Life — Continued 

A few more goings in and out these doors, 
A few more chimings of these convent bells, 
A few more prayers, a few more sighs and tears, 
And the long agony of this life will end. 1 

Longfellow, Michael Angelo, II, ii 

Tell me not in mournful numbers, 

Life is but an empty dream! 
For the soul is dead that slumbers, 

And things are not what they seem. 

Life is real! Life is earnest! 

And the grave is not its goal; 
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 

Was not spoken of the soul. 

Longfellow, Psalm of Life, st. i, 2 

This speck of life in time's great wilderness, 
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, 2 
The past, the future, two eternities! — T. Moore, 

Lalla Rookh : The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan 

I 've wandered east, I 've wandered west, 

Through mony a weary way; 
But never, never can forget 

The luve o' life's young day! 

William Motherwell, Jeanie Morrison, st. 1 

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow 
is : Hit the line hard ; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit 
the line hard. Theodore Roosevelt, cited by 

Jacob Riis in Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen, i 

The life that is worth living is worth working for. 

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at La Crosse, 

Wisconsin, 1903 
Uncertain life, and sure death. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, ii, 3 

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill 
together. Ibid., iv, 3 

l A few more years shall roll, 

A few more seasons come, 
And we shall be with those that rest 
Asleep within the tomb. 

H. Bonar, A Hymn for the Closing Year, st. 1 
2 These sands betwixt two tides. 

E. B. Browning, Aurora Leigh, VII, line 1064 
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. 
Robert G. Ingersoll, Oration at the Funeral of His Brother, 

E.C. 



Life 223 

I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; 

And for my soul, what can it do to that, 

Being a thing immortal as itself? 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 4 

Nothing in his life 
Became him like the leaving it. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 4 

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; 

Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor poison, 

Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, 

Can touch him further. Ibid., iii, 2 

I have lived long enough : my way of iife 
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; 1 
And that which should accompany old age, 
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I must not look to have; but, in their stead, 
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and [but] dare not. 

Ibid., v, 3 
I am married to a wife 
Which is as dear to me as life itself; 
But life itself, my wife, and all the world, 
Are not with me esteemed above thy life. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

You take my house when you do take the prop 
That doth sustain my house. You take my life 
When you do take the means whereby I live. Ibid. 

Where is the life that late I led? 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 1 

Gonzalo. Here is everything advantageous to life. 
Antonio. True; save means to live. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 1 

It seems that life is all a void, 
On selfish thoughts alone employed; 
That length of days is not a good, 
Unless their use be understood. 

Jane Taylor, The Toad's Journal 

1 Now my sere fancy "falls into the yellow leaf." 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto iv, st. z 
My days are in the yellow leaf; 

The flowers and fruits of love are gone; 
The worm, the canker, and the grief, 

Are mine alone! — Byron, On Completing His Thirty-Sixth Year, st. 2 



224 Life — Light 

Two children in two neighbour villages 
Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ; 
Two strangers meeting at a festival; 
Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall ; 
Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease; 1 
Two graves grass-green beside a grey church-tower, 
Washed with still rains and daisy -blossomed; 
Two children in one hamlet born and bred : 
So runs the round of life from hour to hour. 

Tennyson, Circumstance 

Through all this changing world of changeless law, 
And every phase of ever-heightening life. 

Tennyson, De Profundis, i 

Shadow and shine is life, little Annie, flower and thorn. 
Tennyson, The Grandmother, st. 15 

The tree of deepest root is found 
Least willing still to quit the ground; 
'Twas therefore said, by ancient sages, 

That love of life increased with years 
So much, that in our later stages, 
When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, 

The greatest love of life appears. 

Hester L. Thrale (Piozzi), The Three Warnings 

He sins against this life who slights the next. 

Young, Night Thoughts, III, line 400 

That life is long which answers life's great end. 

Ibid., V, line 773 

Light. Not by eastern windows only, 

When daylight comes, comes in the light. 
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, 
But westward, look, the land is bright! 

A. H. Clough, Say Not the Struggle Nought 

Availeth, st. 4 

'Two souls with but a single thought, 
Two hearts that beat as one. — Maria Lovell, Ingomar the Barbarian 

So we grew together, 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, 
But yet an union in partition; 
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem; 
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, iii, 2 

We still have sleot together, 
Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, 
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, 
Still we went coupled and inseparable. 

Shakespeare, As You Like, It, 1, 3 



Light— Line 225 

There's a fount about to stream, 
There 's a light about to beam, 
There 's a flower about to blow, 
There 's a warmth about to glow, 
There 's a midnight darkness changing 

Into grey, 
Men of thought and men of action, 

Cleartheway ! — Charles Mackay, Clearthe Way, st. i 

Storied windows richly dight, 
Casting a dim religious light. 

Milton, II Penseroso, lines 159, 160 

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? 
It is the east, 1 and Juliet is the sun. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

The light that never was, on sea or land. 

Wordsworth, Elegiac Stanzas on a Picture of 

Peele Castle, st. 4 

Likeness. — As sometimes in a dead man's face, 
To those that watch it more and more, 
A likeness, hardly seen before, 
Comes out — to some one in his race. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxiv, st. 1 

Lilies. — In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the 
sea, 
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me : 
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, 
While God is marching on. 

Julia Ward Howe, Battle-Hymn of the 

Republic, st. 5 
Lily. — A most unspotted lily. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 5 [4] 

Lincoln. — ■ You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, 
You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, 
Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, 

His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 1 

Linden. — On Linden, when the sun was low, 
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; 
And dark as winter was the flow 

Of Iser, rolling rapidly. — Campbell, Hohenlinden, st. 1 

Line. — "I see you a shaving of a baker, . . . last week," 
said the coal-heaver. — "It's necessary to draw the line 
somewheres," replied [the barber] . . . "We can't go 
beyond bakers." Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, lii 

J The East is unveiled, the East hath confessed 
A flush. Lanier, Sunrise, lines 120, 121 



226 Linen — Lip 

Linen. — It is not linen you 're wearing out, 
But human creatures' lives! 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt, st. 4 
They '11 find linen enough on every hedge. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iv, 2 

Linnets. — I do but sing because I must, 
And pipe but as the linnets sing. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxi, st. 6 
Lion. — Old England! thy name shall yet warrant thy fame, 
If the brow of the foeman should scowl; 
Let the Lion be stirred by too daring a word, 
And beware of his echoing growl. 

Eliza Cook, The Red Cross of England, st. 1 
The lion's paw is all the law. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, Jonathan to John, st. 1 

The man that once did sell the lion's skin 

While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 3 
When the lion fawns upon the lamb, 
The lamb will never cease to follow him. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iv, 8 

Oh, well did he become that lion's robe, 
That did disrobe the lion of that robe. 

Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 
Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, 
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. 

Ibid., iii, 1 
There is a lion in the way. 1 

Tennyson, The Holy Grail, line 643 
Lip. — Our vicar he calls it damnation to sip 
The ripe ruddy dew of a woman's dear lip, 2 
Says, that Beelzebub lurks in her kerchief so sly, 
And Apollyon shoots darts from her merry black eye; 
Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker, 
Till she bloom like a rose, and a fig for the vicar! 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto vi, st. 2 

1 He espied two lions in the way. . . . The lions were chained, but he 
saw not the chains. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, I, iii 

2 You have witchcraft in your lips. — Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 2 
Oh, how ripe in show 
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, iii, 2 
Her lips were red; and one was thin, 
Compared to that was next her chin; 
(Some bee had stung it newly). 

Sir John Suckling, Ballad Upon a Wedding, st. 11 
Many an evening by the waters did we watch the stately ships, 
And our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 37, 38 



Lips — Live 227 



Lips. — Oh, that those lips had language! Life has passed 
With me but roughly since I heard thee last. 

Cowper, On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture, 

lines i, 2 

My lips are no common, though several they be. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, ii 

Live. — We live in deeds, not years; 1 in thoughts, not breaths; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — A Country Town 

— Market-place — Noon 

So live, that when thy summons comes to join 
The innumerable caravan that moves 
To that mysterious realm where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 2 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, lines 73-81 

On parent knees, a naked new-born child, 
[Naked on parent knees, a new-born child] 
Weeping thou sat 'st while all around thee smiled ; 
So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, 
Calm thou [Thou then] mayst smile, while all around thee 
weep. — Calidasa, The Babe (trans. Sir William Jones) 

Live while you live, the epicure would say, 
And seize the pleasures of the present day; 
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies. 
Lord, in my views, let both united be; 
I live in pleasure when I live to thee. 

Doddridge, Epigram on his Family Arms (Dum 

vivimus vivamus) 

1 He most lives 
Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — A Country Town — 

Market-place — Noon 

Trust not in words, but deeds. — Young, Night Thoughts, VII, line 1005 

2 Live well, and fear no sudden fate; 
When God calls virtue to the grave, 
Alike 'tis justice, soon or late, 

Mercy alike to kill or save. 
Virtue unmoved can hear the call, 
And face the flash that melts the ball. 

Pope, Epitaphs on John Hughes and Sarah Drew, St. 2 



228 Live — Lives 

So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 
Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease 
Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, XI, lines 535-537 

I would not live alway : I ask not to stay 
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way. 

W. A. Muhlenberg, / Would Not Live Alway, st. 2 

He knows to live, who keeps the middle state, 
And neither leans on this side, nor on that. — Pope, 

Imitations of Horace, II, Satire ii, lines 61, 62 

"Let me not live," quoth he, 
"After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff 
Of younger spirits." 1 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 2 

Lived. — She lived. 2 — What further can be said 
Of all the generations dead? 
She died. — What else can be foretold 
Of all the living, young or old ? 

James Montgomery, Epitaph 

Livery. — He was a man 

Who stole the livery of the court of heaven 
To serve the devil in. 

Pollok, The Course of Time, VIII, lines 616-618 

Lives. — Our lives are rivers, gliding free 
To that unfathomed, boundless sea, 

The silent grave! 
Thither all earthly pomp and boast 
Roll, to be swallowed up and lost 
In one dark wave. 
Longfellow, Translation: Coplas de Manrique, st. 5 

1 Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; 

You've played, and loved, and eat, and drank your fill: 

Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age 

Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle ii, lines 322-325 

2 Once in the flight of ages past, 

There lived a man: — and who was he? 
— Mortal! howe'er thy lot be cast, 
That Man resembled thee. 



The annals of the human race, 
Their ruins, since the world began, 
Of him afford no other trace 
Than this, — There lived a man. 

James Montgomery, The Common Lot, st. 



Living — Lodgings 229 

Living. — How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to 

employ- 
All the heart and the soul and the senses for ever in joy! 
R. Browning, Saul, ix 
Thank Heaven ! the crisis — 

The danger is past, 
And the fingering illness 

Is over at last — 
And the fever called "Living'! 

Is conquered at last. Poe, For Annie, st. i 

Not what we would, but what we must, 
Makes up the sum of living. 

R. H. Stoddard, The Country Life, st. i 

No means of stopping for breath, to have one hour's 
quiet for reposeful thought, nor to exchange a peaceful 
word. No, this is not living! 

Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, i 

Plain living and high thinking. 

Wordsworth, Sonnet: London, 1802 

Loafe. — I loafe and invite my soul. 

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1 

Lochaber. — Farewell to Lochaber! and farewell, my Jean, 
Where heartsome with thee I hae mony day been; 
For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, 
We '11 maybe return to Lochaber no more! 

Allan Ramsay, Lochaber No More, st. 1 

Lochinvar. — Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the west ! 

Scott, Marmion, v, 12 

Locks. — Thou canst not say I did it : never shake 

Thy gory locks at me. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Lodge. — Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 
Some boundless contiguity of shade, 
Where rumor of oppression and deceit, 
Of unsuccessful or successful war, 
Might never reach me more. 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 1-5 

Lodgings. — Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one, 
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done; 
A stone at the head, a stone at the feet, 
A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat ; 
Rank grass over head, and damp clay around, 
Brave lodgings for one, these, in holy ground. 

Dickens, Pickwick Papers, xxix 



230 Logic — Lord 

Logic. — Logic is logic. That 's all I say. 

Holmes, The Deacon' s Masterpiece, st. 12 

Logs. — Bring in great logs and let them lie, 
To make a solid core of heat. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvii, st. 5 

Lone. — A poor lone woman. 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 1 

Loneliness. — But it was something still to know 

Thy dawn and dusk were mine, 
And that we felt the same breeze blow, 

And saw the same star shine : 
And still the shadowy hope was rife 
That once in this waste weary life 

My path might cross with thine, 
And one brief gleam of beauty bless 
My spirit's utter loneliness. Praed, A Farewell, st. 4 

Long-ago. — The lusty days of long-ago, 
When you were Bill and I was Joe. 

Holmes, Bill and Joe, st. 1 

Longings. I have 

Immortal longings in me. 2 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2 

Look. Look before you ere you leap; 

For, as you sow, y' re like to reap. 3 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, lines 503, 504 

Looked. — Sighed and looked unutterable things. 

Thomson, The Seasons: Summer, line 1188 

Lopping. — Lopping away of the limb by the pitiful-pitiless 
knife, — 
Torture and trouble in vain, — for it never could save us 
a life. Tennyson, Defence of Lucknow, st. 6 

Lord. — They never sought in vain that sought the Lord 
aright! Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 6 

1 1 am a lone lorn creetur and everythink goes contrairy with me. 

Dickens, David Copperfield, I, iii 

2 1 had immortal feelings. R. Browning, Paracelsus, iii 

I feel the infinite in me. — Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, IV, 231 

3 Looke ere thou leape, see ere thou go. 

Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good 

Husbandry: Of Wiving and Thriving 



Lord — Love 231 

But let a lord once own the happy lines, 
How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! 
Before his sacred name flies every fault, 
And each exalted stanza teems with thought ! 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 420-423 

Lords. These old pheasant -lords, 

These partridge-breeders of a thousand years. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, lines 381, 382 

Lose. — Oh, misery! must I lose that too ? 

Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh: The Fire-Worshippers 

Loss. — Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 
What though the mast be now blown overboard, 
The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost, 
And half our sailors swallowed in the flood! 
Yet lives our pilot still. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, v, 4 

Lost. — For 't is a truth well known to most, 
That whatsoever thing is lost, 
We seek it, ere it comes to light, 
In every cranny but the right. 

Cowper, The Retired Cat 

What though the field be lost? 
All is not lost j 1 the unconquerable will, 
And study of revenge, immortal hate, 
And courage never to submit or yield. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 105-108 

The quiet sense of something lost. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxviii, st. 2 

Lothario. — Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario? 

N. Rowe, The Fair Penitent, v, 1 

* Love. — Love will find out the way. 

Anonymous, The Great Adventurer, st. 1, quoted 

in Richard Brome's Sparagus Garden 

But had I wist, before I kissed, 

That love had been sae ill to win, 
I 'd locked my heart in a case o' gowd, 

And pinned it wi' a siller pin. 

Anonymous, Waly, Waly, st. 5 

Be ye certain all seems love, 
Viewed from Allah's throne above; 

1 All is lost save honour. 

Francis I, Letter after his defeat at Pavia, February 24, 1525 



232 Love 

Love — Continued 

Be ye stout of heart, and come 
Bravely onward to your home! 
La Allah ilia Allah! yea! 
Thou love divine! Thou love alway! 

Sir Edwin Arnold, After Death in Arabia, st. 7 

I loved thee once, I '11 love no more, 
Thine be the grief as is the blame ; 
Thou art not what thou wast before, 
What reason I should be the same? 
He that can love unloved again, 
Hath better store of love than brain: 
God sends me love my debts to pay, 
While unthrifts fool their love away. 

Sir R. Ayton, Woman's Inconstancy, st. 1 

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfect - 
eth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth 1 it. 

Bacon, Essay X: Of Love 

Love is the art of hearts and heart of arts. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — Home 

Wilt thou cure thine heart 
Of love, and all its smart, — ■ 
Then die, dear, die! 
T. L. Beddoes, If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart 

Many a soul, o'er life's drear desert faring, 
Love's pure congenial spring unfound, unquaffed, 
Suffers — recoils — then, thirsty and despairing 

Of what it would, descends and sips the nearest 
draught! M. G. Brooks, Disappointment 

If you loved only what were worth your love, 
Love were clear gain. 

R. Browning, James Lee's Wife, vii, st. 2 

No torment is so bad as love. Burton, Anatomy 

of Melancholy, The Author's Abstract, line 61 

Love is a boy, by poets styled, 

Then spare the rod, and spoil the child. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, i, lines 843, 844 

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 
'Tis woman's whole existence. 2 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 194 

1 Love did embase him 

Into a kitchen drudge. Thirteenth Century Ballad 

2 In her first passion woman loves her lover, 

In all the others all she loves is love. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto iii, st. 3 
Most men know love but as a part of life. Timrod, Sonnet, line 1 



Love 233 

The cold in clime are cold in blood, 

Their love can scarce deserve the name, 

But mine was like the lava flood 

That boils in ^Etna's breast of flame. 

I cannot prate in puling strain 

Of ladye-love, and beauty's chain: 

If changing cheek, and scorching vein, 

Lips taught to writhe, but not complain, 

If bursting heart, and madd'ning brain, 

And daring deed, and vengeful steel, 

And all that I have felt, and feel. 

Betoken love — that love was mine, 

And shown by many a bitter sign. 

'Tis true I could not whine nor sigh, 

I knew but to obtain or die. 

I die — but first I have possessed, 

And, come what may, I have been blest. 1 

Byron, The Giaour, lines 1099-1115 

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven, 

A spark of that immortal fire 
With angels shared, by Allah given, 

To lift from earth our low desire. 
Devotion wafts the mind above, 
But heaven itself descends in love; 
A feeling from the Godhead caught, 
To wean from self each sordid thought ; 
A ray of him who formed the whole ; 
A glory circling round the soul! Ibid., lines 1131-1140 

Time shall make the bushes green; 

Time dissolve the winter snow; 
Winds be soft, and skies serene; 
Linnets sing their wonted strain: 
But again 
Blighted love shall never blow. — Luis de Camoens, 

Blighted Love (trans. Lord Strangford), st. 3 

Love 's a fire that needs renewal 

Of fresh beauty for its fuel; 

Love's wing moults when caged and captured, 2 

Only free, he soars enraptured. 

Campbell, Song: How Delicious is the Winning, st. 1 

iCf. Life. 

2 How the light, light love, he has wings to fly 

At suspicion of a bond. R. Browning, James Lee's Wife, iv, st. 8 

Curse on all laws but those which love has made. 
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, lines 74-76 



234 Love 

Love — Continued 

Then fly betimes, for only they 
Conquer love that run away. 

Thomas Carew, Conquest by Flight, st. 2 

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 
All are but ministers of love, 
And feed his sacred flame. 

S. T. Coleridge, Love, st. 1 

Two people who cannot afford to play cards for money 
sometimes sit down to a quiet game for love. 

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, i 

Love 's the subject of the comic muse. 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, line 24 

Love, studious how to please, improves our parts 
With polished manners, and adorns with arts. 

Ibid., lines 31, 32 
Since love is held the master-passion, 
Its loss must be the pain supreme. 

P. L. Dunbar, Lyrics of Lowly Life, lone, i 

O, dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye: 

Troth, I daurna tell! 
Dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye, — 

Ask it o' yoursel'. 

John Dunlop, Dinna Ask Me, st. 1 

Love is joy and grief, 
And trembling doubt, and certain-sure belief, 
And fear, and hope, and longing unexpressed, 
In pain most human, and in rapture brief 

Almost divine. 

Henry van ~Dyke, Music : The Symphony, st. 2 

If with love thy heart has burned ; 
If thy love is unreturned ; 
Hide thy grief within thy breast, 
Though it tear thee unexpressed. 

Emerson, To Rhea, st. 2 

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 1 

My dear and only love. — James Graham, Marquis 

op Montrose, My Dear and Only Love, st. 1 

Pray love me little, so you love me long. 

Herrick, Love Me Little, Love Me Long 



Love 235 

We die with love, and never dream we 're dead. 

Holmes, Prologue, ad finem 

Love prays devoutly when it prays for love. 

Hood, Hero and Leander, st. 20 

You say — Sir Andrew and his love of law, 
And I — the Saviour with his law of love. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. n 

Love thwarted in bad temper oft has vent. 

Keats, The Cap and Bells, st. 20 

Love never dies, but lives, immortal Lord. 

Keats, Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, st. 50 

Love in a hut, with water, and a crust, 

Is — Love, forgive us ! — cinders, ashes, dust ; 

Love in a palace is perhaps at last 

More grievous torment than a hermit's fast. 

Keats, Lamia, ii, st. 1 

What do the doves say? Curuck-coo, 
You love me and I love you. 1 

Kingsley, Juventus Mundi, lines 75, 76 

The light of love shines over all; 

Of love, that says not mine and thine, 

But ours, for ours is thine and mine. 

Longfellow, Hanging of the Crane, ii, st. 2 

Tell me, my heart, if this be love. 

Lord Lyttleton, Tell Me, My Heart, st. 1 

I love the song of birds, 
And the children's early words, 
And a loving woman's voice, low and sweet, John Brown. 
Charles Mackay, John Brown, st. 2 

Come live with me and be my love, 
And we will all the pleasures prove 
That hills and valleys, dales and fields, 
Woods or steepy mountain yields. 

Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, st. 1 

1 The lark is so brimful of gladness and love, 
The green fields below him, the blue sky above, 
That he sings, and he sings; and for ever sings he — 
I love my love, and my love loves me. 

S. T. Coleridge, Answer to a Child's Question, lines 9-12 
I love my love, because I know 

My love loves me. Mackay, I Love My Love 

I love my love, and my love loves me. — Gerald Massey, I Love My Love 
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his. — Sir Philip Sidney, 

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Heart-Exchange 



236 Love 

Love — Continued 

Too often Love's insidious dart 
Thrills the fond soul with wild desire, 
But kills the heart. 

James Montgomery, The Grave, st. 21 

Oh ! what was love made for, if 't is not the same 
Through joy and through torment, through glory and 

shame ? 
I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart, 
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. 

T. Moore, Come, Rest in This Bosom, st. 2 

Oh! the days are gone, when Beauty bright 

My heart's chain wove; 
When my dream of life, from morn till night, 
Was love, still love. 
New hope may bloom, 
And days may come, 
Of milder, calmer beam, 
But there 's nothing half so sweet in life 

As love's young dream : 
No, there 's nothing half so sweet in life 
As love's young dream. 

T. Moore, Love's Young Dream, st. 1 

We loved with a love that was more than love. 

Poe, Annabel Lee, st. 2 

But our love it was stronger by far than the love 

Of those who were older than we — 

Of many far wiser than we — 
And neither the angels in heaven above, 

Nor the demons down under the sea, 
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul 

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. Ibid., st. 5 

Thou would 'st be loved? — then let thy heart 

From its present pathway part not! 
Being everything which now thou art, 

Be nothing which thou art not. 
So with the world thy gentle ways, 

Thy grace, thy more than beauty, 
Shall be an endless theme of praise, 

And love — a simple duty. 

Poe, To F S. O D 

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? 
To bear too tender or too firm a heart, 
To act a lover's or a Roman's part? 

Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, lines 6-8 



Love 237 

Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to love? 

Pope, Elo'isa to Abelard, line 80 

Who love too much, hate in the like extreme, 
And both the golden mean alike condemn. 

Pope, Odyssey, XV, lines 79, 80 

I think that you will love me still, 

Though far our fates may be; 
And that your heart will fondly thrill 

When strangers ask of me ; 
My praise will be your proudest theme 

When these dark days are past : 
If this be all an idle dream, 

It is my last ! Praed, The Last, st. 4 

If all the world and love were young, 
And truth on every shepherd's tongue, 
These pleasures might my passion move 
To live with thee, and be thy love. 

Raleigh, Reply to Marlowe's Passionate 

Shepherd, st. 1 
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
And men below, and saints above j 1 
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto iii, st. 2 

True love 's the gift which God has given 
To man alone beneath the heaven: 
It is not fantasy's hot fire, 

Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; 
It liveth not in fierce desire, 

With dead desire it doth not die; 
It is the secret sympathy, 
The silver link, the silken tie, 
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 
In body and in soul can bind. Ibid., Canto v, st. 13 

j / 
i^Love will still be lord of all. Ibid., Canto vi, st. 11 

A laggard in love and a dastard in war. 

Scott, Marmion, v, 12 
Countess. Love you my son? 
Helena. Do you not love him, madam? 2 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 1 

J It is the imponderables that move the world, — heat, electricity, love. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi 
2 Mrs. Bagot. Are you so fond of him? 

Trilby. Fond of him? Are n't you? 

Mrs. Bagot. I 'm his mother, my good girl! — Du Maurier, Trilby, iv 



238 Love 

Love — Continued 

Down on your knees, 
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 5 

Men have died from time to time, and worms have 
eaten them, but not for love. Ibid., iv, 1 

This is the very ecstasy of love. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 1 

Ophelia. Tis brief, my lord. 

Hamlet. As woman's love. Ibid., iii, 2 

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; 
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. 

Ibid. 
Though last, not least in love. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 1 

When love begins to sicken and decay, 

It useth an enforced ceremony. Ibid., iv, 2 

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 
"I love you." Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 2 

My love 's 
More richer than my tongue. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 1 

This love is as mad as Ajax, 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, iv, 3 

Love, whose month is ever May. Ibid. 

What ! do I love her, 
That I desire to hear her speak again, 
And feast upon her eyes? 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

There 's something tells me (but it is not love) 
I would not lose you. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven 
may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are 
married, and have more occasion to know one another: 
I hope upon familiarity will grow more contempt. 

Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 1 

For aught that I could ever read, 
Could ever hear by tale or history, 
The course of true love never did run smooth. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, i, 1 



Love 239 

Speak low, if you speak love. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 1 

If he be not in love with some woman, there is no be- 
lieving old signs: 1 a' brushes his hat o' mornings; what 
should that bode? Ibid., iii, 2 

"Suffer love!" — a good epithet! Ibid., v, 2 

Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, 

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, 

Chaos is come again. Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; 

For stony limits cannot hold love out : 

And what love can do, that dares love attempt. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 

May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. — Ibid. 

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 

My love as deep ; the more I give to thee, 

The more I have, for both are infinite. Ibid. 

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, 
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. — Ibid. 

So true a fool is love, that in your will, 
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. 

Shakespeare, Sonnet lvii 
What is love? 'tis not hereafter; 
Present mirth hath present laughter; 

What 's to come is still unsure : 
In delay there lies no plenty ; 
Then come kiss me, sweet-and -twenty, 

Youth 's a stuff will not endure. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 3 

1 There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he taught me how to 
know a man in love. ... A lean cheek, ... a blue eye and sunken 
. . . an unquestionable spirit, ... a beard neglected, 
then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve 
unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a 
careless desolation. Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme and to be melancholy. Ibid. 

Valentine. Why, how know you that I am in love? 

Speed. Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned like Sir 
Proteus, to wreathe your arms, like a malcontent; to relish a love-song, 
like a robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to 
sigh, like a schoolboy that had lost his ABC; to weep, like a young wench 
that had buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes diet; to watch, 
like one that fears robbing; to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. 
You were wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you walked, 
to walk like one of the lions; when you fasted, it was presently after dinner; 
when you looked sadly, it was for want of money : and now you are meta- 
morphosed with a mistress, that, when I look on you, I can hardly think you 
my master. Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 1 



240 Love 

Love— Continued 

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

Ibid., iii, i 
Oh, how this spring of love resembleth 
The uncertain glory of an April day, 
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 
And by and by a cloud takes all away! 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 3 

Speed. If you love her, you cannot see her. 

Valentine. Why? 

Speed. Because Love is blind. Ibid., ii, 1 

Though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am 
one that am nourished by my victuals and would fain 
have meat. Ibid. 

Love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy. Ibid., ii, 4 

Love is a spirit all compact of fire, 
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. 

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 149, 150 

Prosperity 's the very bond of love, 

Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together 

Affliction alters. 

Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Love was love, and better than money; 
The slyer the theft, the sweeter the honey; 
And kissing was clover, all the world over, 
Wherever Cupid might wander. 

E. C. Stedman, The Diamond Wedding, st. 2 

If of herself she will not love, 
Nothing can make her : 
The Devil take her ! Sir John Suckling. Song: 

Why So Pale and Wan, st. 3 

Wheresoe'er I am, below, or else above you, 
Wheresoe'er you are, my heart shall truly love you. 

J. Sylvester, Wheresoe'er I Am 

Open the door of thy heart, 

And open thy chamber door, 
And my kisses shall teach thy lips 
The love that shall fade no more 
Till the sun grows cold, 
And the stars are old, 
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. 

Bayard Taylor, Bedouin Song, st. 3 



Love 241 

They sang of love, and not of fame; 

Forgot was Britain's glory: 
Each heart recalled a different name, 

But all sang ' Annie Laurie." 

Bayard Taylor, The Song of the Camp, st. 5 

I cannot understand: I love. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xcvii, st. 9 

Love, art thou sweet ? then bitter death must be : 
Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. 
O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. 

Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine, lines 1003-1005 

In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's 

breast ; 
In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another 

crest ; 

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove ; 
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to 
thought of love. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 17-20 

Love took up the glass of Time, and turned it in his 

glowing hands; 
Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. 

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords 

with might; 
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music 

out of sight. Ibid., lines 31-34 

In love, if love be love, if love be ours, 
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: 
Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, lines 385-387 

Luvv? What's luvv? thou can luw thy lass an' 'er 

munny too, 1 
Maakin' 'em goa. togither, as they've good right to do. 
Could'n I luvv thy muther by cause o' 'er munny laaid 

by? 
Na'ay — fur I luwed 'er a vast sight moor fur it : reason 

why. Tennyson, Northern Farmer, New Style, st. 9 

We talked of love as coolly as we talked of nebulae, 
And thought no more of being one than we did of being 
three. W. B. Terrett, Platonic 

!And play for love and money too. — -Butler, Hudibras, III, i, line 1008 



242 Love — Lovers 

Thou who hast faith in the Christ above, 
Shall the Koran teach thee the law of love? 

Christian ! — open thy heart and door, 
Cry east and west to the wandering poor: 
"Whoever thou art whose need is great, 
In the name of Christ, the Compassionate 
And Merciful One, for thee I wait! " 

Elizabeth H. Whittier, Charity, st. 2 

A love that makes heaven or hell for a man. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Duet, st. 5 

Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe, 
Needs friendship's solid mason-work below. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Upon the Sand, st. 2 

Loved. — I only know we loved in vain — 

1 only feel — Farewell ! — Farewell ! 

Byron, Farewell, st. 2 

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 1 
Marlowe, Hero and Leander, I, line 176; Shake- 
speare, As You Like It, iii, 5 

One that loved not wisely but too well. 

Shakespeare, Othello, v, 2 

'T is better to have loved and lost 
Than never to have loved at all. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii, st. 4; lxxxv, st. 1 

Lover. — When Psyche's friend becomes her lover, 
How sweetly these conditions blend! 
But oh, what anguish to discover 

Her lover has become — her friend! — Mary Ainge 
De Vere ("Madeline Bridges"), Friend and Lover 

As true a lover 
As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 4 

The lover, 
Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Ibid., 7 

Lovers. — Sing the lovers' litany: — 
"Love like ours can never die! " 

Kipling, The Lovers' Litany 

1 None ever loved but at first sight they loved. 

Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria 

No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no 

sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another 

the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in 

these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 2 



Lovers — Loyalty 243 

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see 

The pretty follies that themselves commit. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 6 

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer -Night's Dream, v, i 

Loves. — God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures 
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, 
One to show a woman when he loves her! 

R. Browning, One Word More, xvii 

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't 

marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that 

he was the best person she could by any possibility marry. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, x 

Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er 
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves! 

Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

I think there is not half a kiss to choose 
Who loves another best. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Lovest. — No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Loving. — Women are apt to love the man who they think 
has the largest capacity of loving. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, vii 

Loving is a painful thrill, 
And not to love more painful still; 
But oh, it is the worst of pain, 
To love and not be loved again! 

T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon, xxix 

So loving to my mother 
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 
Visit her face too roughly. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

When you shall see her, tell her that I died 
Blessing her, praying for her, loving her ; 
Save for the bar between us, loving her 
As when she laid her head beside my own. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, lines 874-877 

Loyalty. I will follow thee, 

To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 3 



244 Luck — Mad 

Luck. There 's nae luck about the house, 

There's nae luck at a'. 
There 's little pleasure in the house 
When our gudeman's awa'. 

W. J. Mickle, The Sailor's Wife 

No ill luck stirring but what lights on my shoulders. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, i 

As good luck would have it. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 5 

Wheresoe'er thou move, good luck 
Shall fling her old shoe after. Tennyson, Will 

Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue, lines 215, 216 

Lucky. 'T is lucky for the boats ! Our eyes 

Were drawn to him as either fain would say, 
What! do they send the psalm up in the spire 
And pray because 'tis lucky for the boats? 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 

Lying.- — The Lord forgi'e me for lying! 

Burns, Last May a Braw Wooer, st. 2 

'Tis as easy as lying. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 4 

Lyre. — Proud, mad, but not defiant, 
He touched at heaven and hell. 
Fate found a rare soul pliant 
And rung her changes well. 
Alternately his lyre, 
Stranded with strings of fire, 
Led earth's most happy choir, 
Or flashed with Israfel. 

J. H. Boner, Poe's Cottage at Fordham, st. 5 

Mad. — Mad from life's history, 
Glad to death's mystery, 
Swift to be hurled — 
Anywhere, anywhere, 
Out of the world! Hood, The Bridge of Sighs 

I am not mad, but soon shall be. 

Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Maniac, st. 7 

1 How subject we old men are to this vice of lying. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 



Mad — Magnet 245 

The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most oilers wrong. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, line 151 

I am but mad north -northwest : when the wind is 
southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Hamlet. How came he mad? 



First Clown. Faith, e'en with losing his wits. 

Ibid., v, 1 

Madmen. — For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; 
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. — Pope, 

Imitations of Horace, I, Epistle vi, lines 26, 27 

Madness. — His madness was not of the head, but heart. 

Byron, Lara, Canto i, st. 18 

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 1 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 163, 164 

Though this be madness, yet there's method in 't. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Magazine. — A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, 
A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, 
Condemned to drudge the meanest of the mean, 
And furnish falsehoods for a magazine. — Byron, 

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, lines 975-978 

Magistrate. After much debate, 

The man prevailed above the magistrate. 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, lines 462, 463 

Magnet. — Long lay the ocean paths from man concealed ; 
Light came from heaven, — the magnet was revealed, 
A surer star to guide the seaman's eye 
Than the pale glory of the northern sky; 
Alike ordain'd to shine by night and day, 
Through calm and tempest, with unsetting ray; 
Where'er the mountains rise, the billows roll, 
Still with strong impulse turning to the pole 
True as the sun is to the morning true, 
Though light as film, and trembling as the dew. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, i, st. 2 

1 What thin partitions sense from thought divide! 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, line 226 



246 Maid — Maiden 

Maid. — "Where are you going, my pretty maid? " 
"I am going a-milking, sir," she said. 
"May I go with you, my pretty maid? " 
"You're kindly welcome, sir," she said. 
"What is your father, my pretty maid? " 
"My father's a farmer, sir," she said. 
"What is your fortune, my pretty maid? " 
"My face is my fortune, sir," she said. 
"Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid? " 
"Nobody asked you, sir," she said. 

Anonymous, Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid? 

Neither maid, widow, nor wife. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, v 

Here's to the maid with a bosom of show; x 
Now to her that 's as brown as a berry ; 

Here 's to the wife with a face full of woe ; 
And now to the damsel that 's merry ! 

Sheridan, The School for Scandal, iii, 3 

Maiden. — Maiden! with the meek, brown eyes, 
In whose orbs a shadow lies 
Like the dusk in evening skies! 

Standing, with reluctant feet, 
Where the brook and river meet, 
Womanhood and childhood fleet ! 

Longfellow, Maidenhood, st. 1, 3 

This maiden she lived with no other thought 
Than to love and be loved by me. 

Poe, Annabel Lee, st. 1 

"Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant 
Aidenn, 
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name 

Lenore — 
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name 
Lenore." 

Quoth the raven "Nevermore!" 

Poe, The Raven, st. 1 

Nor would I break for your sweet sake 

A heart that dotes on truer charms. 
A simple maiden in her flower 

Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. 

Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere, st. 2 

1 Here 's to the girl with a voice sweet and low, 
The eye all of fire and the bosom of snow. 

J. K. Paulding, The Old Man's Carousal, st. 2 



Main — Mammon 247 

Main. — Strong and free, strong and free; 

The floodgates are open, away to the sea. 
Free and strong, free and strong, 
Cleansing my streams as I hurry along 
To the golden sands, and the leaping bar, 
And the taintless tide that awaits me afar, 
As I lose myself in the infinite main, 
Like a soul that has sinned and is pardoned again. 
Undefiled, for the undefiled; 
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child. 

Kingsley, Songs from the Water Babies, I, st. 3 

Majority. — One man with God is a majority. 

Wendell Phillips, Speech at Brooklyn, 

November 1, 1859 

Maker. — Who adores the Maker needs must love his work. 
Buonarotti, Michael Angelo (trans, by J. E. 

Taylor), If It Be True That Any Beauteous Thing 

Makes. — This movement makes or mars me. 1 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, IV, 121 

Malady. Where the greater malady is fixed, 

The lesser is scarce felt. 

Shakespeare, King Tear, iii, 4 

Malice. It must appear 

That malice bears down truth. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Malthus. — I want to read, but really can't get on — 

Let the four twins, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, 
Go — to their nursery — go — I never can 
Enjoy my Malthus among such a clan. 

Hood, Ode to Mr. Malthus 

Mammon. — Behold yon servitor of God and Mammon, 
Who, binding up his Bible with his ledger, 
Blends Gospel texts with trading gammon, 
A black-leg saint, a spiritual hedger, 
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak, 
Against the wicked remnant of the week, 
A saving bet against his sinful bias — 
"Rogue that I am," he whispers to himself, 
"I lie — I cheat — do any thing for pelf, 
But who on earth can say I am not pious? " 



ay l ; 
~)de to 



Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 18 



J This is the night 
That either makes me or fordoes me quite. — Shakespeare, Othello, v, 1 



248 Mammon — Man 

Who see pale Mammon pine amidst his store, 
Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; 
This year a reservoir to keep and spare ; 
The next, a fountain spouting through his heir, 
In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, 
And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 1 71-176 

Man. — Man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be 
not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble 
creature. 1 Bacon, Essay XVI: Of Atheism 

Let each man think himself an act of God, 
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; 
And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, 
To show the most of Heaven he hath in him. 2 

P. J. Bailey, Proem, lines 163-167 

Never an age, when God has need of him, 

Shall want its Man, predestined by that need, 
To pour his life in fiery word or deed, — 

The strong Archangel of the Elohim ! 

G. S. Burleigh, A Prayer for Life 

A man's a man for a' that! 3 

Burns, Is There for Honest Poverty 

J Yon brawny fool, 
Who swaggers, swears, and a' that, 
And thinks because his strong right arm 

Might fell an ox and a' that, 
That he 's as noble, man for man, 

As Duke or Lord and a' that, 
Is but an animal at best, 
And not a man for a' that. 

Charles Mackay, A Man's a Man for A' That, st. 3 

2 For a' that and a' that, 

'Tis soul and heart and a' that 
That makes the king a gentleman, 
And not his crown and a' that. 
And whether he be rich or poor, 

The best is he for a' that 
Who stands erect in self-respect, 
And acts the man for a' that. 

Charles Mackay, A Man's a Man for A That, st. 6 

3 ' 'A man's a man," says Robert Burns, 
"For a' that, and a' that;" 
But though the song be clear and strong, 

It lacks a note for a' that. 
The lout who 'd shirk his daily work, 

Yet claim his wage and a' that, 
Or beg when he might earn his bread, 
Is not a man for a' that. 

Charles Mackay, A Man's a Man for A' That, st. 1 



Man 249 

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 

The man 's the gowd for a' that. 1 Ibid., st. 1 

A man may drink and no be drunk ; 

A man may fight and no be slain ; 
A man may kiss a bonny lass, 

And aye be welcome back again. 

Burns, There Was a Lass, st. 3 

Every man is as God hath made him, and sometimes a 
great deal worse. — Cervantes, Don Quixote (Tudor 

translation, ed. Henley), II, iv 

Man wants but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long. 2 

Goldsmith, The Hermit, st. 8 

He 's true to God who 's true to man. 

Lowell, On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near 

Washington, st. 7 
He was six foot o' man, A 1, 

Clear grit an' human natur' ; 

None couldn't quicker pitch a ton 

Nor dror a furrer straighter. 

Lowell, The Courtin', st. 8 

Man is a moral, accountable being. 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, line 237 

Man is an animal unfledged, 

A monkey with his tail abridged ; 

His body flexible and limber, 
And headed with a knob of timber ; 
A being frantic and unquiet, 
And very fond of beef and riot. 

His own best friend, and, you must know, 
His own worst enemy by being so! 

James Montgomery, Definition of Man 

l It comes to this, dear Robert Burns, 
The truth is old and a' that, 
"The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 

The man's the gowd for a' that." 
And though you 'd put the self-same mark 

On copper, brass, and a' that, 

The lie is gross, the cheat is plain, 

And will not pass for a' that. 

Charles Mackay, A Man's a Man for A' That, st. 5 
2 Man wants but little drink below, 

But wants that little strong. — Holmes, A Song of Other Days, st. 2 
Man wants but little; nor that little, long. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, line 119 



250 Man 

Man — Continued 

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; 
The proper study of mankind 1 is man. 2 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 1, 2 

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, 
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground : 
Another race the following spring supplies ; 
They fall successive, and successive rise. 

Pope, Iliad, VI, lines 181-184 

A man is master of his liberty. 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, ii, 1 

He was a man, 3 take him for all in all, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

An old man is twice a child. Ibid., ii, 2 

I could have better spared a better man. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 4 

1 Virtue only makes our bliss below; 
And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 397, 398 

2 According to the first edition: "The only science of mankind is man." 

3 He 's a rare man, 
Our parson; half a head above us all. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 
God's plan 
And measure of a stalwart man, 
Limbed like the old heroic breeds, 
Who stands self-poised on manhood's solid earth, 
Not forced to frame excuses for his birth, 
Fed from within with all the strength he needs. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 5 

See, what a grace was seated on this brow; 

Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; 

An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; 

A station like the herald Mercury 

New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; 

A combination and a form indeed, 

Where every god did seem to set his seal, 

To give the world assurance of a man. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man 

That ever lived in the tide of times. — Shakespeare, Julius Ceesar, iii, 1 

His life was gentle, and the elements 

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 

And say to all the world, "This was a man!" Ibid., v, 5 

He is a proper man's picture. — Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 



Man — Mandalay 251 

Let the end try the man. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 2 

I am a very foolish fond old man. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 7 

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats: 

If it be man's work, I '11 [I will] do it. Ibid., v, 3 

Lady Macbeth. Are you a man? 

Macbeth. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that 
Which might appal the devil. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Man, proud man, 
Dressed in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, 
His glassy essence, like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven 
As make the angels weep. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet 
and hose and leaves off his wit ! 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or 
extremely evil. Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, I 

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, 
How complicate, how wonderful is man. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 68, 69 

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; 

Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; 

At fifty, chides his infamous delay, 

Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; 

In all the magnanimity of thought 

Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. 

Ibid., lines 417-422 

Manacle. For my sake wear this; 

It is a manacle of love. — Shakespeare, Cymbeline, i, 1 [2] 

Mandalay. — By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward 
to the sea, 
There 's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' 
me; 



252 Mandalay — Marbles 

For the wind is in the palm-trees, and. the temple-bells 

they say: 
' ' Come you back, you British soldier ; come you back to 

Mandalay ! ". 

On the road to Mandalay, 
Where the flyin' fishes play, 
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost 
the Bay! Kipling, Mandalay 

Manhood. — There was a manhood in his look, 
That murder could not kill! 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 16 

Mankind. — The common curse of mankind, folly and ignor- 
ance. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ii, 3 

Manners. — Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; 
In wit, a man; simplicity, a child. 

Pope, Epitaph on Gay, lines 1, 2 

Ring in the nobler modes of life, 
With sweeter manners, purer laws. 1 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 4 

Many. — The mutable, rank-scented many. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iii, 1 

Maps. — So geographers, in Afric maps, 
With savage pictures fill their gaps, 
And o'er unhabitable downs 
Place elephants for want of towns. 

Swift, On Poetry, a Rhapsody, lines 177-180 

Marble. — Water is soft, and marble hard; and yet 
We see soft water through hard marble eat. 2 

Dryden, Ovid's Art of Love, I, lines 542, 543 

Marbles. — The mossy marbles rest 
On the lips that he has pressed 

In their bloom, 
And the names he loved to hear 
Have been carved for many a year 

On the tomb. Holmes, The Last Leaf, st. 4 

*In the light of fuller day, 
Of purer science, holier laws. 

Kingsley, On the Death of a Certain Journal, st. 5 
2 Much rain wears the marble. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iii, 2 
Stones with drops of rain are washed away. 

Dryden, Lucretius, IV, line 298 



Mare — Married 253 

Mare. — When the grey mare 's the better horse. 1 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, line 698 

The grey mare 
Is ill to live with, when her whinny shrills 
From tile to scullery. 

Tennyson, The Princess, v, lines 441-443 

Mariner. — I fear thee, ancient Mariner! 
I fear thy skinny hand! 
And thou art long, and lank, and brown, 
As is the ribbed sea-sand. 

S. T. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 224-227 

Marriage. — Is not marriage an open question, when it is 
alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as 
are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are 
out wish to get in? 2 

R. W. Emerson, Representative Men: Montaigne 

Pleasant the snaffle of courtship, improving the manners 

and carriage; 
But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible 

thorn-bit of marriage. 

Kipling, Certain Maxims of Hafiz, st. 1 1 

Such a mad marriage never was before. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2 

Every kiss 
Has a price for its bliss, 
In the modern code of marriage ; 
And the compact sweet 
Is not complete, 

Till the high contracting parties meet 
Before the altar of Mammon. 

E. C. Stedman, The Diamond Wedding, st. 4 

Marriages. — Marriages are made in Heaven. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, line 188 

Married. She 

Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 59 

J The grey mare is, I'm sure, the better horse. 

Anonymous, The Eggs and the Horses, st. 16 

2 Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been 
To public feasts, where meet a public rout, 
Where they that are without would fain go in, 
And they that are within would fain go out. 

Sir J. Davies, Contention Betwixt a Wife, etc. 



254 Married— Marry 

A young man married is a man that 's marred. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, ii, 3 

Benedick, the married man. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, i, 1; v, 1, 4 

If he be married, 
My grave is like to be my wedding-bed. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 5 

She 's not well married that lives married long; 
But she 's best married that dies married young. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 5 

I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went 
to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 4 

Marry. — I 'm o 'er young to marry yet ; 
I 'm o 'er young — 't wad be a sin 
To tak' me frae my mammy yet. 

Burns, I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet 

Choose not alone a proper mate, 
But proper time to marry. 

Cowper, Pairing-Time Anticipated : Moral 

We '11 drink our can, we '11 eat our cake, 

There 's beer in the barrel, there 's bread in the bake, 

The world may sleep, the world may wake, 

But I shall milk and marry. 

S. Dobell, The Milkmaid's Song 

They that marry ancient people, merely in expecta- 
tion to bury them, hang themselves, in hope that one 
will come and cut the halter. 

Thomas Fuller, The Holy and Profane State: Of 

Marriage 
Then be not coy, but use your time, 

And while ye may, go marry; 
For having lost but once your prime, 

You may forever tarry. — Herrick, To the Virgins, st. 4 

A person of genius should marry a person of character. 
Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, xii 

There sits a bird on every tree, 
And courts his love, as I do thee; 
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho! 
Young maids must marry. 

Kingsley, Sing Heigh-Ho, st. 1 



Marry —Matrimony 2 5 5 

The men that women marry, 
And why they marry them, will always be 
A marvel and a mystery to the world. 

Longfellow, Michael Angelo, I, vi 

If thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men 
know well enough what monsters you make of them. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, i 

That 's as much as to say, they are fools that marry. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 3 

This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with 
fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may 
marry whom she likes. 1 Thackeray, Vanity Fair, iv 

Martyr. Ever the blind world 

Knows not its angels of deliverance 
Till they stand glorified 'twixt earth and heaven. 
It stones the martyr; then, with praying hands, 
Sees the God mount his chariot of fire, 
And calls sweet names, and worships what it spurned. 

Gerald Massey, Hood, lines 1-6 

Maryland. — The despot's heel is on thy shore, 
Maryland ! 
His torch is at thy temple door, 
Maryland! 

J. R. Randall, My Maryland, st. 1 

Master. — I am meat for your master. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 4 

Such mistris, such Nan, 
Such maister, such man. 

Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good 

Husbandry: April's Abstract, st. 22 

Masters. — We cannot all be masters. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

Matrimony. — I asked of Echo, t' other day 

(Whose words are few and often funny), 
What to a novice she could say 

Of courtship, love, and matrimony. 

Quoth Echo, plainly, — " Matter-o' -money ! " 

J. G. Saxe, Echo, st. 1 

1 1 should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, 
that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. 
Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast Table, vii 
There swims no goose so grey, but soon or late, 
She finds some honest gander for her mate. 

Pope, The Wife of Bath, lines 98, 99 



256 Matter — Measures 

Matter. — When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter," 
And proved it — 't was no matter what he said. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xi, st. 1 

Though the forms decay, 
Eternal matter never wears away. 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, lines 2306, 2307 

May. — As it fell upon a day, 

In the merry month of May, 

R. Barnfield, An Ode, lines 1-2 

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother 

dear; 
To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New 

Year; 
Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest 

day; 
For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, 

I 'm to be Queen o' the May. 

Tennyson, The May Queen, st. 1 

Mayor. Our mayor 's a noddy ; 

And as for our corporation — shocking. 

R. Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, st. 3 

Meadows. — Meadows trim, with daisies pied. 

Milton, L' Allegro, line 75 

Meals. — Man is a carnivorous production, 

And must have meals, at least one meal a day; 
He cannot live like woodcocks, upon suction, 
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 67 

Meaning. — A very mean meaning. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

Meanness. — Like a peach thet 's got the yellers, 
With the meanness bustin' out. 

Lowell, The Biglow Papers, I, i, st. 14 

Meant. — The mind that never meant amiss. 

Sir Thomas Wyat, A Supplication, st. 4 

Measures. — Measures, not men, 1 have always been my mark. 
Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, ii 

s The cant of "not men, but measures." 

Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents 



Meat — Melancholy 257 

Meat. — Some ha'e meat and canna eat, 
And some wad eat that want it ; 
But we ha'e meat and we can eat, 

And saethe Lord be thankit. — Burns, The Selkirk Grace 

There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll browse on that. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 6 

Meditation. — In maiden meditation, fancy free. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, ii, i 

Meet. — In our course through life we shall meet the people 
who are coming to meet us from many strange places 
and by many strange roads; and what it is set to us to 
do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us, will all 
be done. Dickens, Little Dorrit, I, ii 

First Witch. When shall we three meet again, 
In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 

Second Witch. When the hurlyburly's done; 
When the battle 's lost and won. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, i 

Meeting. — Here 's our next joyous meeting — and oh when 
we meet, 
May our wine be as bright, and our union as sweet. 

T. Moore, Hip, Hip, Hurra! st. 5 

Melancholy. — The melancholy days are come, the saddest of 
the year, 
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown 
and sere. Bryant, The Death of the Flowers, st. 1 

There is a kindly mood of melancholy 

That wings the soul and points her to the skies. 1 

J. Dyer, The Ruins of Rome 

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, 

A youth to fortune and to fame unknown; 

Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, 

And melancholy marked him for her own. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church- 
yard, st. 31 
There 's not a string attuned to mirth, 
But has its chord in melancholy. 2 

Hood, Ode to Melancholy 

1 Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. 

John Fletcher, Melancholy 

2 1 can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 5 



258 Melancholy — Memory 

Hence, loathed Melancholy! 1 Milton, L' Allegro, line 1 

I am as melancholy as a gib cat or a lugged bear. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 2 

We are high-proof melancholy. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Memories. — Long, long be my heart with such memories 
filled! 
Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — ■ 
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, 
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. 

T. Moore, Farewell! — But Whenever You 

Welcome the Hour, st. 3 

Memory. — For my name and memory, I leave it to men's 
charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next 
ages. Bacon, His Last Will 

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, 
When memory plays an old tune on the heart ! 

Eliza Cook, Old Dobbin, st. 16 

Oft in the stilly night, 

Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, 
Fond Memory brings the light 
Of other days around me ; 
The smiles, the tears, 
Of boyhood's years, 
The words of love then spoken ; 
The eyes that shone, 
Now dimmed and gone, 
The cheerful hearts now broken! 

T. Moore, Oft in the Stilly Night, st. 1 

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his 
life half a year. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the 
womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of 
occasion. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 2 

Memory, the warder of the brain. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Hope links her to the future, — but the link 
That binds her to the past is memory. 

Amelia B. Welby, The Old Maid 

1 Moping melancholy. Milton, Paradise Lost, XI, line 485 

Sable-coloured melancholy. Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, i, 1 



Men 259 



Men r — God give us men! A time like this demands 

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; 
Men whom the lust of office does not kill; 

Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; 
Men who possess opinions and a will; 

Men who have honour, — men who will not lie; 
Men who can stand before a demagogue, 
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking ! 

J. G. Holland, Wanted 

God be thanked — whate 'er comes after, I have lived 
and toiled with men! Kipling, The Galley Slave 

Our country claims our fealty; we grant it so, but then 

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. 

Lowell, On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near 

Washington, st. 6 

I grew up in the field, and a man like me troubles 
himself little about a million men. 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, IV, 46 

If we must fall, let us fall like men. 

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Last Speech 

in Parliament, April 7 , 1778 

The fate of all extremes is such, 
Men may be read, as well as books, too much. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle i, lines 9, 10 

1 loathe all men; such unromantic creatures! 
^ The coarsest tastes, and, ah! the coarsest features! 
Betty! — the salts! — I 'm sick with mere vexation, 
To hear them called the Lords of the Creation : 
They swear fierce oaths, they seldom say their prayers; 
And then, they shed no tears, — unfeeling bears. 

Praed, Prologue for The Honeymoon, st. 2 

There live not three good men unhanged in England; 
and one of them is fat and grows old. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Men of few words are the best men. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 2 

Oh, what men dare do! what men may do! what men 
daily do, not knowing what they do ! 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iv, 1 

/ The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 

Sir H. Taylor, Philip van Artevelde, I, i, 5 

For men at most differ as heaven and earth, 
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, lines 812, 813 



260 Mended — Merit 

Mended. — And I oft have heard defended 
Little said is soonest mended. 1 

G. Wither, The Shepherd's Hunting 

I Mercy. — Teach me to feel another's woe, 
To hide the fault I see; 
That mercy I to others show, 
That mercy show to me. 2 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 10 

There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a 
male tiger. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, v, 4 

Whereto serves mercy 
But to confront the visage of offence? 
And what 's in prayer but this twofold force, 
To be forestalled ere we come to fall, 
Or pardoned being down? — Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 

The gates of mercy shall be all shut up. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 3 

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 
Become them with one half so good a grace 
As mercy does. 3 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

Merit. — Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, v, line 34 

1 You know the proverb, the less as is said, the sooner the chiney's mended. 

Hood, The China-Mender 

2 Teach 'me to love and to forgive, 

Exact my own defects to scan. Gray, Hymn to Adversity, st. 6 

How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none? 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

3 The quality of mercy is not strained, 

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 

Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; 

It blesseth him that gives and him that takes : 

'T is mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes 

The throned monarch better than his crown; 

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; 

But mercy is above this sceptred sway; . 

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 

It is an attribute to God himself; 

And earthly power doth then show likest God's 

When mercy seasons justice. 

In the course of justice, none of us 
Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; 
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 
The deeds of mercy. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 



Merits— Midnight 261 

Merits. — Would you ask for his merits? alas! he had none; 
What was good was spontaneous, his faults were his own. 
Goldsmith, Retaliation, st. 4 
Merriest. — Men are merriest when they are from home. 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, i, 2 

Merry. — I had rather have a fool to make me merry than 
experience to make me sad. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv, 1 
.'T is merry in hall when beards wag all. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 3; 
Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good, 

Husbandry: August Abstract 
As merry as the day is long. 2 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 1 
Though he be merry, yet withal he 's honest. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2 

Metaphysic. — He knew what 's what, 3 and that 's as high 
As metaphysic wit can fly. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 149, 150 

Method. — There is a method in man's wickedness, 
It grows up by degrees. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No 

King, v, 4 
Mice. — The best -laid schemes o' mice and men 
Gang aft a-gley [wrong]. 

Burns, To a Mouse, st. 7 
Mice and rats, and such small deer, 
Have been Tom's food for seven long year. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 4 

Midnight. — Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, 
weak and weary, 
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten 

lore — 
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a 

tapping 
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber 

door. 
'"T is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my cham- 
ber door — 

Only this and nothing more." 

Poe, The Raven, st. 1 

J He hangs up his fiddle behind the door. — Anonymous, Anecdotal Saying 
2 So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, 
I should be merry as the day is long.— Shakespeare, King John, iv, i 
He sees with larger, other eyes, 
Athwart all mysteries — 

He knows what's Swat. — G. T. Lanigan, A Threnody, st. 3 [On 

the Death of the Ahkoond of Swat] 



262 Midnight — Mind 

We have heard the chimes at midnight. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, v, 1 

Mildest. — He was the mildest -mannered man 
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto iii, st. 41 

Miles. — We must measure twenty miles to-day. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 4 

Milk. — The milk of human kindness. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 5 

Miller. — There was a jolly miller once, 
Lived on the river Dee ; 
He worked and sung from morn till night, 
No lark more blithe than he. 

Isaac Bickerstaff, Love in a Village, i, 2 

Mills. — Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind 
exceeding small; 
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness 
grinds he all. — Longfellow, Retribution, from the 

German of F. von Logau 
Mind. A heart 

Susceptible of pity, or a mind 
Cultured and capable of sober thought. 

Cowper, The Task: The Garden, lines 322-324 

My mind to me a kingdom is. 1 

Edward Dyer, My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, st. 1 

High walls and huge the body may confine, 

And iron gates obstruct the prisoner's gaze, 
And massive bolts may baffle his design, 

And vigilant keepers watch his devious ways; 
But scorns the immortal mind such base control : 

No chains can bind it and no cell enclose. 
Swifter than light it flies from pole to pole, 

And in a flash from earth to heaven it goes. 

W. L. Garrison, Sonnet, Written in Prison 

1 My mind to me a kingdom is, 

Such perfect joy therein I find, 
As far exceeds all earthly bliss 

That God and Nature hath assigned. 

Byrd, Psalmes, Sonnets, etc., 1588 
A mind content both crown and kingdom is. 

Robert Greene, Farewell to Follie, st. 2 



Mind — Minister 263 

At last he shut the ponderous tome, 

With a fast and fervent grasp 
He strained the dusky covers close, 

And fixed the brazen hasp: 
"Oh, God! could I so close my mind, 

And clasp it with a clasp! " 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 6 

The mind is its own place, and in itself 

Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 1 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 254, 255 

Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! 

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; 

The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 

The glass of fashion and the mould of form, 2 

The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

The mind shall banquet, though the body pine. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, i, 1 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain, 
And with some sweet oblivious antidote 
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which weighs upon the heart? 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 3 

Were I so tall to reach the pole, 

Or grasp the ocean with my span, 
I must be measured by my soul : 

The mind 's the standard of the man. 

Watts, Horce Lyricce, ii, False Greatness 

Mine. — An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 4 

What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, v 

'Tis mine, and I will have it. 3 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Minister. — The minister kissed the fiddler's wife, 
An' could na preach for thinkin' o 't. 

Burns, My Love She 's But a Lassie Yet, st. 2 

1 Cf. Hell. 

2 He was the mark and glass, copy and book, 

That fashioned others. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Pari II, ii, 3 

3 1 will be master of what is mine own. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2 



264 Minster — Misery 

Minster. — In the great minster transept, 
Where lights like glories fall, 
And the sweet choir sings and the organ rings 
Along the emblazoned wall. 1 

C. F. Alexander, Burial of Moses, st. 6 

The minster bell tolls out 
Above the city's rout 

And noise and humming; 
They ' ve hushed the minster bell : 
The organ 'gins to swell: 

She's coming, coming! 

Thackeray, At the Church Gate, st. 2 

Mirth. — The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. 

Burns, Tarn O' Shanter, st. 12 

Oh, mirth and innocence! Oh, milk and water! 
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days ! 

Byron, Beppo, st. 80 

Come, thou Goddess fair and free, 
In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne, 
And by men, heart-easing Mirth. 

Milton, L' Allegro, lines 11-13 

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2 

You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting 
With most admired disorder. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Let me play the fool: 
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, 
And let my liver rather heat with wine 
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. 
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? 
Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice 
By being peevish ? — Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 

Misery. — A great silent -moving misery puts a new stamp on 
us in an hour or a moment, — as sharp an impression as 
if it had taken half a lifetime to engrave it. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ii 

Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 1 

1 Beneath some ample hallowed dome 
The warrior's bones are laid, 
And blazoned on the stately tomb 
His martial deeds displayed. 

James Montgomery, Introduction to Verses on R. Reynolds 



Misfortune— Modest 265 

Misfortune. — As if Misfortune made the throne her seat, 
And none could be unhappy but the great. 

N. Rowe, The Fair Penitent, Prologue 

Misfortune, like a creditor severe, 
But rises in demand for her delay; 
She makes a scourge of past prosperity, 
To sting thee more, and double thy distress. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 318-321 

Misfortunes. — I am convinced that we have a degree of de- 
light, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and 
pains of others. 

Burke, Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, xiv 

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear 
another's misfortunes* perfectly like a Christian. 1 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects 

Misquote. — With just enough of learning to misquote. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, line 66 

Mistakes. — In short, year after year the same 
Absurd mistakes went on; 
And when I died, the neighbors came 
And buried brother John! 

H. S. Leigh, The Twins, st. 4 

Mistletoe.— The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, 
The holly branch shone on the old oak wall; 
And the baron's retainers were blithe and gay, 
And keeping their Christmas holiday. 

T. H. Bayly, The Mistletoe Bough, st. 1 

Mite. — Too small for any marketable shift, 

What purpose can there be for coins like these ? 
Hush, hush, good Sir! — Thus charitable thrift 
May give a mite to him who wants a cheese! 

Hood, Epigram on the New Half -Farthings 

Mites. — Two mites, two drops (yet all her house and land), 
Fall from a steady heart, though trembling hand : 
The other's wanton wealth foams high and brave, 
The other cast away, she only gave. 

Crashaw, Divine Epigrams: The Widow's Mites 

Modest. — On their own merits, modest men are dumb. 

Geo. Colman, Jr., The Heir-at-Law, Epilogue 

x The tame spectator of another's woe. 

Hoole, Demophoon (trans, from Metastasio), i, 3 fi] 



266 Modesty— Money 

Modesty. — Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 2 

Monarch. — I am monarch of all I survey, 
My right there is none to dispute. 

Cowper, Alexander Selkirk, st. 1 

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. 

Earl of Rochester, On the King 

Monarchy. — The trappings of a monarchy would set up an 
ordinary commonwealth. 

Samuel Johnson, Life of Milton 

Money. — Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. 
Bacon, Essay XV: Of Seditions and Troubles 

For what is worth in any thing 
But so much money as 'twill bring? 

Butler, Hudibras, II, i, lines 465, 466 

Fine young girls sittin', like shopkeepers behind their 
goods, waitin' and waitin' and waitin', 'n' no customers, 
— and the men lingerin' round and lookin* at the goods, 
like folks that want to be customers, but haven't got 
the money! — Holmes, Professor at the Br eakfast-T able, vii 

To bring such visionary scenes to pass, 

One thing was requisite, and that was — money! 

Money — the root of evil — dross and stuff! 
But oh ! how happy ought the rich to feel, 
Whose means enabled them to give enough 
To blanch an African from head to heel! 
How blessed — yea, thrice blessed — to subscribe 

Enough to scour a tribe ! 
While he whose fortune was at best a brittle one, 
Although he gave but pence, how sweet to know 
He helped to bleach a Hottentot's great toe, 

Or little one! Hood, A Black Job, st. 8, 9 

Get money; still get money, boy; 
No matter by what means. 1 

Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, ii, 3 

London's voice: "Get money, money still! 
And then let Virtue follow, if she will." 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, I, Epistle i, lines 79. 80 

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; 
If not, by any means get wealth and place. 

Ibid., lines 103, 104 



Money — Moon 267 

I can raise no money by vile means: 
By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, 
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 
By any indirection. — -Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

There shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on 
my score. — Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2 

If money go before, all ways do he open. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2 

I knawed a Quaaker feller as often 'as towd ma 
this: 
"Doant thou marry for munny, but go a wheer munny 
is!" Tennyson, Northern Farmer, New Style, st. 5 

The love of money is the root of all evil. 

1 Timothy vi, 10 

Money-making. — I was not made merely for money-making. 
Gerald Massey, A Song in the City 

Monk. — The solitary monk who shook the world. 

R. Montgomery, Luther, Man's Need and 

God's Supply, st. 4 
Monkey. The strain of man 's bred out 

Into baboon and monkey. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 1 

Monks. — The monks of Melrose made gude kail 
On Fridays when they fasted, 
Nor wanted they gude beef and ale, 
As long's their neighbours' lasted. 1 

Cited by F. T. Palgrave, Introduction to 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel 
Monument. When old Time shall lead him to his end, 

Goodness and he fill up one monument ! 2 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, ii, 1 

Moon. — I saw the new moon, late yestreen, 
Wi' the auld moon in her arm; 
And if we gang to sea, master, 
I fear we '11 come to harm. 3 

Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spens, st. 13 

1 Have drunk the monks of St. Bothan's ale, 

And driven the beeves of Lauderdale. — Scott, Marmion, Canto i, st. 19 

2 Go, build his monument : — and let it be 
Firm as the land, but open as the sea. 

Low in his grave the strong foundations lie, 

Yet be the dome expansive as the sky, 

On crystal pillars resting from above, 

Its sole supporters — works of faith and love. 

James Montgomery, A Good Man's Monument, st. 7 

3 There are many versions of this ballad. 



268 Moon— Moonlight 

The wandering moon, 1 
Riding near her highest noon, 
Like one that has been led astray 
Through the heaven's wide pathless way, 
And oft, as if her head she bowed, 
Stooping through a fleecy cloud. 

Milton, II Penseroso, lines 67-72 

What may this mean, 
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel 
Revisit 'st thus the glimpses of the moon, 
Making night hideous ; and we fools of nature 
So horridly to shake our disposition 
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls? 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 4 

The moon, like to a silver bow 
New-bent in heaven. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, i, 1 

Romeo. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops, — 

Juliet. Oh, swear not by the moon, the inconstant 
moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Jidiet, ii, 2 

That orbed maiden with white fire laden, 

Whom mortals call the moon. Shelley, The Cloud 

Moonlight. — As moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto 
wine. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 52 

'The moon is at her full, and, riding high, 

Floods the calm fields with light. Bryant, The Tides, st. 1 

Now glowed the firmament 
With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led 
The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, 
Rising in cloudy majesty, at length, 
Apparent queen, unveiled her peerless light, 
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 604-609 

How beautiful is night! 
A dewy freshness fills the silent air, 
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, 

Breaks the serene of heaven: _ 
In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine 

Rolls through the dark blue depths.* 

Beneath her steady ray 

The desert-circle spreads, 
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. 

How beautiful is night! Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, I, st. i 



* Heaven's ebon vault, 
Studded with stars unutterably bright, 
Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls. 

Shelley, Queen Mab, iv 



Moor — Mortality 269 

Moor. — Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, 

And batten on this moor? — Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Moral. — The moral market had the usual chills 
Of virtue suffering from protested bills. 

Holmes, The Banker's Dinner, st. 8 

The temple of my youth 
Was strong in moral purpose ; once I felt 
The glory of philosophy, and knelt 

In the pure shrine of truth. 

Praed, A Retrospect, st. 4 

Morals. Where faith, law, morals, all began, 

All end, in love of God, and love of Man. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 339, 340 

Morn. — The sun had long since, in the lap 
Of Thetis, taken out his nap, 
And, like a lobster boiled, the morn 
From black to red began to turn. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, ii, lines 29-32 

The breezy call of incense -breathing morn. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 6 

Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward [eastern] hill. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 1 

Morning. — The night is past, and shines the sun 
As if that morn were a jocund one. 
Lightly and brightly breaks away 
The morning from her mantle of grey, 
And the noon will look on a sultry day. 

Byron, Siege of Corinth, st. 22 

But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Mortal. — Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
Like a swift -fleeting meteor, a fast -flying cloud, 
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave. 

William Knox, Oh, Why Should the Spirit, etc., st. 1 

All men think all men mortal but themselves. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, line 424 

Mortality. — To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for 
the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to 
the soul. 

Thomas Fuller, The Holy and the Profane State: 

The Court Lady 



270 Mortality — Mountain 

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

From this instant, 
There 's nothing serious in mortality : . . . 
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 1 
Is left this vault to brag of. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 3 

Motes. — The gay motes that people the sunbeams. 

Milton, II Penseroso, line 8 

Mother. — Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. 2 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure, ii, 2 

The mother, wi' her needle an' her shears, 

Gars [makes] auld claes look amaist as weel 's the new. 

Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 5 

A mother is a mother still, 
The holiest thing alive. 

S. T. Coleridge, The Three Graves, III, st. 10 

Where yet was ever found a mother 
Who 'd give her booby for another? 

Gay, The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy, lines 33, 34 

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive 
Against thy mother aught : leave her to heaven, 
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge 
To prick and sting her. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Mother [in Law]. — When Susan came to live with me, 
Her mother came to live with her! 

Hood, The Bachelor's Dream, st. 3 

Mothers. — Dishonour not your mothers. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 1 

Moths. — ■ Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, 

And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 9 

Mount. — Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high; 
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, v, 5 

Mountain. — The labouring mountain must bring forth a 
mouse. Dryden, Art of Poetry, line 701 

1 The wine of life is on the lees. — Scott, Marmion, Introduction to Canto i 
2 Strive still to be a man before your mother. 

Cowper, Motto of No. Ill, Connoisseur 



Mounting — Multitude 271 

Mounting. — And there was mounting in hot haste : the steed, 
The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, 
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, 
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 25 

Mourn. — They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness. 

R. Baron, Mirza 
Man was made to mourn. 

Burns, Man Was Made to Mourn, st. 3 

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 

Is the next way to draw new [more] mischief on. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Mourning. — Let us bury the Great Duke 

To the noise of the mourning of a mighty nation; 
Mourning when their leaders fall, 
Warriors carry the warrior's pall, 
And sorrow darkens hamlet and hall. 

Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington, st. 1 
Mouse. — The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole, 
Can never be a mouse of any soul. 1 

Pope, The Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, lines 298, 299 

I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly: 

I trod upon a worm against my will, 

But I wept for it. Shakespeare, Pericles, iv, 1 

Mouth. — Peace! I will stop your mouth [kissing her]. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 4 

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat. 
Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good 

Husbandry 

Muddle. — 'Tis a' a muddle. Dickens, Hard Times, II, xi 

Multitude. — A swinish multitude. 

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France 

The multitude is always in the wrong. 

Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated 

Verse, line 184 
The many-headed multitude. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii, 3 

Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this 
multitude? — Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 8 

1 1 holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek, 
That hath butoon hole fortosterteto. — Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: 

The Wife of Bath's Prologue, lines 572, 573 



272 Murder — Music 

Murder. Methought, last night, I wrought 

A murder, in a dream. 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 13 

Ninepunce a day fer killin' folks comes kind o' low fer 
murder. Lowell, The Biglow Papers, I, ii, line 10 

One murder made a villain, 
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged 
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. 1 

Porteous, Death, lines 154-156 

Murder most foul, as in the best it is; 

But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Oh, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; 

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, 

A brother's murder! Ibid., iii, 3 

Murder cannot be hid long. 2 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 2 

Murders. Murders disguised by philosophic name. 3 

Scott, Harold the Dauntless, Introduction, st. 3 

Muse. — Oh for a Muse of fire, that would ascend 
The brightest heaven of invention ! 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, Prologue 

Music. — When Music, heavenly maid, was young. 

William Collins, The Passions, st. 1 

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, 
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. 

Congreve, Mourning Bride, i, 1 

The music of the spheres. 4 
♦ Dryden, Elegy on Mrs. Killigrew, line 49; Pope, 

Essay on Man, Epistle i, line 202 

1 One to destroy is murder, by the law, 
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; 
To murder thousands takes a specious name, — 
War's glorious art, — and gives immortal fame. 

Young, Love of Fame, Satire vii, lines 55-58 
2 Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. 

Chaucer, The Nonnes Preestes Tale, line 232 
Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 

With most miraculous organ. Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

3 Vivisection et id genus omne. 
4 There's music in the sighing of a reed; 
There 's music in the gushing of a rill ; 
There 's music in all things, if men had ears : 
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xv, st. 5 



Music — Nails 273 

Music is Love in search of a word. 

Lanier, The Symphony, line 368 

Music, moody food 
Of us that trade in love. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

Let music sound while he doth make his choice; 
Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, 
Fading in music. 1 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 2 Ibid., v 

The general so likes your music, that he desires you, 
for love's sake, to make no more noise with it. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 1 

If music be the food of love, play on: 

Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, 

The appetite may sicken, and so die. 

That strain again ! it had a dying fall : 

Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound [south 3 ] 

That breathes upon a bank of violets, 

Stealing and giving odour. 

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, i, 1 

Till at the last she set herself to man, 
Like perfect music unto noble words. 

Tennyson, The Princess, vii, lines 269, 270 

Must. — What must be shall be. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 1 

Nails. — "When you see Ned Cuttle bite his nails, . . . then 
you may know that Ned Cuttle's aground." 

Dickens, Dombey and Son, xv 

1 So, on Masander's banks, when death is nigh, 
The mournful swan sings her own elegy. 

Dryden, Dido to JEneas, lines i, 2 
'Tis strange that death should sing. 

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, 

Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, 

And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings 

His soul and body to their lasting rest. — Shakespeare, King John, v, 7 
I will play the swan, 

And die in music. Shakespeare, Othello, v, 2 

The wild swan's death-hymn. Tennyson, The Dying Swan, st. 3 

2 The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; 

The motions of his spirit are dull as night 

And his affections dark as Erebus : 

Let no such man be trusted. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, v 

3 A change suggested by Pope. 



274 Naked— Name 

Naked. — The naked every day he clad — 
When he put on his clothes. 

Goldsmith, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 3 

Name. — A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, 
Fighting, devotion, dust — perhaps a name. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 4 

Oh! Amos Cottle! — Phoebus! what a name 
To fill the speaking-trump of future fame. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 

lines 398, 399 1 

Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 
The power of grace, the magic of a name. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii, lines 5, 6 

And lastly, when summoned to drink to my flame, 
Let her guess why I never once mention her name, 
Though herself and the woman I love are the same. 2 

Cowper, Symptoms of Love, st. 6 

He left the name at which the world grew pale, 
To point a moral, or adorn a tale. — Samuel John- 
son, The Vanity of Human Wishes, lines 221, 222 

Here lies one whose name was writ in water. 3 

Keats, Epitaph, by Himself 

Oh ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, 
Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid. 



And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, 
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. 

T. Moore, Oh! Breathe Not His Name, st. 



■Some versions vary in the number of lines. 

2 And oft in crowds I might rejoice 

To hear thy uttered name, 
Though haply from an unknown voice 

The welcome echo came: 
How coldly would I shape reply, 
With lingering lip, and listless eye, 

That none might doubt or blame, 
Or guess that idle theme could be 

A mine of afterthought to me! Praed, A Farewell, st. 5 

They shall never know from me, 

On any one condition, 
"Whose health made bright my Burgundy, 

Whose beauty was my vision! Praed, To , I, st. 5 

Whatsoe'er the hour or place, 

No bribe or prayer shall win me 
To say whose voice, or form, or face, 

That spell awoke within me! Ibid., Ill, st. 9 

3 Below lies one whose name was traced in sand. 

David Gray, My Epitaph 



Name — Names 275 

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls: 
Who steals my purse steals trash ; 't is something, noth- 
ing; 
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: 
But he that filches from me my good name 
Robs me of that which not enriches him 
And makes me poor indeed. — Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

What 's in a name? that which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet ; 
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, 
Retain that dear perfection which he owes 
Without that title. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Sweetheart, I love you so well that your good name is 
mine. 1 Tennyson, The Grandmother, st. 13 

Another name was on the door. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvii, st. 5 

Names. — Call all things by their names. Hell, call thou hell; 
Archangel, call archangel; and God, God. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — Home 

At thirty we are all trying to cut our names in big 

letters upon the walls of this tenement of life; twenty 

years later we have carved it, or shut up our jack-knives. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, iv 

Then shall our names, 
Familiar in his mouth as household words, . . . 
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 3 

And if his name be George, I '11 call him Peter; 
For new-made honour doth forget men's names. 

Shakespeare, King John, i 

Now sign your names, which shall be read, 

Mute symbols of a joyful morn, 

By village eyes as yet unborn. 
The names are signed, and overhead 

Begins the clash and clang that tells 

The joy to every wandering breeze ; 

The blind wall rocks, and on the trees 
The dead leaf trembles to the bells. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion, st. 15, 16 

1 My name, once mine, now thine, is closelier mine, 
For fame, could fame be mine, that fame were thine, 
And shame, could shame be thine, that shame were mine, 
So trust me not at all or all in all. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, lines 444-447 



276 Narrow — Nation 

Narrow. — To live in narrow ways with little men. 

Byron, Prophecy of Dante, Canto i, line 161 

Narrower. — Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, 
Resemble copper wire, or brass, 
Which gets the narrower by going farther! 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 23 

Nation. — The Power that has made and preserved us a nation! 
F. S. Key, The Star -Spangled Banner, st. 4 

A nation spoke to a nation, 

A Queen sent word to a throne : 
Daughter am I in my mother's house, 

But mistress in my own. 
The gates are mine to open 

As the gates are mine to close, 
And I abide in my mother's house, 

Said our Lady of the Snows. 

Kipling, Our Lady of the Snows, st. 6 

It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to 
the unfinished work, which they have thus far so nobly 
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to 
the great task remaining before us that from these hon- 
oured dead, we take increased devotion to that cause foi 
which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that 
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have 
died in vain; that this nation under God, shall have a 
new birth of freedom; and that government of the peo- 
ple, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from 
the earth. 1 

Lincoln, Address at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863 

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this 

planting, 
Then had sifted the wheat, as the living seed of a nation. 
Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, iv, 

lines 105, 106 
The fate of a nation was riding that night. 

Longfellow, Paid Revere' 's Ride, st: 8 



J Let us, the Living, rather dedicate 

Ourselves to the unfinished work, which they 

Thus far advanced so nobly on its way, 
And save the imperilled State! 
Let us, upon this field where they, the brave, 
Their last full measure of devotion gave, 

Highly resolve they have not died in vain! — 
That, under God, the Nation's later birth 

Of Freedom, and the people's gain 

Of their own sovereignty, shall never wane 
And perish from the circle of the earth! 

Bayard Taylor, Gettysburg Ode, st. 



Nation— Nature 277 

Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul 
An' risen up earth's greatest nation. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, vii, st. 21 

A nation saved, a race delivered! Ibid., x, st. 21 

The pith and marrow of a nation 
Drawing force from all her men, 
Highest, humblest, weakest, all, 
For her time of need, and then 
Pulsing it again through them. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 11 

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation 
rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking 
her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle 
mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled 
eyes at the full midday beam. Milton, Areopagitica 

Nativity. Glendower. At my nativity 

The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, 
Of burning cressets ; and at my birth 
The frame and huge foundation of the earth 
Shaked like a coward. 

Hotspur. Why, so it would have done at the same 
season, if your mother's cat had but kittened, though 
yourself had never been born. 

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth 
In strange eruptions. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Nature. — I love not man the less, but N attire more. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 178 

Nature, a jealous mistress, laid him low, 
He wooed and won her; and, by love made bold, 
She showed him more than mortal man should know, 
Then slew him lest her secret should be told. 

Sydney Dobell, Epigram on the Death of Edward 

Forbes 
Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. 1 

Dryden, The Cock and the Fox, line 452 

He who Nature scorns and mocks, 
By Nature is mocked and scorned. 

John Hay, The Monks of Basle, iv, st. 2 

Nature and time were twins. — James Montgomery, 

The Pelican Island, Canto iv, st. 1 

1 Nature is always wise in every part. 

E. Hovel, Lord Thurlow, To a Bird 



278 Nature — Nearer 

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 331, 332 
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii, 1 
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it 
By sovereignty of nature. Ibid., iv, 7 

How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature! 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 3 
O'erstep not the modesty of nature. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 
To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. 1 Ibid. 

He 's walked the way of nature ; 
And to our purposes he lives no more. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 2 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 

I have no debt but the debt of Nature ; and I want but 
patience of her, and I will pay her every farthing I owe 
her. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, VII, vii 

Nautilus. — Learn of the little nautilus to sail, 

Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iii, lines 177, 178 

Navy. — A load would sink a navy. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Nearer. — Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee! 
E'en though it be a cross' 

That raiseth me; 
Still all my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee. 2 — Sarah F. Adams, Nearer, My 

God, to Thee, st. 1 

1 Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, 

Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague, Curiosity 

2 Nearer my Father's house, 

Where the many mansions be; 
Nearer the great white throne, 

Nearer the crystal sea; 
Nearer the bound of life, 

Where we lay our burdens down; 
Nearer leaving the cross, 

Nearer gaining the crown! Phcebe Cary, Nearer Home, st. 2, 3 

Here in the body pent, 

Absent from Him I roam; 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 

A day's march nearer home. 

James Montgomery, At Home in Heaven, i, st. 2 



Necessary — Needs 279 

Necessary. — A necessary act incurs no blame. 

Cowper, The Task: Winter Walk at Noon, line 573 

Necessities. Are these things then necessities? 

Then let us meet them like necessities. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, hi, 1 

Necessity. — Necessity invented stools, 

Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. 

Cowper, The Task: The Sofa, lines 87, 88 

If necessity be the mother of invention. 1 

George Farquhar, The Twin Rivals, i, 1 

Necessity, 
The tyrant's plea. 2 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 393, 394 

To make a virtue of necessity. 3 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv, 1; 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, line 2361 

Necessity, thou mother of the world. 

Shelley, Queen Mab, vi, st. 10 

Needle. — Spontaneously to God should tend the soul, 
Like the magnetic needle to the Pole; 
But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, 
Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, 

Fresh from Saint Andrew's College, 
Should nail the conscious needle to the north? 4 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 1 2 

Needs. — The more goods a man has, the more he thinks he 
needs. Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, i 

1 Necessity, — thou best of peacemakers as well as surest prompter of 
invention. Scott, Peveril of the Peak, xxvi 

2 Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. 

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech on the Indian 

Bill, November, 1773 
3 To maken vertu of necessitee. Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, line 2184 

Orpheus, who found no remedy, 
Made virtue of necessity. 

William King, Orpheus and Eurydice, lines 193, 194 

He did make of necessity virtue. Rabelais, I, xi 

There is no virtue like necessity. — Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

4 If I put a weathercock on my house, Sir, I want it to tell which way the 
wind blows up aloft. ... I don't want a weathercock with a winch in an 
old gentleman's study that he can take hold of and turn, so that the vane 
shall point west when the great wind overhead is blowing east with all its 
might. Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, ii 



280 Neglect — Never 

Neglect. — A wise and salutary neglect. 

Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America, 

March 22, 1775 

Nell. — And then, while round them shadows gathered faster, 
And as the firelight fell, 
He read aloud the book wherein the Master 
Had writ of "Little Nell." 

Bret Harte, Dickens in Camp, st. 4 

Nepenthe.— Quaff, oh, quaff this kind nepenthe and forget 
this lost Lenore! Poe, The Raven, st. 14 

Nerve. — It is better to lose a pint of blood from your veins 
than to have a nerve tapped. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Nest. — There are no birds in last year's nest. 

Longfellow, It Is Not Always May, st. 3 

Nets. — Though 'tis pleasant weaving nets, 
'Tis wiser to make cages. 1 

T. Moore, Nets and Cages, st. 5 

Nettle. — Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 
And it stings you for your pains ; 
Grasp it like a man of mettle, 
And it soft as silk remains. 

,'T is the same with common natures : 

Use 'em kindly, they rebel; 
But be rough as nutmeg-graters, 

And the rogues obey you well. Aaron Hill, 

Verses Written on a Window in Scotland 

Out of this nettle, danger, 2 we pluck this flower, safety. 
Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 3 

Never. From its station in the hall 

An ancient timepiece says to all, — 
' ' For ever — never ! 
Never — for ever ! " 3 
Longfellow, The Old Clock on the Stairs, st. 1 

x The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies 
spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects 
In vain in the sight of the bird is the net of the fowler displayed. 

Kipling, Certain Maxims of Hafiz, st. 18 

2 Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 8 

3 "Tick-tock, tick-tock! " — for so the clock 

Tells of a life to be; 
"Tick-tock, tick-tock!" — 'tis so the clock 

Tells of eternity. Eugene Field, New Year's Eve, st. 2 



New— Night 281 

New. — New times demand new measures and new men. 1 

Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain, line 193 

New England. — A sup of New England's air is better than 
a whole draught of Old England's ale. 

Francis Higginson, New England's Plantation, 

Of the Air of New England 

News. — Evil news rides post, while good news baits. 

Milton, Samson Agonistes, line 1538 

Though it be honest, it is never good 
To bring bad news. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 1 

No news so bad abroad as this at home. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 1 

Newton. — Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : 
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. 

Pope, Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton 

Nice. — Some people are more nice than wise. 

Cowper, Mutual Forbearance, line 20 

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. 

Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects 

Nick. — Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 

Though he gave 's [gave his] name to our Old Nick. 

Butler, Hudibras, III, i, lines 1313, 1314 

Nigger. — Whar you finds de nigger — dar 's de banjo an' de 
'possum! Irwin Russell, De Fust Banjo, st. 11 

Night. — The night has a thousand eyes, 
And the day but one; 
Yet the light of the bright world dies 
With the dying sun. 

The mind has a thousand eyes, 

And the heart but one ; 
Yet the light of a whole life dies 

When" love is done. 

F. W. Bourdillon, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes 

'New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; 
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; 
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, 
Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, 
Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. 

Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 18 



282 Night — Nightcap 

Roused from their slumbers, 
In grim array the grisly spectres rise, 
Grin horrible, and, obstinately sullen, 
Pass and repass, hushed as the foot of night. 
Again the screech-owl shrieks. I '11 hear no more, 
It makes my blood run chill. Blair, The Grave 

All night I lay in agony, 

From weary chime to chime. 

Hood, The Dream of Eugene Aram, st. 26 
The day is done, and the darkness 
Falls from the wings of Night, 1 
As a feather is wafted downward 
From an eagle in his flight. 

Longfellow, The Day Is Done, st. 1 
Silence, ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls, 
And makes night hideous — Answer him, ye owls! 

Pope, The Dunciad, III, lines 165, 166 
Come, night; end, day! 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, iii, 2 

One that converses more with the buttock of the night 
than with the forehead of the morning. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii, 1 
In the dead vast and middle of the night. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 
'Tis now the very witching time of night, 
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out 
Contagion to this world. 2 Ibid., iii, 2 

'Tis a naughty night to swim in. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 4 
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, 
Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 2 
Macbeth. What is the night? 

Lady Macbeth. Almost at odds with morning, which 
is which. Ibid., iii, 4 

The night is long that never finds the day. Ibid., iv, 3 

Nightcap. — A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, 
A cap by night — a stocking all the day! 

Goldsmith, Description of an Author's Bed- 
chamber, lines 19, 20 

1 Smoothing the raven down 

Of darkness. Milton, Camus, lines 251, 252 

2 Now it is the time of night 

That the graves all gaping wide, 
Every one lets forth his sprite, 

In the church-way paths to glide. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, v, 1 [2] 



Nightingale — No 283 

Nightingale. — Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day: 1 
It was the nightingale, and not the lark, 
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 5 
Nightly. — When by my bed I saw my mother kneel, 
And with her blessing took her nightly kiss. 2 

W. Allston, Boyhood 
Niobe. — The Niobe of nations. 3 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, 79 

No. — I can march up to a fortress and summon the place to 

surrender, 
But march up to a woman with such a proposal, I dare 

not. 
I 'm not afraid of bullets, nor shot from the mouth of a 

cannon, 
But of a thundering "No! " point-blank from the mouth 

of a woman, 
That I confess I 'm afraid of, nor am I ashamed to confess 

it! Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, ii, 

lines 84-88 
To say why gals acts so or so, 

Or do n't 'ould be presumin' ; 
Mebby to mean yes an' say no 

Comes nateral to women. 

Lowell, The Courtin', st. 18 
At his birth an evil spirit 

Charms and spells around him flung, 
And, with well-concocted malice, 

Laid a curse upon his tongue ; 

He could plead, expound, and argue; 

Fire with wit, with wisdom glow; 
But one word for ever failed him, 

Source of all his pain and woe, 
Luckless wight ! he could not say it — 

Could not — dared not answer No ! 

Charles Mackay, My Neighbour, st. 6, 7 

1 She says, ' 'The cock crows, — hark! " 
He says, "No! still 'tis dark." 
She says, ' 'The dawn grows bright," 
He says, "O no, my Light! " 

She says, ' 'Then quick depart: 

Alas! you now must start; 

But give the cock a blow 

Who did begin our woe!" — Anonymous, The Parting Lovers, from 

the Chinese (trans, by W. R. Alger) 
2 Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, 
That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid. 

Cowper, On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture, lines 58, 59 
3 The Niobe of isles. J. B. O'Reilly, My Native Land 



284 Nobility— North 

Nobility. — Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, 
But leave us still our old nobility. — Lord John 

Manners, England's Trust, III, lines 227, 228 

Noble. — Noble thought produces 
Noble ends and uses, 
Noble hopes are part of Hope wherever she may be, 
Noble thought enhances 
Life and all its chances, 
And noble self is noble song, — all this I learn from thee ! 
Robert Buchanan, To David in Heaven, st. 17 

Noisy. — Vociferated logic kills me quite, 
A noisy man is always in the right. 
I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, 
Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare, 
And, when I hope his blunders are all out, 
Reply discreetly — "To be sure — no doubt! " 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 113-118 

Noon. — With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless 
noon 
Was clashed and hammered from a hundred towers. 

Tennyson, Godiva, lines 74, 75 

North. — The pale, unripened beauties of the North. 

Addison, Cato, i, 4 
From the caves of the North 
Mid the Night's dominions, 
I come tempesting forth 

On mine ice-ribbed pinions, 
And the snows are my robe, and the frost is my crown, 
and the clouds are my minions. 

But none ever dare to lay bare the cold lair of my dark 
generation. 1 
H. Bernard Carpenter, Liber Amoris, Wind- 
Song, st. 1, 4 

Ask where 's the North? — at York, 'tis on the Tweed; 

In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, 

At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 

No creature owns it in the first degree, 

But thinks his neighbour further gone than he. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 222-226 

1 "I barred my gates with iron, I shuttered my doors with flame, 
Because to force my ramparts your nutshell navies came; 
I took the sun from their presence, I cut them down with my blast, 
And they died, but the flag of England blew free ere the spirit passed." 

Kipling, The English Flag, st. 4 



Nor'wester — November 285 

Nor'-wester. — A strong nor'-wester's blowing, Bill; 
Hark! don't ye hear it roar now? 
Lord help 'em, how I pities them 

Unhappy folks on shore now! — William Pitt (of 

Malta), The Sailor's Consolation, st. i 

Nose. — Knows he that never took a pinch, 
Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows? 
Knows he the titillating joys 
Which my nose knows? 

nose, I am as proud of thee 
As any mountain of its snows ; 

1 gaze on thee, and feel that pride 

A Roman knows! — A. A. Forrester, To My Nose 

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, 

As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! 
Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, li, i 

Noses. — Tis said that people ought to guard their noses 
Who thrust them into matters none of theirs. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 6 

Note. — "In the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the fol- 
lowing words, ' May we never want a friend in need, nor 
a bottle to give him! ' When found, make a note of." 

Dickens, Dombey and Son, xv 

Nothing. — 'Twas doing nothing was his curse, 
Is there a vice can plague us worse? 

Hannah More, Florio, I 

Nothing will come of nothing. . . . 
Nothing can be made out of nothing. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, i, 4 

Novel. — Some play the devil, and then write a novel. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 201 

November. — No sun — no moon! 

No morn — no noon — 
No dawn — no dust — no proper time of day — 

No warmth — no cheerfulness - — no healthful ease — 
No comfortable feel in any member — 
No shade — no shine — no butterflies — no bees — 
No fruits — no flowers — no leaves — no birds — 

November! Hood, No I 



286 Numbers — Oars 

Numbers. — They say there is divinity in odd numbers. 1 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, v, i 

Nunnery. — Get thee to a nunnery. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, i 

Nursed. — Once when I had a fever — I won't forget it soon — 

I was hot as a basted turkey and crazy as a loon; 

Never an hour went by me when she was out of sight — 

She nursed me true and tender, and stuck to me day and 

night. W. Carleton, Betsey and I Are Out, st. 17 

Nut. — Sweetest nut hath sourest rind, 
Such a nut is Rosalind. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

Oak. Here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, 

Who stands in his pride alone; 
And still nourish he, a hale green tree, 
When a hundred years are gone! 

H. F. Chorley, The Brave Old Oak 

The hollow oak our palace is, 

Our heritage the sea. — A. Cunningham, A Wet Sheet 

and a Flowing Sea, st. 3 

Come cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer, 
The prize more than all to an Englishman dear ; 
To honour we call you as freemen, not slaves, 
For who are so free as the sons of the waves? 

Hearts of oak are our ships, 

Hearts of oak are our men, 

We always are ready, 

Steady, boys, steady! 
We '11 fight and we '11 conquer again and again. 2 

Garrick, Hearts of Oak, st. 1 

Oar. — The light drip of the suspended oar. 

Byron, Childe Harold, Canto iii, st. 86 

Oars. — Faintly as tolls the evening chime, 

Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. 8 

T. Moore, Canadian Boat Song, st. 1 

1 "Now Rory, leave off, sir; you'll hug me no more, 
That's eight times to-day you have kissed me before." 
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure, 
For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More. 

S. Lover, Rory O'More; or Good Omens, st. 3 

2 There are many versions of this song. 

3 And all the way, to guide their chime, 
With falling oars they kept the time. 

Andrew Marvell, Song of the Emigrants in Bermuda 



Oars — Occasion 287 

The measured pulse of racing oars. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvii, st. 3 

Oath. — A good mouth-filling oath. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Pari I, iii, 1 

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, 
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. 
Who can be bound by any solemn vow . . . 
And have no other reason for this wrong 
But that he was bound by a solemn oath? 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, v, 1 

A terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply 
twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever 
proof itself would have earned him. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 4 

The accusing spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chan- 
cery with the oath, 1 blushed as he gave it in; and the 
recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon 
the word and blotted it out for ever. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, VI, viii 

Oaths. — As false as dicers' oaths. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Obey. — No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned 
gladly to obey. 

Thomas X Kempis, Imitation of Christ, I, xx, 2 

Now these are the laws of the jungle, and many and 

mighty are they; 
But the head and the hoof of the law and the haunch 

and the hump is — Obey ! 

Kipling, The Law of the Jungle, st. 18 

Observation. — The bearings of this observation lays in the 
application on it. Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxiii 

Obstinacy. — Obstinacy's ne'er so stiff, 
As when 'tis in a wrong belief. 

Butler, Hudibras, III, ii, lines 483, 484 

Occasion. — How to occasion's height he rose. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 6 

J The context is given here to illustrate the nature of the offence and the 
kindly spirit of the offender. 

"In a fortnight ... he might march," added my uncle Toby-; ' 'He 

will never march . . . in this world," said the Corporal; . . . "the poor 
soul will die." ' 'He shall not die, by God! " cried my uncle Toby. 

Sad as angels for the good man's sin, 
Weep to record, and blush to give it in! 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii, st. 26 



288 Occasions — October 

Occasions. — There is occasions and causes why and where- 
fore in all things. Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, i 
Ocean. 1 — Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste. 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, line 43 
Roll on, thou deep and dark -blue 2 ocean - — roll! 
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; 
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 
Stops with the shore. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv st. 179 
And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy 
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be 
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy 
I wantoned with thy breakers . . . 
For I was as it were a child of thee, 
And trusted to thy billows far and near, 
And laid my hand upon thy mane 3 — as I do here. 

Byron, Ibid., st. 184 
The spirits of your fathers 
Shall start from every wave — 
For the deck it was their field of fame, 
And ocean was their grave. 

Campbell, Ye Mariners of England, st. 2 
Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, 
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the 
ocean. — S. T. Coleridge, The Homeric Hexameter 

(trans, from Schiller) 
We own the ocean, tu, John: 

You mus' n' take it hard, 
Ef we can't think with you, John, 
It 's jest your own back yard. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, Jonathan to John, st. 6 
A life on the ocean wave, 

A home on the rolling deep, 
Where the scattered waters rave, 
And the winds their revels keep! 

Epes Sargent, A Life on the Ocean Wave, st. 1 
October. — Nor wanting is the brown October, drawn, 
Mature and perfect, from his dark retreat 
Of thirty years ; and now his honest front 
Flames in the light refulgent, not afraid 
Even with the vineyard's best produce to vie, 
To cheat the thirsty moments. 

Thomson, The Seasons: Autumn, lines 519-524 

J Cf. Sea. 

2 Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. — Southey, Madoc in Wales, quoted 

by Byron in Don Juan, Canto iv, st. no 
3 He laid his hand upon "the ocean's mane," 
And played familiar with his hoary locks. 

Pollok, The Course of Time, iv, line 389 



Offence— Oily 289 

Offence. — In the corrupted currents of this world 
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, 
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself 
Buys out the law : but 't is not so above ; 
There is no shuffling, there the action lies 
In his true nature; and we ourselves compelled, 
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, 
To give in evidence. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 

In such a time as this it is not meet 

That every nice offence should bear his comment. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Offences. — All offences, my lord, come from the heart. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 8 

Offender. — She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence, 1 
Sex to the last. 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigenia, lines 367, 368 

Office. — If a due participation of office is a matter of right, 
how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are 
few; by resignation, none. Thomas Jefferson, 

Letter to Elias Shipman, July 12, 1801 

A dog's obeyed in office. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 6 

Officer. Cassio, I love thee; 

But never more be officer of mine. 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 

Official. — As it was in the beginning 
Is to-day official sinning, 
And shall be for evermore. 
Kipling, Departmental Ditties, General Summary, st. 5 

Officials. — Public officials are the trustees of the people, and 
hold their places and exercise their powers for the benefit 
of the people. 2 — Grover Cleveland, Speech before 

the City Convention, Buffalo, Oct. 25, 1881 

Oily. — A little, round, fat, oily man of God. 

Thomson, Castle of Indolence, i, 6 

1 And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence. 

Pope, Elo'tsa to Abelard, line 192 

2 Public officers are the servants and agents of the people to execute laws 
which the people have made, and within the limits of a constitution which 
they have established. — Grover Cleveland, Letter Accepting Nomina- 
tion for Governor, Oct. 7, 1882 



290 Old — Oppressed 

Old. — The old tree is leafless in the forest, 
The old year is ending in the frost, 
The old wound, if stricken, is the sorest, 
The old hope is hardest to be lost. 

E. B. Browning, The Cry of the Children, st. 2 

I love everything that's old: old times, old manners, 
old books, old wine. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i, 1 

When all the world is old, lad, 

And all the trees are brown; 
And all the sport is stale, lad, 

And all the wheels run down; 
Creep home, and take your place there, 

The spent and maimed among : 
God grant you find one face there, 

You loved when all was young! 

Kingsley, Songs from The Water Babies, II, st. 2 

If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host 
that I know is damned. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Once. — Better once than never. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 1 

One. — It 's very hard! — and so it is, 
To live in such a row, — 
And witness this that every Miss 
But me, has got a beau. — 
For Love goes calling up and down, 
But here he seems to shun; 
I 'm sure he has been asked enough 
To call at Number One. Hood, Number One, st. 1 

The ring is on, 
The "Wilt thou" answered, and again 
The "Wilt thou" asked, till out of twain 
Her sweet "I will" has made ye one. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion, st. 14 

Opinion. — He that complies against his will 
Is of his. own opinion still. 

Butler, Hudibras, III, iii, lines 547, 548 

Opinions. I have bought 

Golden opinions from all sorts of people. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 7 

Oppressed. — Holdin' up a beacon peerless 
To the oppressed of all the world! 

Lowell, The Biglow Papers, I, i, st. 16 



Oracle — Orthodoxy 291 

Oracle. — There are a sort of men whose visages 
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, 
And do a wilful stillness entertain, 
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion 
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ; 
As who would say "I am Sir Oracle, 
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark! " 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, i 

Orator. — I am no orator, as Brutus is; 

But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, 
That love my friend. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccssar, iii, 2 

Order. — Order is Heaven's first law. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, line 49 

Organ. Let the pealing organ blow, 

To the full -voiced quire below. 

Milton, U Penseroso, lines 161, 162 

Seated one day at the organ, 

I was weary and ill at ease, 
And my fingers wandered idly 

Over the noisy keys. 

A. A. Procter, A Lost Chord, st. 1 

Organs. — And heard once more in college fanes 
The storm their high -built organs make, 
And thunder -music, rolling, shake 
The prophets blazoned on the panes. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvii, st. 2 

Original. — The honourable gentleman has said much that is 
original, and much that is good, but the good is not origi- 
nal, and I am sorry to add, the original is not good. But 
one other comment is necessary, — the gentleman has 
drawn upon his memory for his eloquence, and upon his 
imagination for his facts. 1 

R. B. Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas 

Orion. — Great Orion sloping slowly to the west. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 8 

Orthodoxy. — Orthodoxy, my lord, is my doxy, and hetero- 
doxy is another man's doxy. 

Thomas Warburton, cited in Priestley's Memoirs 

Another reading is : Is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his 
imagination for his facts. 



292 Out — Oyster 

Out. — Launcelot and I are out. 1 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 5 

Outcast. — But suffer me to pace 
Round the forbidden place, 

Lingering a minute, 
Like outcast spirits who wait, 
And see through heaven's gate 
Angels within it. 

Thackeray, At the Church Gate, st. 5 

Outswear. — But we '11 outface them, and outswear them too. 
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 2 

Overrunning. We may outrun 

By violent swiftness that which we run at, 
And lose by overrunning. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 1 

Owe. — Prince. Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound? 

Falstaff. A thousand pound, Hal! a million: thy love 
is worth a million: thou owest me thy love. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 3 

Owes. — And looks the whole world in the face, 
For he owes not any man. 

Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith, st. 2 

Owl. — Alone and warming his five wits, 
The white owl in the belfry sits. 2 

Tennyson, The Owl, st. 1 
Own. — Stand for your own. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, i, 2 

Ox. — Like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be 
torn by dogs front and rear without a fair chance to gore 
one way or kick the other. Lincoln, 

Telegram to Gen. Joseph Hooker, June 5, 1863 

Oyster. — It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months 
that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster. 

Butler, Dyet's Dinner 

"There take" (says Justice) "take ye each a shell, 
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you:" 
'T was a fat oyster ■ — Live in peace — Adieu ! 

Pope, Verbatim from Boileau, lines 10-12 

1 Draw up the papers, lawyer, and make 'em good and stout; 
For things at home are crossways, and Betsey and I are out. 

W. Carleton, Betsey and I are Out, st. i 
2 From yonder ivy -mantled tower, 
The moping owl does to the moon complain 
Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, 
Molest her ancient, solitary reign. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 3 



Oyster — Pain 293 ' 

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2 

An oyster may be crossed in love. 

R. B. Sheridan, The Critic, iii, 1 

Pagan. Great God ! I 'd rather be 

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; 
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, 
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; 
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 

Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much With Us, 

lines 9-14 

Page. — You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where a neat 
rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of mar- 
gin. R. B. Sheridan, School for Scandal, i, 1 

Paid. — He is well paid that is well satisfied. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Pain. — See the wretch who long has tossed 
On the thorny bed of pain, 
At length repair his vigour lost, 
And breathe and walk again ; 
The meanest floweret of the vale, 
The simplest note that swells the gale, 
The common sun, the air, the skies, 
To him are opening Paradise. Gray, Ode on the 

Pleasure of Arising from Vicissitude, st. 7 

To kiss thine eyelids, when they droop with heaviness 

and pain, 
To pour sad tears upon thy hand, the heart's most 

precious rain, 
To mark the changing colotir as it flits across thy cheek, 
To feel thy very wishes ere the feverish lip can speak, 
To listen for the weakest word, watch for the lightest 

token, 
Oh, bliss, that such a dream should be! oh, pain, that it 

is broken! Praed, To , st. 5 

The depth of the abyss may be 

The measure of the height of pain. 
And love and glory that may raise 
This soul to God in after-days. 

A. A. Procter, Judge Not, st. 4 



294 Painter — Pants 

Painter. — A flattering painter, who made it'his care 

To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. 1 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, st. 6 

Pair. Hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair 

That ever since in love's embraces met. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 321, 322 

Pale. — Why so pale and wan, fond lover? 
Pr'ythee, why so pale? 
Will, when looking well can't move her, 

Looking ill prevail? Sir John Suckling, 

Song: Why So Pale and Wan, st. 1 

Pallas. — 'T is Pallas, Pallas gives this deadly blow. 

Dryden, Virgil's Mneid, XII, line 1373 

Pall Mall.— "Why Pall Mall Gazette?" asked Wagg. "Be- 
cause the editor was born in Dublin, the sub-editor at 
Cork, because the proprietor lives in Paternoster Row, 
and the paper is published in Catherine Street, Strand." 
Thackeray, Pendennis, xxxiv 

Palm. You yourself 

Are much condemned to have an itching palm; 

To sell and mart your offices for gold 

To undeservers. Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Pan. — I '11 cross him, and wrack him, until I heartbreak him, 
And then his auld brass will buy me a new pan. 

Burns, What Can a Young Lassie Do? st. 4 

Pansies. — There is pansies, that 's for thoughts. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Pantaloon. The lean and slippered Pantaloon, 
With spectacle on nose and pouch on side, 
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, 
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Pants. — The things named "pants" in certain documents, 
A word not made for gentlemen, but "gents." 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 47 

1 Here lies the man 
Who drew them as they are. 

Ebenezer Elliott, A Poet's Epitaph (Burns) 



Paradise — Part 295 

Paradise. — Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? 

Milton, Paradise Lost, XI, line 269 

A fool's paradise. 1 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

Parallel. — None but himself can be his parallel. 

Theobald, The Double Falsehood 

Parchment. — Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin 
of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that 
parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 2 

Pardoned. — May one be pardoned and retain the offence? 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 

Parlour. — Imagination fondly stoops to trace 

The parlour splendours of that festive place; 
The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, 
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door ; . 
J The chest contrived a double debt to pay, 
J A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 15 

Parrot. — That ever this fellow should have fewer words than 
a parrot, and yet the son of a woman! 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Parson. — For me, I neither know nor care 
Whether a parson ought to wear 

A black dress or a white dress ; 2 
Filled with a trouble of my own, — 
A wife who preaches in her gown, 
And lectures in her night-dress! 

Hood, The Surplice Question, st. 2 

A parson, much bemus'd in beer. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 15 

Part. — Some weep because they part, 
And languish broken-hearted, 
And others — O my heart ! — 
Because they never parted. 

T. B. Aldrich, Quat rain 19: The Difference 

1 In this fool's paradise he drank delight. 

G. Crabbe, The Borough, Letter xii, line 166 
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, III, line 496 
2 Referring to the dispute in the Church of England concerning the use in 
the pulpit of the white surplice or the black gown. 



Part — Partington 



Come, let us kiss and part, — 
Nay I have done, you get no more of me; 
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart 
That thus so cleanly I myself can free. 
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, 
And when we meet at any time again, 
Be it not seen, on either of our brows, 
That we one jot of former love retain. 1 

M. Drayton, Sonnet : Come, Let Us Kiss and Part 

Parted. — We parted in silence, we parted by night, 
On the banks of that lonely river; 
Where the fragrant limes their boughs unite, 
We met — and we parted for ever ! 2 

Julia Crawford, We Parted In Silence, st. i 

We parted — months and years rolled by ; 

We met again four summers after; 
Our parting was all sob and sigh — 

Our meeting was all mirth and laughter ; 
For in my heart's most secret cell 

There had been many other lodgers; 
And she was not the ball-room's belle, 

But only — Mrs. Something Rogers! 

Praed, Belle of the Ball-Room, st. 13 

Parting. — Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet 
sorrow, 
That I shall say good night till it be morrow. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

The honey -fee of parting. 

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, line 538 

Partings. Sudden partings, such as press 

The life from out young hearts. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 24 

Partington. — In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, 

Dame Partington . . . was seen at the door of her 

■ house, with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, 

squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing 

away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. 

1 1 hold it fit that we shake hands and part. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 
2 When we two parted 
In silence and tears, 
Half broken-hearted 
To sever for years, 
Pale grew thy cheek and cold, 

Colder thy kiss ; 
Truly that hour foretold 

Sorrow to this. Byron, When We Two Parted, st. 1 



Partington — Passions 297 

Mrs. Partington's spirit was up; but I need not tell you 
that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat 
Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a pud- 
dle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. 
Sydney Smith, Speech on the Reform Bill, 

delivered at Taunton, Eng., Oct. 12, 183 1 

Parts. — All are but parts of one stupendous whole. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, line 267 

Party. — Party faithlessness is party dishonour. . . . Par- 
ty honesty is party duty, and party courage is party 
expediency. — Orover Cleveland, Speech before the 
Business Men's Democratic Association, New York, 

Jan. 8, 1892 
Hans Breitmann gife a barty — 

Where ish dat barty now? 1 
Where ish de lofely golden cloud 

Dat float on de moundain's prow? 
Where ish de himmelstrahlende Stern — 

De shtar of de sphirit's light? 
All goned afay mit de Lager Beer — 
Afay in de Ewigkeit! 

C. G. Leland, Hans Breitmann' s Party, st. 6 

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. 

Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects 

Passion. — We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. 

T. Dekker, The Honest Whore, II, i, 2 

Your ruling passion strong in death. 2 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle i, line 263 

'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, v, 3 

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its 

novel force, 
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his 

horse. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 49, 50 

Passions. — Its passions will rock thee 

As the storms rock the ravens on high. 

Shelley, When the Lamp Is Shattered, st. 4 

1 "Hans Breitmann gif a barty, — vhere is dot barty now?" 

On every shelf where wit is stored to smooth the careworn brow. 

Holmes, Post-Prandial, st. 7 

2 The ruling passion, be it what it will, 
The ruling passion conquers reason still. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 153, 154 



298 Passions — Peace 

Ye, whose clay-cold heads and lukewarm hearts can 
argue down or mask your passions, tell me, what tres- 
pass is it that man should have them? or how his spirit 
stands answerable to the Father of Spirits but for his 
conduct under them! 

Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, The Conquest 

Path. — I will walk the long path with you. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, xi 

Patience. I do oppose 

My patience to his fury. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

She never told her love, 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek: 1 she pined in thought, 
And with a green and yellow melancholy 
She sat like patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 4 

Patient. — Beware the fury of a patient man. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, line 1005 

Patriotism. — Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. 2 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1775 

Paunches. — Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits 
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, i, 1 

Pauper. — There 's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round 

trot, — 
To the churchyard a pauper is going, I wot ; 
The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs; 
And hark to the dirge which the mad driver sings : 

Rattle his bones over the stones ! 

He 's only a pauper whom nobody owns ! 

T. Noel, The Pauper's Drive, st. 1 

Peace. — Hark! how the holy calm that breathes around 
Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; 
In still small accents whispering from the ground 
The grateful earnest of eternal peace. 3 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 4 

1 Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, 

Doth burn the heart to cinders. — Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ii, 4 [5] 

2 Often the resort of desperate men, the profession of a patriot. 

James Prior, Life of Burke, xi 

3 This stanza was removed by the author from the original poem. 



Peace 299 

The preservation of the general government in its 
whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our 
peace at home and safety abroad. 

Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, March 4, 180 1 

Peace wun't keep house with Fear: 
Ef you want peace, the thing you 've gut to du 
Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 232-234 

Better thet all our ships an' all their crews 
Should sink to rot in ocean's dreamless ooze, 
Each torn flag wavin' chellenge ez it went, 
An' each dumb gun a brave man's moniment, 
Than seek sech peace ez only cowards crave: 
Give me the peace of dead men or of brave! 

Ibid., lines 241-246 

Come, Peace! not like a mourner bowed 

For honour lost an' dear ones wasted, 
But proud, to meet a people proud, 

With eyes thet tell o' triumph tasted!— Ibid., x, st. 20 

The inglorious arts of peace. 

A. Marvell, Horatian Ode upon Cromwell' s 

Return From Ireland, st. 3 
Where peace 
And rest can never dwell. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 65, 66 

Peace hath her victories 
No less renowned than war. 

Milton, Sonnet to the Lord General Cromwell 

Oh, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war? 

Scott, Marmion, v, 12 

The time of universal peace is near. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 6 

This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase tailors, 
and breed ballad-makers. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iv, 5 
God send us peace! 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

I know myself now; and I feel within me 

A peace above all earthty dignities, 

A still and quiet conscience. Ibid. 



300 Peace — Pelf 

In this weak piping time of peace. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, i 

Ring in the thousand years of peace. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 7 

"Hate hath no harm for love," so ran the song; 
"And peace unweaponed conquers every wrong!" 

Whittier, Disarmament, lines 31, 32 

The bridal time of Law and Love, 

The gladness of the world's release, 

When, war -sick, at the feet of Peace 
The hawk shall nestle with the dove! 

Whittier, Lexington, st. 9 

Peaceful. — What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! 
How sweet their memory still! 
But they have left an aching void, 
The world can never fill. 

Cowper, Walking with God, st. 3 

When once their slumbering passions burn, 
The peaceful are the strong! 

Holmes, A Voice of the Loyal North, st. 5 

Pearl.— From the rough shell they picked the luscious food, 
And left a prince's ransom in the pearl. 

James Montgomery, The Pelican Island, 

Canto v, st. 8 

Peasant. — The might that slumbers in a peasant's arm. 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, I, st. 44 

Peasantry. — 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: 
Princes and lords may nourish, or may fade; 
A breath can make them, as a breath has made : 
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 3 

Pedigree. — Whose pedigree, traced to earth's earliest years, 
Is longer than anything else but their ears. _ 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 121, 122 

Pelf. — Excess of ill-got, ill -kept pelf 

Does only death and danger breed ; 
Whilst one rich worldling starves himself 
With what would thousand others feed. 

Charles Cotton, Contentation, st. 9 



Pen — People 301 

Pen. — Beneath the rule of men entirely great 
The pen is mightier than the sword. 

Take away the sword — 
States can be saved without it. 

E. G. Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, ii, 2 

The feather, whence the pen 
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, 
Dropped from an angel's wing. 1 

Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets, iii, 5 

Penitence. — By penitence the Eternal's wrath 's appeased. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4 

Penny. — An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst 
have it to buy gingerbread. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v, 1 

Pension. — Give 'im a letter — 
Can't do no better, 

Late Troop-Sergeant Major, an' — runs with a letter! 
Think what 'e 's been, 
Think what 'e 's seen, 
Think of his pension, an' — 
Gawd save the Queen! Kipling, Shillin' a Day, st. 2 

'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars for my 
colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable. 
A good wit will make use of anything: I will turn dis- 
eases to commodity. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

Penury. — Chill penury repressed their noble rage, 
And froze the genial current of the soul. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 14 

People. The People's voice is odd, 

It is, and it is not, the voice of God. — Pope, Imita- 
tions of Horace, II, Epistle i, lines 89, 90 

Slowly comes a hungry people, 2 as a lion, creeping nigher, 

Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying 

fire. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 135, 136 

!The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing 

Made of a quill from an angel's wing. H. Constable, Sonnet 

2 Wake not thou the giant 
Who drinks hot blood for wine. 

Ebenezer Elliott, The Corn-Law Hymn, st. 2 
An CEdipus-people is coming fast. 
With swelled feet limping on. 

The people will come to their own at last, — 
God is not mocked forever. 

John Hay, The Sphinx of the Tuileries, st. 5 



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302 Perfect— Phantoms 

Perfect. — A perfect form in perfect rest. Tennyson, 

The Day-Dream, The Sleeping Beauty, st. 3 

Perfection. — The very pink of perfection. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i, 1 

Whenever you hear a man dissuading you from at- 
tempting to do well, on the ground that perfection is 
" Utopian," beware of that man. 

Ruskin, Architecture and Painting, ii 

Perfume. — A strange invisible perfume. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 2 

Peril. — Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye 

Than twenty of their swords : look thou but sweet, 
And I am proof against their enmity. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Perils. — Ay me! what perils do environ 
The man that meddles with cold iron. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, hi, lines 1, 2 

Perjuries. At lovers' perjuries, 1 

They say, Jove laughs. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Perjury. — The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke 
cannot. Lincoln, Letter to 

J. R. Underwood, Oct. 26, 1864 

Perseverance. — Perseverance gains its meed, 
And patience wins the race. 

Bernard Barton, Bruce and the Spider, st. 5 

Perverse. — Still so perverse and opposite, 
iped God for spite. 
Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 217, 218 

Peter. — By robbing Peter he paid Paul. Rabelais, I, xi 

Phantom. — She was a phantom of delight 
When first she gleamed upon my sight; 
A lovely apparition, sent 
To be a moment's ornament. 

Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight, st. 1 

Phantoms. — I clasped the phantoms, and I found them air. 
Young, Night Thoughts, I, line 202 

1 Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, 
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, lines 758, 759 



As if they worshipped God for spite. 
" idib 



Philosophy — Pieces 303 

Philosophy. — In the calm lights of mild philosophy. 

Addison, Cato, i, i 

Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant V 
jade on a journey. 

Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, i 

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 ' 

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 3 

Phrases. — A man in all the world's new fashion planted, 
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, i, 1 

Phyllis. Herbs and other country messes, 

Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. 

Milton, L' Allegro, lines 85-86 

Physic. — Throw physic to the dogs; I '11 none of it. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 3 

Physician. Trust not the physician; 

His antidotes are poison. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iv, 3 

Pickaxe. — A pickaxe, and a spade, a spade, 
For and a shrouding sheet : 
Oh, a pit of clay for to be made 
For such a guest is meet ! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Pickers. — These pickers and stealers. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Pickwickian. — A Pickwickian construction. 

Dickens, Pickwick Papers, i 

Picture. — Look here, upon this picture, and on this, 
The counterfeit presentment 1 of two brothers. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Pieces. — It went to pieces all at once, 2 — 
All at once, and nothing first, — 
Just as bubbles do when they burst. 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. n 

^air Portia's counterfeit. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

2 Cf. Ground. 



304 Pig — Pins 

Pig. — Some men there are love not a gaping pig ; 
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, i 

Jacob ! I do not like to see thy nose 

Turned up in scornful curve at yonder pig. 1 

It would be well, my friend, if we, like him, 

Were perfect in our kind! — Southey, The Pig, lines 1—4 

Pillow. — Fair thoughts be your fair pillow ! 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 1 

Pilot. — O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, 

There 's danger on the deep. — T. H. Bayly, The Pilot 

Here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm. 2 

Canning, The Pilot That Weathered the Storm, st. 1 

Pinch. — Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about, 3 
Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5 

Pine. — And on that grave where English oak and holly 
And laurel wreaths entwine, 
Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly, 
This spray of Western pine! 

Bret Harte, Dickens in Camp, st. 10 

Pins. — Pricking her fingers with those cursed pins, 
Which surely were invented for our sins, — 

Making a woman like a porcupine, 
Not rashly to be touched. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto vi, st. 61, 62 

1 1 cannot bear to hear thee slandered, Goose! 

L. H. Sigourney, To a Goose, line 1 
2 A daring pilot in extremity ; 
Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high 
He sotight the storms ; but for a calm unfit, 
Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 159-162 
With Palinure's unaltered mood, 
Firm at his dangerous post he stood; 
Each call for needful rest repelled, 

With dying hand the rudder held. Scott, Marmion, Introd. to Canto i 

3 Dare you haunt our hallowed green? 
None but fairies here are seen. 
Down and sleep, 
Wake and weep; 
Pinch him black, and pinch him blue, 
That seeks to steal a lover true! 
When you come to hear us sing, 
Or to tread our fairy ring, 
Pinch him black, and pinch him blue! 
Oh, thus our nails shall handle you! Anonymous, The Fairies' Dance 



Pious— Place 305 

Pious. — O ye wha are sae guid yoursel', 
Sae pious and sae holy, 
Ye 've nought to do but mark and tell 
Your neebours' faults and folly! 

Burns, Address to the Unco Guid, st. i 

Young Obadias, 
David, Josias, — 
All were pious. New England Primer 

Pipe. — Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? 
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret 
me, [yet] you cannot play upon me. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Pity. — Careless their merits, or their faults to scan, 
His pity gave ere charity began. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 10 

No flocks that range the valley free 

To slaughter I condemn: 
Taught by that Power that pities me, 

I learn to pity them. 

Goldsmith, The Hermit, st. 6 

Such pity as my rapier's point affords. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 3 

But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it! 

Shakespeare, Othello, iv, 1 
Pity 's akin to love. 1 

Thomas Southerne, Oroonoka, ii, 1 

Now pity is the touch of God 

In human hearts, 
And from that way He ever trod 

He ne'er departs. 

Walter C. Smith, The Self-Exiled, st. 25 

Place. — All rising to great place is by a winding stair. 2 

Bacon, Essay XI: Of Great Place 

To place and power all public spirit tends 
In place and power all public spirit ends. 

T. Moore, Corruption 

J Of all the paths lead to a woman's love 
Pity's the straightest. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Knight of Malta, i, 1 

Pity melts the mind to love. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, line 96 

Pity swells the tide of love. Young, Night Thoughts, III, line 106 

2 The ascent to high office is steep, the summit slippery, the descent pre- 
cipitous. Bacon, Essay XI: Of Great Place 



306 Plague — Play 

Plague. — A plague o' both your houses! 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, i 

Plain. — One of those still plain men that do the world's 
rough work. — Lowell, On a Bust of General Grant, st. 6 

Plain-song. That is the very plain-song of it. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 2 

Planet. — They '11 search a planet's house, to know 
Who broke and robbed a house below; 
Examine Venus and the moon, 
Who stole a thimble or a spoon ; 

They 11 question Mars, and, by his look, 
Detect who 'twas that nimmed a cloak. 1 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 589-598 

Plant. — Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, 
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; 
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 
Destroying others, by himself destroyed. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 63-66 

Play. — In play, there are two pleasures for your choosing — 
The one is winning, and the other losing. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiv, st. 12 

Though this may be play to you, 
'Tis death to us. 

L'Estrange, The Boys and the Frogs 

And laughed, and blushed, and oft did say, 

Her pretty oath by Yea, and Nay, 

She could not, would not, durst not play! 

Scott, Marmion, v, st. n 
The play 's the thing 
Wherein I '11 catch the conscience of the king. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 
Play out the play. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

1 They '11 find, i' th' physiognomies 
O' th' planets, all men's destinies; 

They'll feel the pulses of the stars, 

To find out agues, coughs, catarrhs; 

And tell what crisis does divine 

The rot in sheep, or mange in swine; 

In men, what gives or cures the itch, 

What made them cuckolds, poor, or rich; 

What gains, or loses, hangs, or saves, 

What makes men great, what fools, or knaves; 

But not what wise, for only 'f those 

The stars, they say, cannot dispose. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 601-618 



Player — Pluck 307 

Player. — Is it not monstrous that this player here, 
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, 
Could force his soul so to his own conceit 
That from her working all his visage wanned, 
Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, 
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting 
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! 
For Hecuba! 

What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 
That he should weep for her? 1 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Playmates. — I have had playmates, I have had companions 
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days; 
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. 

Lamb, The Old Familiar Faces, st. 1 

Please. — We that live to please must please to live. 

Samuel Johnson, Prologue on the Opening of 

Drury Lane Theatre 

Pleasure. — It spoils the pleasure of the time. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Pleasure will be paid, one time or another. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 4 

Pledge. — For the support of this declaration, with a firm 
reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we 
mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, 
and our sacred honour. 

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence 

Plenty. — I was na fou, but just had plenty. 

Burns, Death ana Doctor Hornbook, st. 3 

Ploughman. — While the ploughman near at hand 
Whistles o'er the furrowed land, 
And the milkmaid singeth blithe, 
And the mower whets his scythe, 
And every shepherd tells his tale 
Under the hawthorn in the dale. 

Milton, L' Allegro, lines 63-68 

Pluck. — Be firm! one constant element in luck 
Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 32 

His was the surly English pluck, and there is no 
tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be. 

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 35 

X I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; 
Speak, and look back, and pry on every side, 
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, 
Intending deep suspicion. Shakespeare, King Richard III, iii, 5 



308 Plume — Poetic 

Plume. — Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from 

wing to wing, 
Down all our line a deafening shout, "God save our Lord 

the king! " 
And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, 
For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, 
Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the 

ranks of war, 
And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. 

Macaulay, Ivry, st. 3 

Plutarch. — Here was a type of the true elder race, 

And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. 
Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 6 

Plymouth. — In the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land 
of the Pilgrims. 

Longfellow, Cotirtship of Miles Standish, I, line 1 

Poem. — Now it is not one thing nor another alone 
Makes a poem, but rather the general tone, 
The something pervading, uniting the whole, 
The before unconceived, unconceivable soul, 
So that just in removing this trifle or that, you 
Take away, as it were, a chief limb of the statue; 
Roots, wood, bark, and leaves singly perfect may be, 
But, clapped hodge-podge together, they don't make a 
tree. Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 540-547 

Poet. — A wandering poet, who thought it his duty 
To feed upon nothing but bowls and beauty; 
Who worshipped a rhyme, and detested a quarrel, 
And cared not a single straw for a laurel, 
Holding that Grief was Sobriety's daughter, 
And loathing critics and cold water. 

Praed, The Modern Nectar, lines 13-18 

Never durst poet touch a pen to write 

Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3 

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; 

And, as imagination bodies forth 

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing 

A local habitation and a name. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, v, 1 

Poetic. — Mingling poetic honey with trade wax. 

Hood, Sonnet: Literary Reminiscences 



Poetry — Poison 309 

Poetry. — Poetry is itself a thing of God. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Proem, line 5 

Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man 
because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood 
has left him when his hand trembles ! If they ever were 
there, they are there still! 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, v 

It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 1 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 188 

The truest poetry is the most feigning. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 3 

I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, 
Or a dry wheel grate on the [an] axle-tree ; 
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, 
Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 
.'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Poets. — Three poets in three distant ages born, 
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. 
The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed; 
The next, in majesty; in both the last. 
The force of Nature could no further go; 
To make a third, she joined the other two. 

Dryden, Lines Under Milton's Picture 

What are our poets, take them as they fall, 
Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all? 
They and their works in the same class you '11 find ; 
They are the mere waste-paper of mankind. 

Franklin, Paper, st. 10 

Plain hoss-sense in poetry-writin' 

Would jes knock sentiment a-kitin'! 

Mostly poets is all star-gazin' 

And moanin' and groanin' and paraphrasin' ! 

J. W. Riley, A Wholly Unscholastic Opinion 

Point. — Not to put too fine a point upon it. 

Dickens, Bleak House, xxxii 

Poison. — What *s one man's poison, signor, 
Is another's meat or drink. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure, iii, 2 

1 Poetic souls delight in prose insane. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, line 38 [243] 



3 1 o Politicians — Porridge 

Politicians. — It is the weaker sort of politicians that are the 
greatest dissemblers. 

Bacon, Essay VI: Of Simulation and Dissimulation 

Politics. — I should be glad to drink your honour's health in 
A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence; 
But for my part, I never love to meddle 
With politics, sir. — Canning, The Friend of Humanity 

and the Knife-Grinder, st. 8 

Practical politics must not be construed to mean dirty 
politics. . . . The most practical of all politicians is the 
politician who is clean and decent and upright. 

Theodore Roosevelt, cited by Jacob Riis in 

Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen, xvii 

Pomp. — Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Poor. — Let not ambition mock their useful toil, 
Their homely joys,' and destiny obscure; 
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
The short and simple annals of the poor. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 9 

He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 22 

My friends were poor, but honest; so 's my love. 

Shakespeare, All 's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 2 
As poor as Job. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5 

Taake my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad. 
Tennyson, Northern Farmer, New Style, st. 12 

Poor-house. — Over the hill to the poor-house I 'm trudgin' 
my weary way. 

W. Carleton, Over the Hill to the Poor-house, st. 1 

Pope. — Nor do I know what is become 
| Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, iii, lines 263, 264 

/Pork. — In converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price 
of pork. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 5 

Porridge. — The halesome parritch, chief o' Scotia's food. 

Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. n 



I 



Posterity — Powder 3 1 1 



Posterity. As though there were a tie 

And obligation to posterity, 
We get them, bear them, breed and nurse. 
What has posterity done for us, 
That we, lest they their rights should lose, 
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? 

J. Trumbull, McFingal, ii 

Positivist. — There was an ape in the days that were earlier ; 
Centuries passed, and his hair grew curlier; 
Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist, 
Then he was a Man and a Positivist. 

Mortimer Collins, Darwin 

Possibilities. — Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is 
good gifts. — Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i 

Potatoes. — Let the sky rain potatoes ; let it thunder to the 
tune of Green Sleeves. Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 3 

Potomac. — All quiet along the Potomac to-night ; 
No sound save the rush of the river ; 
While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — 
The picket 's off duty forever! — Ethel Lynn Beers, 

All Quiet Along the Potomac, st. 6 

Potter. — Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? 1 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 87 

Poverty. — Content with poverty, my soul I arm; 
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. 

Dryden, Paraphrase of Horace, III, Ode 

29, lines 86, 87 
Apothecary. My poverty, but not my will, consents. 
Romeo. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 1 

Pow. — John Anderson my jo, John, 
When we were first acquent 
Your locks were like the raven, 
Your bonnie brow was brent ; 
But now your brow is beld, John, 

Your locks are like the snow ; 
But blessing on your frosty pow, 
John Anderson my jo. 

Robert Burns, John Anderson, st. 1 

Powder. — Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your 
powder dry Col. Blacker, Oliver's Advice 

1 Another reading is : Who makes — who sells — who buys — who is the 
Pot? 



312 Powder — Pray 

Food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iv, 2 

Something upon the soldier's cheek 
Washed off the stains of powder. 

Bayard Taylor, Song of the Camp, st. 7 

Power-house. — The power-house of the Line! 

Kipling, The Native-Born, st. 12 

Practised. He practised what he preached. 

J. Armstrong, Art of Preserving Health 

Praise. — He praised me at a time when praise was of value 
to me. Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1745 

Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise. 

Milton, Paradise Regained, III, line 56 

With much to praise, little to be forgiven. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 19 

Praise is the salt that seasons right to man, 
And whets his appetite for moral good. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VII, lines 420, 421 

Pray. — Two went to pray ? Oh rather say, 
One went to brag, th' other to pray: 

One stands up close and treads on high, 
Where th' other dares not lend his eye. 

One nearer to God's altar trod, 
The other to the altar's God. 

Richard Crashaw, Divine Epigrams: Two 

Went up into the Temple 

Weep for the frail that err, the weak that fall, 
/ Have thine own faith, — but hope and pray for all! 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 30 

Church is " a little heaven below, 

I have been there and still would go," — 

Yet I am none of those who think it odd 

A man can pray unbidden from the cassock, 
And, passing by the customary hassock, 

Kneel down remote upon the simple sod, 

And sue in forma pauperis to God. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 20 

King Ferdinand. You shall fast a week with bran and 
water. 

Costard. I had rather pray a month with mutton and 
porridge. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, i, 1 



Prayed— Prayeth 313 

Prayed. — Yet Enoch as a brave God-fearing man 
Bowed himself down, and in that mystery 
Where God-in-man is one with man-in-God, 
Prayed for a blessing on his wife and babes. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, lines 185-188 

There he would have knelt, but that his knees 
Were feeble, so that falling prone he dug 
His fingers into the wet earth, and prayed. 1 

Ibid., lines 774-776 

Prayer. — I stretch my hands out in the empty air ; 
I strain my eyes into the heavy night ; 

Blackness of darkness! Father, hear my prayer 

Grant me to see the light ! 

George Arnold, In the Dark 

Ah ! He who prayed the prayer of all mankind 
Summed in those few brief words the mightiest plea 
For erring souls before the courts of heaven, — 
Save us from being tempted, — lest we fall! 

Holmes, Rights, lines 22-25 

/^Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 
Uttered or unexpressed, 
The motion of a hidden fire 
That trembles in the breast. 2 

James Montgomery, What is Prayer, st. 1 

A^Oh, what form of prayer 
Can serve my turn? Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 

Prayers. — Thou child of many prayers ! 

Longfellow, Maidenhood, st. 9 

Few and short were the prayers we said, 

And we spoke not a word of sorrow, 
But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, 

And we bitterly thought of the morrow. 

Charles Wolfe, Burial of Sir John Moore, st. 4 

Prayeth. — He prayeth well, who loveth well 
Both man and bird and beast. 

1 And here all hope soured on me 

Of my feller-critter's aid, — 
I jest flopped down on my marrow-bones, 

Crotch-deep in the snow, and prayed. — John Hay, Little Breeches, st. 5 

2 It is not the words of the prayer, but the yearning back of the praying. 

Ella Wheeler Wjlcox, Art and Heart, st. 5 

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: 
/"Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 



3 1 4 Pray eth — Preacher 

He prayeth best, who loveth best 
All things both great and small ; 
For the dear God who loveth us, 
He made and loveth all. 1 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 612-617 

Praying. — Mr. Chadbands he wos a-prayin' wunst at Mr. 
Snagsby's and I heard him, but he sounded as if he wos 
a -speaking to hisself, and not to me. He prayed a lot, 
but I couldn't make out nothink on it. Different times, 
there was other gentlemen come down Tom-all-Alone's 
a-prayin', but they all mostly sed as the t'other wuns 
prayed wrong, and all mostly sounded to be a-talkin' to 
theirselves, or a-passin' blame on the t'others, and not 
a-talkin' to us. Dickens, Bleak House, xlvii 

Preached. — - 1 preached as never sure to preach again, 
And as a dying man to dying men. 

Richard Baxter, Love Breathing Thanks and Praise 

Preacher. — Look! you can see from this window my brazen 

howitzer planted 
High on the roof of the church, a preacher who speaks 

to the purpose, 
Steady, straightforward, and strong, with irresistible 

logic, 
Orthodox, flashing conviction right into the hearts of the 

heathen. 



Truly the only tongue that is understood by the savage 
Must be the tongue of fire that speaks from the mouth of 
the cannon. Longfellow, Courtship of Miles 

Standish, i, lines 46-49; iv, lines 126, 127 

This is what makes him, 2 the crowd-drawing preacher, 
There's a background of God to each hard-working 

feature, 
Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced 
In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest : 

But his periods fall on you, stroke after stroke, 
Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak, 
You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet 
With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street. 
Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 801-812 

1 He serves thee best who loveth most 

His brothers and thy own. Whittier, Our Master, St. 35 

2 Theodore Parker. 



Preachers — Pride 3'5 

Preachers. — When preachers tell us all they think, 
And party leaders all they mean. 

Holmes, Latter -Day Warnings, st. 3 

Precedent. — It must not be ; there is no power in Venice 
Can alter a decree established : 
'Twill be recorded for a precedent, 
And many an error by the same example 
Will rush into the state : it cannot be. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Preferment. Tis the curse of service, 

Preferment goes by letter and affection, 
And not by [the] old gradation, where each second 
Stood heir to the first. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

Prescient. — One sails toward me o'er the bay, 
And what he comes to do and say 

I can foretell. A prescient lore 
Springs from some life outlived of yore. 

P. H. Hayne, Pre-Existence 

Presentiment. — A man . . . has seldom an offer of kind- 
ness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of 
it some moments before. 

Sterne, A Sentimental Journey, The Remise, Calais 

President. — The President of the United States is only the 
engine-driver of our broad-gauge mail train; and every 
honest, independent thinker has a seat in the first-class 
cars behind him. 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, v 

Press. — What need of help? He knew how types were set, 
He had a dauntless spirit, and a press. 

Lowell, To W. L. Garrison, st. 2 

Presume. — Do not presume too much upon my love ; 
I may do that I shall be sorry for. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Price. — All those 1 men have their price. 2 

Sir Robert Walpole, cited in his Life, by Coxe 

Pride. — Pride is one of the seven deadly sins ; but it cannot 
be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a 
compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope. 

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xliii 

1 Walpole here spoke specifically of certain pretended patriots, not of 
mankind in general. 
2 1 know my price, I am worth no worse a place. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 



3 1 6 Pride — Primroses 

Pride in their port, 1 defiance in their eye. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, st. 25 

A pride there is of rank — a pride of birth, 
A pride of learning, and a pride of purse, 
A London pride — in short, there be on earth 
A host of prides, some better and some worse; 
But of all prides, since Lucifer's attaint, 
The proudest swells a self -elected saint. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 32 

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; 
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. 
Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, 
Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 123-126 

He owned with a grin 
That his favorite sin 

Is pride that apes humility. 

Southey, The Devil's Walk, st. 8 

Once, when I was up so high in pride 
That I was half way down the slope to hell, 
By overthrowing me you threw me higher. 

Tennyson, Geraint and Enid, lines 789-791 

Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars; 
But Pleasure, lark -like, nests upon the ground. 

Young, Night Thoughts, V, lines 19, 20 

Priest. — A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods. 

Pope, The Dunciad, III, line 208 

Primrose. — A primrose by a river's brim 
A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing more. 2 

Wordsworth, Peter Bell, i, st. 12 

Primroses. Pale primroses, 

That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Phoebus in his strength — a malady 
Most incident to maids. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

iHis was the lofty port — the distant mien, 
That seems to shun the sight — and awes if seen. 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 16 
There was pride in the head she carried so high, 
Pride in her lip, and pride in her eye, 
And a world of pride in the very sigh _ 
That her stately bosom was fretting! 

J. G. Saxe, The Proud Miss MacBride 
2 Now a flower is just a flower: 
Man, bird, beast are but beast, bird, man. 

Robert Browning, Asolando, Prologue, st. 2 



Prince — Prior 3 1 7 

Prince. — When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded, 
The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall; 
With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, 
And pages stand mute by the canopied pall. 

Scott, Helvellyn, st. 4 

That prince, and that alone, is truly great, 
Who draws the sword reluctant, gladly sheaths; 
On empire builds what empire far outweighs, 
And makes his throne a scaffold to the skies. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VI, lines 362-365 

Princes. — Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause 
good or evil times, and which have much veneration, 
but no rest. Bacon, Essay XIX : Of Empire 

Print. — Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so," 
Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No." 

Bunyan, Apology for His Book, st. 4 

A chiel 's amang you, taking notes, 
And, faith, he '11 prent it. 

Burns, On Captain Grose' 's Peregrinations, st. 1 

Printers. — I '11 wish he had to write his song beneath a mid- 
night taper; 

On pittance that would scarcely pay for goose-quill, ink, 
and paper; 

And then, to crown his misery, and break his heart in 
splinters ; 

1 11 wish he had to see his proofs, his publishers, and 
printers. Eliza Cook, Lines on a Ntghtingale, st. 14 

Printing. — Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth 
of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, 
before, our forefathers had no other books but the score 
and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, 
contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast 
built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that 
thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun 
and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian 
ear can endure to hear. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iv, 7 

Prior. — Nobles and heralds, by your leave, 

Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, 
The son of Adam and of Eve; 

Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher? 

Matthew Prior, Epitaph on Himself 



3 1 8 Prison — Promise 

Prison. — Stone walls doe not a prison make, 
Nor iron bars a cage. 1 

Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison, st. 4 

Prize. — Let a man contend to the uttermost 
For his life's set prize, be it what it will! 

Robert Browning, The Statue and the Bust, st. 81 

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, i, 2 

The prize be sometimes with the fool, 
The race not always to the swift. 

Thackeray, The End of the Play, st. 5 

Procrastination. — Procrastination is the thief of time. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, line 393 

Profession. — I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; 
from the which, as men of course do seek to receive coun- 
tenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour 
themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament 
thereunto. Bacon, Law Tracts: Preface 

Progress. Progress is 

The law of life, man is not Man as yet. 

When all mankind alike is perfected, 

Equal in full-blown powers — then, not till then, 

I say, begins man's general infancy. 

Robert Browning, Paracelsus, v 

Promise. — Bate me some and I will pay you some, and, as 
most debtors do, promise you infinitely. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, Epilogue 

Be these juggling fiends no more believed, 
That palter with us in a double sense; 
That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 8 [7] 

All promise is poor dilatory man. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, line 412 

x That which the world miscalls a jail 
A private closet is to me; 
Whilst a good conscience is my bail, 

And innocence my liberty: 
Locks, bars, and solitude together met, 
Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret. 

Sir Roger L'Estrange, In Prison, st. a 



Promises — Proud 3 1 9 

Promises. — Bad promises are better broken than kept. 1 
Lincoln, Last Public Address, 

April 11, 1865 

Pronouns. — Who would succeed in the world should be wise 
in the use of his pronouns. 
Utter the You twenty times where you once utter the /. 
John Hay, Distichs, xiii 

Property. — Proputty, proputty sticks, an' proputty, proputty 
graws. Tennyson, Northern Farmer, New Style, st. 4 

He hath no need of property 

Who knows not how to spend it. 

Thackeray, The King of Brentford' s Testament, st. 33 

Prophesy. — Don 't never prophesy — onless ye know. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, line 38 

Prophet. — The mariner curseth the warning bird 
Who bringeth him news of the storm unheard ! 
Ah! thus does the prophet of good or ill 
Meet hate from the creatures he serveth still. 

B. W. Procter, The Stormy Petrel, st. 3 

Propose. — Why don't the men propose, mamma, 
Why don't the men propose? 

T. H. Bayly, Why Do n't the Men Propose? 

Prose. — Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, line 16 

Prosper. — God prosper your affairs ! 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

Prosperous. — So long as I was prosperous, I 'd dinners by 

the dozen, 
Was well-bred, witty, virtuous, and everybody's cousin; 
If luck should turn, as well she may, her fancy is so 

flexile, 
Will virtue, cousinship, and all return with her from 

exile? 

Lowell, Translation of Mapes's Imitation of Petronius 

Protests. — The lady protests [doth protest] too much, me- 
thinks. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

Proud. — The proud are always most provoked by pride. 

Cowper, Conversation, line 160 

1 This is, however, proverbial. 



320 Proud — Publishers 

Proud of her wit, and proud of her walk, 
Proud of her teeth, and proud of her talk, 
Proud of "knowing cheese from chalk," 
On a very slight inspection. 

J. G. Saxe, The Proud Miss MacBride 

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own 
glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, ii, 3 

Prove. — Free to prove 1 all things, and hold fast the best. 

Cowper, Table Talk, line 273 

I put this question hopelessly, 

To every one I knew — 
What would you do, if you were me, 

To prove that you were you? 

H. S. Leigh, The Twins, st. 3 

I '11 prove it on his body. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Proverb. — My definition of a proverb is, the wit of one man 
and the wisdom of many. 

Earl Russell, To Sir J. Mackintosh 

Providence. Don't give up afore the ship goes down: 

It 's a stiff gale, but Providence wun't drown ; 
An' God wun't leave us yit to sink or swim, 
Ef we do n't fail to du wut 's right by Him. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 315-318 

There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 2 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 2 

Prudes. — By fools insulted, and by prudes accused. 

Epitaph of Laurence Sterne 

Publican. — How like a fawning publican he looks! 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Publishers. — When publishers no longer steal, 
And pay for what they stole before 

Holmes, Latter-Day Warnings, st. 8 

1 Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good. i Thess, v, 2 1 

2 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall 
on the ground without your Father. Matt, x, 29 

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is for- 
gotten before God? Luke xii, 6 



Punch — Purpose 3 2 ' 



Punch. — "Jack," said my lady, "is it grog you'll try, 
Or punch, or toddy, if perhaps you're dry? " 
"Ah," said the sailor, "though I can't refuse, 
You know, my lady, 't ain't for me to choose; 
I '11 take the grog to finish off my lunch, 
And drink the toddy while you mix the punch." 

Holmes, A Modest Request, The Scene, lines 55-60 

Puns. — People that make puns are like wanton boys that 
put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse them- 
selves and other children, but their little trick may upset 
a freight -train of conversation for the sake of a battered 
witticism. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Purgatory. — As the Celt said of purgatory, 
One might go farther and fare worse. 

Whittier, The Wreck of Riverrnouth, st. 19 

Puritans. — The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it 
gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to 
the spectators. Macaulay, History of England, I, ii 

Purity. — We maids would far, far whiter be 
If that our eyes might sometimes see 
Men maids in purity. 

Lanier, The Symphony, lines 300-302 

By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out 

The purity of his. — Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Purpose. — Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and 

purpose high; 
Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all 

pleasure by; 
Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been 

enthralled ; 
Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly 

called ; 
Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its 

brim; 
Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly 

beckoned him; 
Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan 
By stern and lonely labor, — and has died, a conquered 

man! "George Arnold, Wool-Gathering, iii 

I want that glib and oily art, 
To speak and purpose not. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 1 



322 Purpose — Quarrel 

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose 

runs, 1 
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process 

of the suns. — Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 137, 138 

Purse. — Consumption of the purse. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

Put money in thy purse. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Pygmies. — Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on 
Alps ; 
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 
Each man makes his own statue, builds himself: 
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; 
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. 

Young, Night Thoughts, VI, lines 309-313 

Pyramids. — Forty centuries look down upon you from the 
summit of the Pyramids. 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, II, 41 

Quality. — Give us a taste of your quality. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Quarrel. — Rather than fail, they will defy 
That which they love most tenderly, 
Quarrel with minced-pies, and disparage 
Their best and dearest friend — plum-porridge ; 
Fat pig and goose itself oppose, 
And blaspheme custard through the nose. 2 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 225-230 

Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, 
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

1 These struggling tides of life that seem 

In wayward, aimless course to tend, 
Are eddies of the mighty stream 

That rolls to its appointed end. Bryant, The Crowded Street, st. 11 
One God, one law, one element: 
And one far-off divine event 
To which the whole creation moves. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion, st. 36 

2 Why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, 
in his beard, than thou hast: thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, 
having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes : what eye but such 
an eye would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an 
egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg 
for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, 
because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun: didst 
thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? 
with another, for tying his new shoes with old riband ? and yet thou wilt 
tutor me from quarrelling. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 1 



Quarrel— Quietus 323 

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we 
should only spoil it by trying to explain it. 

Sheridan, The Rivals, iv, 3 

Quarrelled. — We quarrelled like brutes, and who wonders? 
What self-respect could we keep, 
Worse housed than your hacks and your pointers, 
Worse fed than your hogs and your sheep? 

Kingsley, The Bad Squire [A Rough Rhyme on 

a Rough Matter], st. 13 

Quarrelling. — Besides that he 's a fool, he 's a great quarreller ; 
and, but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the 
gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the 
prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, i, 3 

Quarrels. Those who in quarrels interpose 

Must often wipe a bloody nose. 

Gay, Fables: The Mastiffs 

Queen. — Her court was pure; her life serene; 
God gave her peace ; her land reposed ; 
A thousand claims to reverence closed 
In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen. 

Tennyson, To the Queen 
Queer. — I know it is a sin 
For me to sit and grin 

At him here; 
But the old three-cornered hat, 
And the breeches, and all that, 

Are so queer! Holmes, The Last Leaf, st. 7 

Questions. — Ask me no questions, and I '11 tell you no fibs. 

Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, iii 

Quiet. — Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 42 

For she was jest the quiet kind 

Whose naturs never vary, 
Like streams that keep a summer mind 

Snowhid in Jenooary. Lowell, The Courtin', st. 22 

Quietus. — Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 
The pangs of despised [disprized] love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare bodkin? Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 



324 Quips— Rain 

Quips. — Thy quips and thy quiddities. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 2 

Race. — Not to the swift, the race: 
Not to the strong, the fight : 
Not to the righteous, perfect grace: 
Not to the wise, the light. 

But often faltering feet 
Come surest to the goal; 
And they who walk in darkness meet 
The sunrise of the soul. 

Henry van Dyke, Reliance, st. 1, 2 

Radish. — If I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of 
radish. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Rage. — The wine of passion — rage. 

Byron, The Island, Canto i, st. 3 

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, 
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 

Congreve, Mourning Bride, hi, 2 

In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 1 

Raggedy-man. — Ain't he a' awful good raggedy-man? 

J. W. Riley, The Raggedy-man 

Ragings. — Think when your castigated pulse 
Gi'es now and then a wallop, 
What ragings must his veins convulse, 
That still eternal gallop. 

Burns, Address to the Unco Guid, st. 4 

Railing. — ■ Railing and praising were his usual themes ; 
And both, to show his judgment, in extremes : 
So over violent, or over civil, 
That every man with him was God or Devil. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 

555-558 
Rail-splitter. — To make me own this hind of princes peer, 
This rail-splitter a true-born king of men. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 5 

Rain. — 'T will surely rain; I see with sorrow 
Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow. 

Edward Jenner, Signs of Rain 



Rain — Raven 325 

I list to this refrain 
Which is played upon the shingles 
By the patter of the rain. 

Coates Kinney, Rain On the Roof 

The rain it raineth every day. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 2; Twelfth Night, v 

Rake. — Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take; 
But every woman is at heart a rake : 
Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; 
But ev'ry lady would be queen for life. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, lines 215-218 

Rascals. — All the cankers wasting town and state, 
The mob of rascals, little thieves and great, 
Dealers in watered milk and watered stocks, 
Who lead us lambs to pasture on the rocks, 
Shepherds — Jack Sheppards — of their city flocks — 
The rings of rogues that rob the luckless town, 
Those evil angels creeping up and down 
The Jacob's ladder of the Treasury stairs, 
Not stage, but real, Turpins and Macaires. 

Holmes, Address for the Opening of the Fifth 

Avenue Theatre, New York, st. 11 

Rat. — Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat; 
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate." 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 821, 822 

What if my house be troubled with a rat 
And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats 
To have it baned. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Rats. The very rats 

Instinctively had quit it. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

Raven. — Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a 
flirt and flutter, 
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of 

yore. 
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped 

or stayed he, 
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my cham- 
ber door — 
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber 
door — 

Perched, and sat, and nothing more. 

Poe, The Raven, st. 7 



326 Raven — Reaper 

The raven doth not hatch a lark. 

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ii, 3 

Did ever raven sing so like a lark? Ibid., hi, 1 

The raven croaked as she sat at her meal, 
And the old woman knew what he said ; 

And she grew pale at the raven's tale, 
And sickened and went to her bed. 

Southey, The Old Woman of Berkeley, st. 1 

Ravens. He that doth the ravens feed, 

Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 3 

Razors. — A fellow in a market-town, 

Most musical, cried razors up and down, 
And offered twelve for eighteen pence; 

"Friend," quoth the razor-man, "I 'm not a knave; 
As for the razors you have bought, 
Upon my soul, I never thought 
That they would shave." 

"Not think they'd shave!" quoth Hodge, with wonder- 
ing eyes, 
And voice not much unlike an Indian yell; 
"What were they made for, then, you dog? " he cries. 
"Made," quoth the fellow with a smile, — "to sell." 
John Wolcot ("Peter Pindar") The Razor- 
Seller, st. 1, 8 

Read. A worthy gentleman, 

Exceedingly well read. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Reading. — Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready 
man; and writing an exact man. 

Bacon, Essay L: Of Studies 

Reaper. — The hand of the reaper 

Takes the ears that are hoary, 
But the voice of the weeper 

Wails manhood in glory. 
The autumn winds rushing 

Waft the leaves that are serest, 
But our flower was in flushing 
When blighting was nearest. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto III, xvi, st. 2 



Reason — Reasons 327 

Reason. — I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, 
The reason why I cannot tell ; l 
But this alone I know full well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. 

Tom Brown (following classical and other authors) 

Reason is the light of the law ; 2 nay, the common law 
itself is nothing but reason. . . . The law which is 
perfection of reason. 

Sir Edward Coke, Institutes, I, 976 

What can we reason, but from what we know? 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, line 18 

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl 
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Satire i, 

lines 127, 128 
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, 
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

If with the sap of reason you would quench, 
Or but allay, the fire of passion. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 1 

Reason the root, fair faith is but the flower; 
The fading flower shall die ; but reason lives 
Immortal. — Young, Night Thoughts, IV, lines 752-754 

Reasons. — If reasons were as plentiful [plenty] as black- 
berries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. 
Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing . . . His 
reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of 
chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and 
when you have them, they are not worth the search. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, r 

1 1 love thee and hate thee, but if I can tell 

The cause of my love and my hate, may I die. 
I can feel it, alas! I can feel it too well, 

That I love thee and hate thee, but cannot tell why. 

T. Moore, in note to Fragment of Odes of Anacreon 

So can I give no reason, nor I will not, 

More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

I have no other but a woman's reason: 
I think him so because I think him so. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 2 

2 Reason is the soul of the law; the reason of the law being changed, the 
law is also changed. 7 Coke's King's Bench Report, 7 

Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason. 
Sir J. Powell, Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld Raym., 912 



328 Rebellion — Refusal 

Rebellion. — Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. 

Inscription on a cannon near the burial-place of 
John Bradshaw, cited by Stiles, History of 

the Three Judges of King Charles I 

Rebels. — Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects 
are rebels from principle. 

Burke, On the French Revolution 

Rebuff. Welcome each rebuff 

That turns earth's smoothness rough, 
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go ! 
Be our joys three parts pain! 
Strive, and hold cheap the strain; 

Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the 
throe! R. Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra, st. 6 

Reckless. — Thus from your presence forth I go, 
A lost and lonely man; 
Reckless alike of weal or woe, 

Heaven's benison or ban : 
He who has known the tempest's worst, 1 

May bare him to the blast ; 
Blame not these tears ; they are the first — 

Are they the last ? Praed, The Last, St. 6 

I am one, my liege, 
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world 
Have so incensed that I am reckless what 
I do to spite the world. — Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, i 

Redeemer. — For sure he must be sainted man, 
Whose blessed feet have trod the ground 
Where the Redeemer's tomb is found. 

Scott, Marmion, v, 21 

Redress. — Ring in redress to all mankind. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 3 

Refusal. — Who listens once will listen twice : 
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, 
And one refusal no rebuff. Byron, Mazeppa, st. 6 

1 Through many a clime 't is mine to go, 
With many a retrospection cursed; 
And all my solace is to know, 

Whate'er betides, I've known the worst. 

What is that worst? Nay, do not ask — 

In pity from the search forbear: 
Smile on — nor venture to unmask 

Man's heart, and view the hell that's there. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 84 (8, 9) 



Refuse — Religion 329 

Refuse. — For ane I '11 get better, it 's waur I '11 get ten — 
I was daft to refuse the Laird o' Cockpen. 

Lady Nairne, The Laird o' Cockpen, st. 8 

Reign. — Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, 
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: 
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 261-263 

How monarchs die is easily explained, 

And thus it might upon the tomb be chiselled ; 

"As long as George the Fourth could reign he reigned, 
And then he mizzled." 

Hood, Epigram on a Royal Demise 

Rejoice. — Rejoice, and men will seek you; 
Grieve, and they turn and go; 
They want full measure of all your pleasure, 
But they do not need your woe. 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, st. 2 

Religion. — For his religion, it was fit 
To match his learning and his wit ; 
'Twas Presbyterian, true blue; 
For he was of that stubborn crew 
Of errant saints, whom all men grant 
To be the true Church Militant ; 
Such as do build their faith upon 
The holy text of pike and gun; 
Decide all controversies by 
Infallible artillery; 
And prove their doctrine orthodox 
By apostolic blows and knocks; 
Call fire, and sword, and desolation, 
A godly, thorough Reformation, 
Which always must be carried on 
And still be doing, never done; 
As if religion were intended 
For nothing else but to be mended. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 189-206 

My little woman, said Mr. Snagsby, likes to have her 
religion rather sharp. Dickens, Bleak House, xix 

And this was all the religion he had, — 

To treat his engine well; 
Never be passed on the river; 

To mind the pilot's bell; 
And if ever the Prairie Belle took fire, — 

A thousand times he swore, 
He 'd hold her nozzle agin the bank 

Till the last soul got ashore. 

John Hay, Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle, st. 3 



33° Religion — Remember 

I don't go so much on religion, 

I never ain't had no show; 
But I 've got a middlin' tight grip, sir, 

On the handful o' things I know. 
I don't pan out on the prophets, 

And free-will, and that sort of thing, — 
But I b'lieve in God and the angels, 

Ever sence one night last spring. 

John Hay, Little Breeches, st. i 

With sweet kind natures, as in honeyed cells, 

Religion lives, and feels herself at home; 

But only on a formal visit dwells 

Where wasps instead of bees have formed the comb. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 32 

Now conscience chills her, and now passion burns ; 

And atheism and religion take their turns; 

A very heathen in the carnal part, 

Yet still a sad, good Christian at her heart. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, lines 65-68 

In religion, 
What damned error, but some sober brow 
Will bless it and approve it with a text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

Religions. — Even gods must yield — religions take their turn : 
'Twas Jove's — 'tis Mahomet's — and other creeds 
Will rise with other years, till man shall learn 
Vainly his incense soars, his victim bleeds; 
Poor child of doubt and death, whose hope is built on 
reeds. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 3 

Remedies. — Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to heaven. 

Shakespeare, All 's Well That Ends Well, i, 1 

Remedy. — The remedy is worse than the disease. 

Dryden, Juvenal, Satire xvi, line 31 

Remember. — I sit beside my lonely fire, 
And pray for wisdom yet : 
For calmness to remember, 
Or courage to forget. 

Hamilton Aide, Remember or Forget, st. 4 

I remember, I remember, 
The house where I was born, 
The little window where the sun 
Came peeping in at morn; 



Remember 331 

He never came a wink too soon 
Nor brought too long a day, 
But now I often wish the night 
Had borne my breath away! 

I remember, I remember, 

The fir-trees dark and high; 

I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky: 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 'tis little joy 

To know I 'm farther off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 1 

Hood, / Remember, I Remember, st. i, 4 

Other arms may press thee, 
Dearer friends caress thee, 
All the joys that bless thee, 

Sweeter far may be ; 
But when friends are nearest, 
And when joys are dearest, 

Oh ! then remember me ! 

T. Moore, Go Where Glory Waits Thee, st. 1 

Remember thee! 
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 
In this distracted globe. Remember thee! 
Yea, from the table [tables] of my memory 
I '11 wipe away all trivial fond records, 
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 
That youth and observation copied there ; 
And thy commandment all alone shall live 
Within the book and volume of my brain, 
Unmixed with baser matter. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

1 There was a time when I was very small, 

When my whole frame was but an ell in height. 

Then seemed to me this world far less in size, 
Likewise it seemed to me less wicked far. 

They perished, the blithe days of boyhood perished, 

And all the gladness, all the peace I knew! 
Now have I but their memory, fondly cherished; 

God! may I never lose that too! Longfellow, Childhood, from 

the Danish of J. I. Baggesen, st. i, 3, 9 
I remember — I remember 

How my childhood fleeted by, — 
The mirth of its December, 

And the warmth of its July ; 
On my brow, love — on my brow, love, 

There are no signs of care; 
But my pleasures are not now, love, 

What childhood's pleasures were. 

Praed, I Remember, I Remember, st. 1 



3 3 2 Remote — R equiem 

Remote. — Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. 

Goldsmith, The Traveller, st. i 

Removes. — Three removes are as bad as a fire. 

Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 

Remuneration. — Remuneration! Oh! that 's the Latin word 
for three farthings: . . . Remuneration! why, it is a 
fairer name than French crown. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, iii 

Repentance. — He who seeks repentance for the past 
Should woo the angel Virtue in the future! 

E. G. Bulwer-Lytton, The Lady of Lyons, v, 2 

Is there no place 
Left for repentance, none for pardon left? 
None left but by submission. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 79-81 

Who by repentance is not satisfied 
Is nor of heaven nor earth. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4 

Reproof. — Fear not the anger of the wise to raise ; 
Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism,, lines 582, 583 

That man is not alive 
Might so have tempted him as you have done, 
Without the taste of danger and reproof. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Reptile. — Every foul bird comes abroad and every dirty 
reptile rises up. Lincoln, Letter to C. D. Drake, 

Oct. 5, 1863 

Reputation. — At ev'ry word a reputation dies. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii, line 16 
My reputation is at stake; 1 
My fame is shrewdly gored. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 

Requiem. — A requiem for the chief, 
Whose fiat millions slew, 
The soaring eagle of the Alps, 

The crushed at Waterloo: 
The banished who returned, 
The dead who rose again, 
And rode in his shroud the billows proud 
To the sunny banks of Seine. 

L. H. Sigourney, The Return of Napoleon 

from St. Helena, st. 8 

1 Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, 
and what remains is bestial. Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 



Resign— Rest 333 

Resign. — With a sigh I resign 

What I once thought was mine, 
And forgive her deceit with a tear. 

Byron, The Tear, st 9 

Resolute. — The star of the unconquered will, 
He rises in my breast, 
Serene, and resolute, and still, 
And calm, and self-possessed. 

Longfellow, Light of the Stars, st. 7 

Rest. — Peace waits us on the shores of Acheron : 

There no forced banquet claims the sated guest, 
But silence spreads the couch of ever -welcome rest * 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 7 

Absence of occupation is not rest ; 2 

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. 

Cowper, Retirement 

Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of 
the trees. — Stonewall Jackson, Last Words, quoted 

in J. E. Cooke, Life of Stonewall Jackson, xxxviii 

For some we loved, the loveliest and the best 
That from his Vintage rolling Time has pressed, 
Have drunk their cup a round or two before, 
And one by one crept silently to rest. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 22 

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

Silvia. And so, good rest. 

Proteus. As wretches have o'ernight 

That wait for execution in the morn. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv, 2 

I am sick of Time, 
And I desire to rest. 

Tennyson, Come Not When I Am Dead, st. 2 

1 There is a calm for those who weep, 
A rest for weary pilgrims found, 
They softly lie and sweetly sleep 

Low in the ground. James Montgomery, The Grave, st. 1 

2 Rest is not quitting 

The busy career; 
Rest is the fitting 

Of self to its sphere. J. S. Dwight, True Rest, st. 4 



334 Rest — Revenge 

For ever and for ever, all in a blessed home — 
And there to wait a little while till you and Effie come — 
To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast — 
And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are 
at rest. 1 

Tennyson, The May Queen, Conclusion, st. 15 

Resting-place. — Yet not to thine eternal resting-place 
Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish 
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down 
With patriarchs of the infant world, — with kings, 2 
The powerful of the earth, — the wise, the good, 
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, 
All in one mighty sepulchre. 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, lines 31-37 

Rests. — So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, 
What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame. 
How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not, 
To whom related, or by whom begot; 
A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! 

Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, lines 69-74 

Retreat. — Let us make an honourable retreat ; though not 
with bag and baggage. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

Return. — You know how little while we have to stay, 
And, once departed, may return no more. 3 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 3 

Revelry. — There was a sound of revelry by night, 
And Belgium's capital had gathered then 
Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright 
The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; 
A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when 
Music arose with its voluptuous swell, 
Soft eyes looked love to eyes that spake again, 
And all went merry as a marriage -bell; 
But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 21 

Revenge. — A man that studieth revenge keeps his own 

wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. 

Bacon, Essay IV: Of Revenge 

Sweet is revenge — especially to women. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 124 

1 There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary be at rest. 

Job iii, 17 

2 Kings have no such couch as thine, 

As the green that folds thy grave. Tennyson, A Dirge, st. 6 

3 And once departed come no more. Longfellow, A Fragment, st. 1 



Revenge— Rhyme 335 

The fairest action of our human life 
Is scorning to revenge an injury: 
For who forgives without a further strife 
His adversary's heart to him doth tie: 
And 'tis a firmer conquest truly said 
To win the heart than overthrow the head. 

Lady Elizabeth Carew, Revenge of Injuries, 

(from The Tragedy of Marian) 

Revenge, at first though sweet, 
- Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, lines 171, 172 

Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, 
With Ate by his side come hot from hell, 
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice 
Cry "Havoc! " and let slip the dogs of war. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 1 

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 1 

Patience is the honest man's revenge. 

Cyril Tourneur, The Atheist's Tragedy, v, 2 

Reverence. — But yesterday the word of Caesar might 
Have stood against the world; now lies he there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

Rhetoric. — For rhetoric, he could not ope 
His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 81, 82 

Rhyme. — For rhyme the rudder is of verses, 

With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 463, 464 

Those that write in rhyme still make 

The one verse for the other's sake; 

For one for sense, and one for rhyme, 

I think 's sufficient at one time. Ibid., II, i, lines 27-30 

I '11 rhyme you so eight years together. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

Neither rhyme nor reason. 1 Ibid. 

1 'T is hard to fit the reason to the rhyme. — ■ Dryden, Art of Poetry, line 328 
Valentine. How now, sir! what are you reasoning with yourself? 
Speed. Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 1 
I was promised on a time, 
To have reason for my rhyme; 
From that time unto this season, 
I received nor rhyme nor reason. 

Spenser, Lines on His Promised Pension 



336 Rhyme— Riches 

As much love in rhyme 
As would be crammed up in a sheet of paper, 
Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, 
That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour 's Lost, v, 2 

Rhymes. — Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, 
But ring the fuller minstrel in. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 5 

Rhyming. — I was not born under a rhyming planet. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 2 

Rialto. — What news on the Rialto? 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3; iii, 1 

Riband. — Just for a handful of silver he left us, 
Just for a riband to stick in his coat. 

R. Browning, The Lost Leader, lines 1, 2 

Rich. — A man he was to all the country dear, 
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 10 

If thou art rich, thou 'rt poor ; 
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, 
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, 
And death unloads thee. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iii, 1 

^when thou art old and rich, 
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, 
To make thy riches pleasant. Ibid. 

Rage canine of dying rich; 
Guilt's blunder! and the loudest laugh of hell. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, lines 108, 109 

Riches. — Riches make them wings, and they 

Do as an eagle fly away. 1 Holmes, After the Fire 

Let none admire 
That riches grow in Hell; that soil may best 
Deserve the precious bane. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 690-692 

What riches give us, let us then inquire? 

Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, 

and fire. 
Is this too little? 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, lines 79-81 



[ Prov. xxiii, 5. 



Richmonds — Right 337 

Richmonds. — I think there be six Richmonds in the field ; 
Five have I slain to-day instead of him. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 4 

Ride.--- An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 4 

Rift. — It is the little rift within the lute, 

That by and by will make the music mute, 
And ever widening slowly silence all. 

The little rift within the lover's lute, 
Or little pitted speck in garnered fruit, 
That rotting inward slowly moulders all. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, lines 388-393 

Right. — One who never turned his back, but marched breast 
forward, 
Never doubted clouds would break, 
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would 

triumph, 
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, 
Sleep to wake. 

R. Browning, Asolando, Epilogue, st. 3 

Blest, too, is he who can divine 

Where real right doth lie, 
And dares to take the side that seems 

Wrong to man's blindfold eye. 

For right is right, since God is God; \ 

And right the day must win; 
To doubt would be disloyalty, 

To falter would be sin. 

F. W. Faber, The Right Must Win 

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that 
faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we under- 
stand it. Lincoln, Address at Cooper Institute, 

New York, Feb. 27, i860 

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with 
firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind 
up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have 
borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — 
to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and last- 
ing peace among ourselves, and with all nations. 

Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 

March 4, 1865 
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; 
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 



338 Right— Ring 

All discord, harmony not understood; 
All partial evil, universal good: 
And, spite of pride, in erring Reason's spite, 
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 

Pope, Essay on Alan, Epistle i, lines 289-294; 

Epistle iv, lines 145, 394 
God and our right! 1 Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 

Follow you the star that lights a desert pathway, yours 

or mine. 
Forward, till you see the Highest Human Nature is divine. 

Follow Light, and do the Right — for man can half- 

control his doom — 
Till you find the deathless Angel seated in the vacant 

tomb. Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years 

After, lines 275-278 

Rights. — They made and recorded a sort of institute and 
digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. 

Burke, Speech on the Army Estimates, February, 1790 

The}' have rights who dare maintain them. 

Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 17 

Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his 
right to do as he likes with his property or his labour, so 
long as he does not infringe the rights of others. 

Theodore Roosevelt, Message to Congress, 

January, 1904 
Ring. — Your wedding-ring wears thin, dear wife; ah, sum- 
mers not a few, 
Since I put it on your finger first, have passed o'er me 

and you; 
And, love, what changes we have seen, — what cares and 

pleasures, too, — 
Since you became my own dear wife, when this old ring 
was new! 

W. C. Bennett, The Worn Wedding Ring, st. 1 

I '11 tell you a story that 's not in Tom Moore : — 
Young Love likes to knock at a pretty girl's door: 
So he'called upon Lucy — 'twas just ten o 'clock — 
Like a spruce single man, with a smart double knock. 

The meeting was bliss ; but the parting was woe ; 
For the moment will come when such comers must go: 
So she kissed him, and whispered — poor innocent thing — 
"The next time you come, love, prav come with a ring." 
Hood, Please to Ring the Belle 

1 God defend the right! Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

Heaven still guards the right. Ibid., iii, a 



Ringlet — Roar 339 

Ring out the old, ring in the new. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 2 

Ring out a slowly dying cause, 

And ancient forms of party strife. Ibid., st. 4 

Ringlet. — [He] preferred in his heart the least ringlet that 
curled 
Down her exquisite neck to the throne of the world. 

T. Moore, Lalla Rookh: The Light of the Harem 

Rival. — Light me another Cuba ; I hold to my first -sworn 
vows, 
If Maggie will have no rival, I '11 have no Maggie for 
spouse. 1 Kipling, The Betrothed, st. 26 

Rivals. — Of all the torments, all the cares, 
With which our lives are cursed; 
Of all the plagues a lover bears, 
Sure rivals are the worst ! 

W. Walsh, Rivalry in Love 

River. — Over the river they beckon to me, 

Loved ones who 've crossed to the farther side. 
The gleam of their snowy robes I see, 

But their voices are lost in the dashing tide. 

N. A. W. Priest, Over the River 

Rivulets. — Even as rivulets twain, from distant and separate 

sources, 
Seeing each other afar, as they leap from the rocks, and 

pursuing 
Each one its devious path, but drawing nearer and 

nearer, 
Rush together at last, at their trysting-place in the 

forest ; 
So these lives that had run thus far in separate channels, 
Coming in sight of each other, then swerving and flowing 

asunder, 
Parted by barriers strong, but drawing nearer and 

nearer, 
Rushed together at last, and one was lost in the other. 
Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, viii, 

lines 94-101 

Roar. — I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove ; I will 
roar you an 'twere any nightingale. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, i, 2 

x The ardent flame of love 

My bosom cannot char, 

I smoke, but do not burn, 

So I have my cigar. Hood, The Cigar, st. 13 



340 Robbed — Rocks 

Robbed. — He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know 't, and he 's not robbed at all. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 
Robe. My rObe, 

And my integrity to heaven, is all 
I dare now call my own. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Robin Adair. — Come to my heart again, 
Robin Adair; 
Never to part again, 

Robin Adair; 
And if thou still art true, 
I will be constant too, 
And will wed none but you, 
Robin Adair! 

Lady Caroline Keppel, Robin Adair 

Rock. — Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, 
Make me a child again just for to-night! 
Mother, come back from the echoless shore, 
Take me again to your heart as of yore ; 
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, 
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; 
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, — 
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep! 

E. A. Allen, Rock Me to Sleep, st. 1 
"Rock of ages, cleft for me," 

'Twas a woman sung them now, 
Pleadingly and prayerfully; 

Every word her heart did know. 
Rose the song as storm-tossed bird 

(Beats with weary wing the air, 
Every note with sorrow stirred, 
Every syllable a prayer, — 
"Rock of ages, cleft for me, 
Let me hide myself in thee." 

E. H. Rice, "Rock of Ages" 
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abun- 
dant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the 
dead corpse of public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. 
Daniel Webster, Speech on Alexander Hamilton 

Rocket. — And the final event to himself [Mr. Burke] has been 
that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. 

Thomas Paine, Letter to the Addressers 
Rocks. — Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent 
To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent; 
Nor should the individual who happens to be meant 
Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent. 

Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus, st. 6 



Rod — Romans 341 

Rod. — Severe by rule, and not by nature mild, 

He never spoils the child and spares the rod, 
But spoils the rod and never spares the child, 
And so with holy rule deems he is reconciled. 

Hood, The Irish Schoolmaster, st. 12 

And wilt thou . . . kiss the rod? 1 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, v, 1 

Rogue. — Damnable both-sides rogue. 

Shakespeare, All 's Well That Ends Well, iv, 3 

A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Roller. — The league-long roller thundering on the reef. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 580 

Roman. — Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 15 [13] 

Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? 2 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

This was the noblest Roman of them all. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, v, 5 

Romans. — For Romans in Rome's quarrels 
Spared neither land nor gold, 
Nor son nor wife, nor limb nor life, 
In the brave days of old. 

Then none was for a party; 

Then all were for the state ; 
Then the great man helped the poor, 

And the poor man loved the great : 
Then lands were fairly portioned; 

Then spoils were fairly sold: 
The Romans were like brothers 

In the brave days of old. 

Macau lay, Hor alius, st. 31, 32 

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

1 Whate'er thy lot, — whoe'er thou be, — 
Confess thy folly, — kiss the rod, 
And in thy chastening sorrows see 

The hand of God. James Montgomery, The Grave, st. 24 

How wayward is this foolish love, 
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, 
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod! 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 2 
2 Cf. speech of Lord Palmerston in the Don Pacifico case, cited by Justin 
McCarthy, History of Our Own Times, xix. 



342 Rome— Rose 

Rome. — Rome shall perish — write that word 
In the blood that she has spilt ; 
Perish, hopeless and abhorred, 

Deep in ruin as in guilt. Cowper, Boadicea, st. 4 

Rome, Rome ! thou art no more 

As thou hast been! 
On thy seven hills of yore 

Thou sat'st a queen. 

Felicia Hemans, Roman Girl's Song, st. 1 

The holy Church, 
The great metropolis and see of Rome. 

Shakespeare, King John, v, 2 

Romeo. — O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Rose. — The rose that all are praising 
Is not the rose for me. 

T. H. Bayly, The Rose That All Are Praising 

.'Tis the last rose of summer 

Left blooming alone; 1 
All her lovely companions 

Are faded and gone. 

T. Moore, The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1 

"Would," thought he, as the picture grows, 
"Ion its stalk had left the rose ! 
Oh, why should man's success remove 
The very charms that wake his love? " 2 

Scott, Marmion, iii, st. 17 

1 One rose of the wilderness left on its stalk, 

To mark where a garden had been. Campbell, Lines Written 

on Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire, st. 2 

The one red leaf, the last of its clan. 

S. T. Coleridge, Christabel, I, line 49 

One sad, ungathered rose 
On my ancestral tree. Holmes, My Aunt, st. 6 

Earthlier happy is the rose distilled, 
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn 
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, i, 1 

2 The butterfly from flower to flower 

The urchin chased; and, when at last 
He caught it in my lady's bower, 

He cried, ' 'Ha, Ha!" and held it fast. 

Awhile he laughed, but soon he wept, 

When looking at the prize he'd caught 
And found he had to ruin swept 

The very glory he had sought. Joseph Skipsey, The Butterfly 



Rose — Roses 343 

He that sweetest rose will find 
Must find love's prick and Rosalind. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming, 
Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring; 
You ask me why her breath is sweet, and why her cheek 

is blooming: 
It is because the sun is out and birds begin to sing. 

Thackeray, The Rose upon My Balcony, st. 1 

Go, lovely rose! 
Tell her, that wastes her time and me, 

That now she knows, 
When I resemble her to thee, 
How sweet and fair she seems to be. 

Waller, Go, Lovely Rose, st. 1 

Rosebud. — A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, 
And sweet as English air could make her, she. 

Tennyson, The Princess, Prologue, lines 153, 154 

Rosebuds. — Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 1 
Old Time is still a -flying; 
And this same flower that smiles to-day, 
To-morrow will be dying. 

Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time 

Rosemary. — There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. 2 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Roses. — There is a garden in her face, 
Where roses and white lilies blow. 

Richard Allison, An Houre's Recreation in Musicke 

She wore a wreath of roses 
The night that first we met. 

T. H. Bayly, She Wore a Wreath of Roses, st. 1 

Poor Peggie hawks nosegays from street to street, 
Till — think of that, who find life so sweet! — ■ 
She hates the smell of roses ! - 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Birth 

Fresh -blown roses washed in dew. 3 

Milton, L' Allegro, line 22 

J Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered. 

Solomon, Wisdom, ii, 8 
2 For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep 

Seeming and savour all the winter long : 

Grace and remembrance' be to you both, 

And welcome to our shearing. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

3 As clear 
As morning roses newly washed with dew. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii 



344 



Rotten — Running 



Rotten.- 



Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, 



Rove. — We hold our greyhound in our hand, 
Our falcon in our glove ; 
But where shall we find leash or band 

For dame that loves to rove? 
Let the wild falcon soar her swing, 
She '11 stoop when she has tired her wing. 

Scott, Marmion, i, st. 



i7 



Row. 



A darned long row to hoe. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, 



st. 13 



Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, 
The rapids are near and the daylight 's past. 1 

T. Moore, Canadian Boat Song, st. 1 

Rue. — There's rue for you; and here's some for me: we 
may call it herb-grace [herb of grace] o' Sundays. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Ruin. — With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 
Confusion worse confounded. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, II, lines 995, 996 

Rum. — There 's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms 
As rum and true religion. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 34 

Rum I take to be the name which unwashed moralists 
apply alike to the product distilled from molasses and 
the noblest juices of the vineyard. "Burgundy 2 in all 
its sunset glow" is rum. Champagne, soul of "the 
foaming grape of Eastern France," is rum. Hock, which 
our friend, the Poet, speaks of as — 

"The Rhine's breastmilk, gushing cold and bright, 
Pale as the moon, and maddening as her light " 3 
— is rum. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 

Running. In running, every pace 

Is but between two legs a race, 
In which both do their uttermost 
To get before, and win the post ; 

1 comrades, hold! the longest reach js past; 
The stream runs swift, and we are flying fast. 

Lampman, Between the Rapids, st. 2 
2 Burgundy in all its sunset glow. Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 180 

3 Holmes, The Banker's Dinner, st. 5. 



Running — Sabbath 345 

Yet when they 're at their races' ends, 
They 're still as kind and constant friends, 
And, to relieve their weariness, 
By turns give one another ease. 

Butler, Hudibras, III, i, lines 895-902 

With that, he gave his able horse the head, 
And, bending forward, struck his armed heels 
Against the panting sides of his poor jade 
Up to the rowel-head, and, starting so, 
He seemed in running to devour the way, 
Staying no longer question. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 1 

Runs. — He that runs may read. 1 

Cowper, Tirocinium, line 80 

Rust. — ■ I were better to be eaten to death with [a] rust than 
to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, 2 

Rusty. — Something to keep our souls from getting rusty. 

Holmes, How Not to Settle It, st. 6 

Sabbath. — Raise not your scythe, suppressors of our vice! 
Reforming saints, too delicately nice! 
By whose decrees, our sinful souls to save, 
No Sunday tankards foam, no barbers shave, 
And beer undrawn and beards unmown display 
Your holy reverence for the Sabbath day. 2 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 

lines 632-637 
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, 
And never broke the Sabbath, but for gain: 
Nor was he ever known an oath to vent, 
Or curse, unless against the government. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 587-590 

*Make it plain upon tables, that he may : 

2 What! shut the Gardens! * lock the latticed gate! 

Refuse the shilling and the Fellow's ticket! 
And hang a wooden notice up to state, 

"On Sundays no admittance at this wicket!" 
The birds, the beasts, and all the reptile race 
Denied to friends and visitors till Monday! 
Now, really, this appears the common case 
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday — 
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy? 

Hood, An Open Question, st. 



: The Zoological Gardens, London. 



346 Sack — Sailor 

Sack. — O monstrous ! but one halfpenny-worth of bread to 
this intolerable deal of sack. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

If I do grow great, 1 11 grow less; for I '11 purge, and 
leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. 

Ibid., v, 4 

Sad. — In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 

To make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 1 

Tis impious, in a good man, to be sad. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, line 676 

Sadder. — A sadder and a wiser man, 
He rose the morrow morn. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 624, 625 

Saddest. — Of all sad words of tongue or pen, 

The saddest are these: "It might have been." 

Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 53 1 

Safety-valve. — So she came tearin' along that night — 
The oldest craft on the line — 
With a nigger squat on her safety-valve, 
And her furnace crammed, rosin and pine. 

John Hay, Jim Bludso, of the Prairie Belle, st. 4 

Sage. — He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. 

James Beattie, The Hermit, st. 1 

Sailor. — Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, 
Ready, with every nod,, to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, iii, 4 

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! 

List, ye landsmen, all to me; 
Messmates, hear a brother sailor 

Smg the dangers of the sea. 

G. A. Stevens, The Storm, st. 1 

J Few poems have been parodied as much as this. The following humour- 
ous imitations are selected as examples of this form of poetical wit: 
If, of all words of tongue and pen, 
The saddest are, "It might have been," 
More sad are these we daily see: 
"It is, but had n't ought to be." 

Bret Harte, Mrs. Judge Jenkins, st. 23, 24 
These words are the saddest of tongue or of pen: 
"Mr. Billings of Louisville touched me for ten." 

Eugene Field, Mr. Billings of Louisville, st 4 



Sailor— Saint 347 

mother, praying God will save 

Thy sailor, — while thy head is bowed, 
His heavy-shotted hammock-shroud 
Drops in his vast and wandering grave. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, vi, st. 4 

The greatest sailor since our world began. 

Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the 

Duke of Wellington, st. 6 

The sailor's wife the sailor's star shall be. 

F. E. Weatherly, Nancy Lee 

Sailors. — Believe not what the landsmen say 

Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind: 
They '11 tell thee, sailors, when away, 
In every port a mistress find. 

J. Gay, Black-Eyed Susan, st. 5 

1 recollect how sailors' rights was won, 
Yard locked in yard, hot gun-lip kissin' gun. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 235, 236 

We know what risks all landsmen run, 

From noblemen to tailors ; 
Then, Bill, let us thank Providence, 

That you and I are sailors. 

William Pitt (of Malta), The Sailor's Consolation 

Saint. I 'm not a saint, 

Not one of those self -constituted saints, 

Quacks — not physicians — in the cure of souls 

Censors who sniff out moral taints, 

And call the devil over his own coals — 

Those pseudo Privy Councillors of God, 

Who write down judgments with a pen hard -nibbed; 

Ushers of Beelzebub's Black Rod, 
Commending sinners, not to ice thick -ribbed, 
But endless flames, to scorch them up like flax, — 
Yet sure of heaven themselves, as if they 'd cribbed 
Th' impression of Saint Peter's keys in wax! 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 2 

Able to corrupt a saint. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 2 

O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, 

With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous 

Is that temptation that doth goad us on 

To sin in loving virtue. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 



348 Saint— Saints 

Kneel undisturbed, fair saint! 
Pour out your praise or plaint 

Meekly and duly; 
I will not enter there, 
To sully your pure prayer 

With thoughts unruly. 

Thackeray, At the Church Gate, st. 4 

Saint Keyne. — A well there is in the West country, 
And a clearer one never was seen ; 
There is not a wife in the West country 
But has heard of the Well of Saint Keyne. 

"'If the husband of this gifted well 

Shall drink before his wife, 
A happy man henceforth is he, 

For he shall be master for life. 

"But if the wife should drink of it first, 

Heaven help the husband then! " 
The stranger stooped to the well of Saint Keyne, 

And drank of the water again. 

Southey, The Well of Saint Keyne, st. 1, 10, 11 

Saint Patrick. — Oh, St. Patrick was a gentleman, 
Who came of decent people; 
He built a church in Dublin town, 

And on it put a steeple. 
His father was a Gallagher; 
His mother was a Brady; 
His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy, 
His uncle an O 'Grady. 

H. Bennett, St. Patrick Was a Gentleman, st. 1 

On the eighth day of March it was, some people say, 
That St. Pathrick at midnight he first saw the day; 
While others declare 't was the ninth he was born, 
And 't was all a mistake between midnight and morn ; 
For mistakes will occur in a hurry and shock, 
And some blamed the babby — and some blamed the 

clock — 
Till with all their cross-questions sure no one could know 
If the child was too fast, or the clock was too slow. 

S. Lover, The Birth of St. Patrick, st. 1 

Saints. Saints will aid if men will call: 

For the blue sky bends over all! 

S. T. Coleridge, Christabel, I, lines 330, 331 



Saints — Sands 349 

We are n't no thin red 'eroes, nor we are n't no black- 
guards too, 

But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; 

An' if sometimes our conduck is n't all your fancy paints : 

Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster 
saints. Kipling, Tommy 

Salad. — Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see 
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree. 

Goldsmith, Retaliation, st. i 

My salad days, 
When I was green in judgment. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 5 

To make this condiment your poet begs 

The pounded yellow of two hard-boiled eggs; 

Two boiled potatoes, passed through kitchen sieve, 

Smoothness and softness to the salad give; 

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, 

And, half suspected, animate the whole; 

Of mordant mustard add a single spoon, 

Distrust the condiment that bites too soon; 

But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault 

To add a double quantity of salt. 

Four times the spoon with oil from Lucca crown, 

And twice with vinegar, procured from town; 

And lastly, o'er the flavoured compound toss 

A magic soup con of anchovy sauce. 

O green and glorious! O herbaceous treat! 

'T would tempt the dying anchorite to eat ; 

Back to the world he 'd turn his fleeting soul, 

And phmge his fingers in the salad-bowl ; 

Serenely full, the epicure would say, 

"Fate cannot harm me, — I have dined to-day.'.' 

Sydney Smith, Recipe for Salad 

Salt. — I have eaten your bread and salt, 
I have drunk your water and wine, 
The deaths ye died I have watched beside, 
And the lives that ye led were mine. 

Kipling, Departmental Ditties, Prelude, st. 1 

Samaritan. — Yes! you find people ready enough to do the 
Samaritan without the oil and the twopence. 

Sydney Smith, Wit and Wisdom: Table Talk 



Sands. — Come unto these yellow sands. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 (Ariel's Song) 



35° Sandstone— Savage 

Sandstone. — Then Abner Dean, of Angel's, rose to a point of 
order, when 
A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen, 
And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on 

the floor 
And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more. 
Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus, st. 7 

Sandwich. — How Shem's proud children reared the Assyrian 
piles, 
While Ham's were scattered through the Sandwich Isles. 
Holmes, A Modest Request, The Speech, lines 21, 22 

Sarcastic. — He was a most sarcastic man, this quiet Mr. 
Brown, 
And on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. 
Bret Harte, The Society upon the Stanislaus, st. 5 

Satan. Satan trembles when he sees 

The weakest saint upon his knees. 

Cowper, Exhortation to Prayer, st. 3 

Satire. — Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, line 6 

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, 
Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen. 

Lady M. W. Montagu, To the Imitator of the 

First Satire of Horace, ii 

Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet 
To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. 

Pope, Horace, II, Satire i, line 69 

Savage. — I am as free as nature first made man, 
Ere the base laws of servitude began, 
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 

Dryden, The Conquest of Granada, I, i, 1 

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky 
race. 

Iron-jointed, supple-sinewed, they shall dive, and they 

shall run, 
Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in 

the sun; 

Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of 

the brooks, 
Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 168-172 



Saviour — Schnapps 35 » 

Saviour. — Owning her weakness, 
Her evil behaviour, 
And leaving, with meekness, 
Her sins to her Saviour! 

Hood, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 18 

Say. — Though I say it that should not say it. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit at Several 
Weapons, ii, 2; Fielding, The Miser, Hi, 2; Cib- 
ber, Rival Fools, ii; Fall of British Tyranny, iv, 2 

Scaffold. — He is coming! he is coming! 
Like a bridegroom from his room, 
Came the hero from his prison 

To the scaffold and the dOom. 
There was glory on his forehead, 

There was lustre in his eye, 

And he never walked to battle 

More proudly than to die. 

W. E. Aytoun, The Execution of Montrose, st. 15 

Scale. — A feather will turn the scale. 1 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, iv, 2 

Scandal. — No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope. 

R. B. Sheridan, The Critic, ii, 1 

Scandals. — Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. 
Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 31 

There 's a lust in man no charm can tame 
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; 
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, 
While virtuous actions are but born and die. 

Stephen Harvey, Juvenal's Satire, ix 

Scars. — He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Scattered — All are scattered now and fled, 
Some are married, some are dead. 

Longfellow, The Old Clock on the Stairs, st. 8 

Schnapps. — Und he gife dem moral lessons, 
How pefore de battle pops: 
"Take a liddle brayer to Himmel, 
Und a goot long trink of schnapps." 

C. G. Leland, Brettmann in Bivouac, st. 2 

J The weight of a hair will turn the scales between their avoirdupois. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, ii, 4 



35 2 Schoolboy— Screech-owls 

Schoolboy. — A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 2 

The whining schoolboy, with his satchel 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Schoolmaster. — Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can 
do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a 
personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps 
insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust 
to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in 
full military array. 

Lord Brougham, Speech, Jan. 29, 1828 

Science. — Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a 
youth sublime 
With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of 
Time. Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines n, 12 

Scoff. — Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, 
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 13 

Scornful. — Never a scornful word should grieve ye, 
I 'd smile on ye sweet as the angels do ; — 
Sweet as your smile on me shone ever, 
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true. 

D. M. Mulock Craik, Too Late, st. 2 

Scotch. — Tell them . . . how well I speak of Scotch polite- 
ness, and Scotch hospitality, and Scotch beauty, and of 
everything Scotch, but Scotch oat-cakes, and Scotch 
prejudices. 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, May 27, 1775 

Scotia. — From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, 
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad. 

Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 19 

Scoundrels. — Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever . . . 
crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and nar- 
rowest ways will gravely jot down in diaries the events 
of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor 
account with Heaven, which shall always show a floating 
balance in their own favour. 

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xliv 

Screech-owls. — The time when screech-owls cry, and ban- 
dogs howl, 
And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, i, 4 



Scribbler — Sea 353 

Scribbler. — Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb 
through, 
He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: 
Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, 
The creature 's at his dirty work again, 
Throned in the centre of his thin designs, 
Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines! 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 89-94 

Scripture. — The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 1 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Scruple. — I will not bate thee a scruple. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, ii, 3 

Scruples. — His scruples thus silenced, Tom felt more at ease, 
And went with his comrades the apples to seize; 
He blamed and protested, but joined in the plan: 
He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man. 

Cowper, Pity for Poor Africans, st. 1 1 

Scylla. — When I shun Scylla ... I fall into Charybdis. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 5 

Sea. 2 — We were the first that ever burst 
Into that silent sea. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 105, 106 

Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand, 
The sea is ours, and that defends the land. 
Be, then, the naval stores the nation's care, 
New ships to build, and battered to repair. 

Dryden, Epistle to John Dryden, lines 146-149 

In calm magnificence the sun declined, 

And left a paradise of clouds behind : 

Proud at his feet, with pomp of pearl and gold, 

The billows in a sea of glory rolled. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, i, st. 5 

When the loud trumpet of eternal doom 
Shall break the mortal bondage of the tomb ; 
When with a mother's pangs the expiring earth 
Shall bring her children forth to second birth ; 

1 Satan uses Bible words. — Whittier, The Witch of Wenham, I, st. 14 
2 Cf. Ocean. 



354 Sea 

Sea — Continued 

Then shall the sea's mysterious caverns, spread 
With human relics, render up their dead. 1 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, st. 6 

The sea! the sea! the open sea! 
The blue, the fresh, the ever free! 

B. W. Procter, The Sea, st. i 

A thousand miles from land are we, 
Tossing about on the roaring [stormy] sea. 

B. W. Procter, The Stormy Petrel, st. i 

Like the ocean-bird, our home 
We '11 find far out on the sea. 

Epes Sargent, A Life on the Ocean Wave, st. 2 

The empire of the sea. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 2 

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an 
acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any 
thing. Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 1 

Rolled to starboard, rolled to larboard, when the surge 
was seething free, 

Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-foun- 
tains in the sea. 

Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters — Choric Song, st. 8 

And compassed by the inviolate sea. 

Tennyson, To the Queen 

Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore 
Than ever were lost at sea! 

C. H. Webb, With a Nantucket Shell, st. 4 

1 What hidest thou in thy treasure- caves and cells? 
Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! 
Pale glistening pearls and rainbow-coloured shells, 

Bright things which gleam unrecked of and in vain! — 
Keep, keep thy riches, melancholy sea! 
We ask not such from thee. 

Yet more! the billows and the depths have more! 

High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast! 
They hear not now the booming waters roar, 

The battle thunders will not break their rest. 

To thee the love of woman hath gone down, 

Dark flow thy tides o'er manhood's noble head, 
O'er youth's bright locks, and beauty's flowery crown; 

Yet must thou hear a voice — Restore the dead! 
Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee! — 
Restore the dead, thou sea! 

Felicia Hemans, The Treasures of the Deep, st. 1, 4, 6 



Seamen — Self-approving 355 

Seamen. The church 

And yard are full of seamen's graves, and few- 
Have any names. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers, and a Sermon 

Seas. — Ye gentlemen of England 
That live at home at ease, 
Ah! little do you think upon 
The dangers of the seas. 

Martyn Parker, Ye Gentlemen of England 

See. — Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us 
To see oursel's as others see us! 1 
It wad frae monie a blunder free us 

And foolish notion. Burns, To a Louse, st. 8 

To see and not be seen. — Ben Jonson, Epithala- 
mion, st. 3; Dryden, Ovid's Art of Love, I, line 
109; Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, Letter 71 

Seed. — The seed ye sow, another reaps ; 
The wealth ye find, another keeps; 
The robes ye weave, another wears; 
The arms ye forge, another bears. 

Sow seed, — but let no tyrant reap; 2 
Find wealth, — let no impostor heap; 
Weave robes, — let not the idle wear; 
Forge arms, — in your defence to bear. 

Shelley, Song to the Men of England, St.- 5, 6 

Seeds. — We scatter seeds with careless hand, 

And dream we ne'er shall see them more; 
But for a thousand years 
Their fruit appears, 
In weeds that mar the land, 

Or healthful store. Keble, Example, st. 1 

Seek. 'T is in vain 

To seek him here that means not to be found. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 1 

Seen. Oh, woe is me, 

To have seen what I have seen, see what I see ! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 1 

Self-approving. — One self-approving hour whole years out- 
weighs 
Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 255, 256 

1 Oh, that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and 
make but an interior survey of your good selves. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii, 1 
2 Cf . Worker. 



356 Self-defence — Serpent 

Self-defence. — Self-defence is nature's eldest law. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, line 458 

Selfishness. — Selfishness, Love's cousin. 

Keats, Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, st. 31 

Self-love. — Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 

As self-neglecting. Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 4 

Self-sacrifice. — The long self-sacrifice of life is o'er. 

The great World-victor's victor will be seen no more. 
Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the 

Duke of Wellington, st. 4 

Selleth. — When he that selleth house or land 
Shows leak in roof or flaw in right. 

Holmes, Latter-Day Warnings, st. 2 

Senator. — Brabantio. Thou art a villain. 

Iago. You are — a senator. — Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

Sense. — Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. 

Pope, Umbra, line 16 

Sensible. A sensible man, 

He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; 
He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, 
An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes'. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, iii, st. 1 

Separation. — When, in the course of human events, it be- 
comes necessary for one people to dissolve the political 
bonds which have connected them with another, and to 
assume among the powers of the earth the separate and 
equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's 
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of 
mankind requires that they should declare the causes 
which impel them to the separation. 

Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence 

Serpent. — The trail of the Serpent is over them all! 

T. Moore, Lalla Rookh: Paradise and the Peri 

My serpent of old Nile. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 5 

The serpent that did sting thy father's life 

Now wears his crown. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 



Servant— Sexton 357 

Servant. — Servant of God, well done! 

Milton, Paradise Lost, VI, line 29 
Let me be your servant : 
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; 1 
For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, 
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility; 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. — Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 3 

Served. O Cromwell, Cromwell! 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
I served my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

Serves. — Not thine, nor mine, to question or reply 

When He commands us, asking "how? " or "why? " 
He knows the cause; His ways are wise and just; 
Who serves the King must serve with perfect trust. 

Henry van Dyke, A Legend of Service, st. 6 

Service. — I '11 do the service of a younger man. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 3 

Servitor. — Then rose the dumb old servitor, and the dead, 
Steered [oared] by the dumb, went upward with the flood. 
Tennyson, Launcelot and Elaine, lines 1146, 1147 

Sex. The masculine attire 

In which they roughen to the sense, and all 
The winning softness of their sex is lost. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, lines 576-578 

Sexton. — Nigh to a grave that was newly made, 
Leaned a sexton old on his earth-worn spade; 

A relic of bygone days was he, 
And his locks were white as the foamy sea ; 
And these words came from his lips so thin : 
"I gather them in: I gather them in." 

Park Benjamin, The Old Sexton, st. 1 

O sextant! there are one kermoddity 
Wich's more than gold wich don't cost nothin', 
Wuth more than anything except the sole of man ! 
I mean pewer are, sextant, I mean pewer are. 

Arabella M. Willson, To the Sextant 

1 Old as I am, my lusty limbs appear 
Like winter greens, that flourish all the year. 

Pope, January and Alay, lines 13s, 136 



358 Shadow — Sheepfold 

Shadow. Hence, horrible shadow! 

Unreal mockery, hence! — Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Shadows. — 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadows before. 1 

Thomas Campbell, Lochiel's Warning, st. 5 

Come like shadows, so depart. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 1 

Shaft. — Oh, many a shaft at random sent, 
Finds mark the archer little meant! 
And many a word, at random spoken, 
May soothe or wound a heart that 's broken. 

Scott, Lord of the Isles, Canto v, st. 18 

Shaken. — When taken 
To be well shaken. 
G. Colman, The Younger, The Newcastle Apothecary 

Shakespeare. — Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? 
No, I never read Shikspur. 

Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to 
come. J. Townley, High Life Below Stairs, ii, 1 

Shame. — ■ As Mary rose at Jesus' word, 

Redeemed and white before the Lord! 
Reclaim thy lost soul ! In His name, 
Rise up, and break thy bonds of shame. 

Whittier, A Woman 

Shamed. — Whatever record leap to light 

He never shall be shamed. — Tennyson, Ode on the 

Death of the Duke of Wellington, st. 7 

She. — Whoe'er she be, 

That not impossible she, 

That shall command my heart and me. 

Crashaw, Wishes to His Supposed Mistress, st. 1 

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

Sheepfold. — De massa ob de sheepfol '. 
Dat guards de sheepfol ' bin 
Goes down in de gloomerin' meadows, 
Wha'r de long night rain begin — 
So he le' down de ba's ob de sheepfol ', 
Callin' sof, "Come in! Come in!" 
Callin' sof, "Come in! Come in!" 

1 The spirits 
Of great events stride on before the events. 

S. T. Coleridge, Death of Wallenstein, v. 1, line 101 



Sheepfold— Ship 359 

Den up t'ro' de gloomerin' meadows, 
T'ro' de col' night rain and win', 
And up t'ro' de gloomerin' rain-paf ', 
Wha'r de sleet fa' pie'cin' thin, 
De po' los' sheep ob de sheepfol', 
Dey all comes gadderin' in. 

Sarah Pratt McLean Green, De Sheepfol', st. 2, 3 

Sheet. — A wet sheet and a flowing sea, 
A wind that follows fast 
And fills the white and rustling sail 
And bends the gallant mast. 

A. Cunningham, A Wet Sheet and a 

Flowing Sea, st. 1 

Sheets. — After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play 
with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew 
there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a 
pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 3 

Sheridan. — Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, 
And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan! 

Byron, Monody on the Death of R. B. Sheridan, st. 3 

Shilling. — Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, 
In silken or in leathern purse retains 
A splendid shilling. 

John Philips, The Splendid Shilling 

Ship. — The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, line 21 

As idle as a painted ship 

Upon a painted ocean. Ibid., lines 117, 118 

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is in a gaol, better 
air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; 
and a ship has the additional disadvantage of being in 
danger. 1 Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1776 

Don't give up the ship! — James Lawrence, Excla- 
mation on being wounded on board the ' ' Chesapeake ' ' 

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! 
Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! 

Longfellow, Building of the Ship, st. 25 

1 Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, 
water- thieves and land- thieves, I mean pirates : and then there is the peril 
of waters, winds, and rocks. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 



360 Ship— Shirt 

In case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, 
no captain can do wrong if he places his ship alongside 
that of an enemy. — Horatio, Viscount Nelson, 1 

quoted by Southey, Life of Nelson, ix 

Ships. — I have ships that went to sea 
More than fifty years ago ; 
None have yet come home to me, 
But are sailing to and fro. 2 

R. S. Coffin, Ships at Sea, st. i 

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in 

passing, 
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness; 
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, 
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a 

silence. 3 Longfellow, Elizabeth, iv, lines 1-4 

Spanish sailors with bearded lips, 
And the beauty and mystery of the ships, 
And the magic of the sea. 

Longfellow, My Lost Youth, st. 3 

Shirt. — To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy 
and fill his snuff-box is like giving a pair of laced ruffles 
to a man that has never a shirt on his back. 4 

Tom Brown, Laconics 

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, 

As sages in all times assert; 

The happy man's without a shirt. 

J. Heywood, Be Merry, Friends 

With fingers weary and worn, 

With eyelids heavy and red, 
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, 

Plying her needle and thread — 
Stitch — stitch — stitch ! 

1 Order issued by Nelson before the battle of Trafalgar. Cf. Duty, 
quotation from Nelson; also Fire, quotation from Villeneuve. 

2 To-day a song is on my lips : 

Earth seems a paradise to me: 
For God is good, and, lo, my ships 

Are coming home from sea! G. Arnold, Jubilate, st. 3 

3 And soon, too soon, we part with pain, 

To sail o'er silent seas again. T. Moore, Meeting of the Ships, st. 3 

4 Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; 
It's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. 

Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison, st. 2 



Shirt— Short 361 

In poverty, hunger, and dirt, 
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — 
Would that its tone could reach the rich! — 

She sang this "Song of the Shirt! '^ 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt 

There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company ; and 

the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown 

over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iv, 2 

He always used to wear a shirt 
For thirty days, all seasons, day and night: 
Good man, he knew it was not right 
For dust and ashes to fall out with dirt ; 
And then he only hung it out in the rain, 
And put it on again. Southey, Saint Romania", st. 2 

Shoe. — No man knows so well where the shoe pinches as he 
who wears it. 2 — Lincoln, Letter to Secretary Chase, 

June 28, 1864 

Shoes. — Here 's to the day when it is May, 
And care as light as a feather, 
When your little shoes and my big boots 
Go tramping over the heather. 

Here 's to the night when our delight 

Shall hold the stars in a tether, 
And your little shoes and my big boots 

Are under the bed together. — Bliss Carman, A Toast 

Shop. Miss, the mercer's plague, from shop to shop 

Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks 
The polished counter, and approving none, 
Or promising with smiles to call again. 

Cowper, The Task: Winter Walk at Noon, 

lines 279-282 

Shopkeepers. — To found a great empire for the sole purpose 
of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight 
appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 3 

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, IV, vii, 3 

Short. — This is the short and the long of it. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2 

^'He sang The Song of the Shirt." 

Inscription on Hood's monument in Kensal Green Cemetery 

2 This saying is, of course, proverbial. 

3 A nation of traders. Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, II, 186 



362 Shot— Sick 

Shot. — By the rude bridge that arched the flood, 
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, 
Here once the embattled farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the world. 

Emerson, Concord Hymn, st. 1 

Shout. The inhuman shout which hailed the wretch 

who won. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 140 

Showest. — Have more than thou showest, 
Speak less than thou knowest, 
Lend less than thou west, 
Ride more than thou goest, 
Learn more than thou trowest, 
Set less than thou throwest ; . . . 
And thou shalt have more 
Than two tens to a score. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 4 

Shrew. — The veriest shrew of all. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

Shrieks. — Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, 
When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last; 
Or when rich china vessels fall'n from high, 
In glitt'ring dust and painted fragments lie! 1 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, hi, lines 157-160 

Shroud. When thoughts 

Of the last bitter hour come like a blight 

Over thy spirit, and sad images 

Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, 

And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, 

Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart, — 

Go forth, under the open sky, and list 

To Nature's teachings. 

Bryant, Thanatopsis, lines 8-15 

Sewing at once with a double thread 
A shroud as well as a shirt. 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt 

How swift the shuttle flies, that weaves thy shroud. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, line 810 

Sick. You '11 be sick to-morrow 

For this night's watching. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Jidiet, iv, 4 

1 And mistress of herself, though china fall. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, line 268 



Sickness — Sighs 3 6 3 

Sickness. — I 'm sick of gruel, and the dietetics, 
I 'm sick of pills, and sicker of emetics, 
I 'm sick of pulses' tardiness or quickness, 
I 'm sick of blood, its thinness or its thickness, — 
In short, within a word, I 'm sick of sickness! 

Hood, Fragment, Probably Written during Illness 

Side-curl. — When a young female wears a flat circular side- 
curl, gummed on each temple, — when she walks with a 
male, not arm in arm, but with his arm against the back 
of hers, — and when she says "Yes?" with the note of 
interrogation, you are generally safe in asking her what 
.wages she gets, and who the "feller" was you saw her 
with. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Sides. — Much may be said on both sides. 

H. Fielding, The Covent Garden Tragedy, i, 8 

Sigh. — Here 's a sigh to those who love me, 
And a smile to those who hate; 1 

Byron, To Thomas Moore, st. 2 

What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. 2 
Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 1 

Sighed. — Had sighed to many, though he loved but one, 3 
And that loved one, alas! could ne'er be his. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 5 

Sighed and looked, and sighed again. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, line 113 

Sighs. — My story being done, 

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : 

She swore, in faith, 't was strange, 't was passing strange, 

'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful : 

She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished 

That heaven had made her such a man: she thanked me, 

And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, 

I should but teach him how to tell my story, 

And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake: 

She loved me for the dangers I had passed, 

And I loved her that she did pity them. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

1 With a pardon for the foes who hate, 

And a prayer for those who love us. 

Eliza Cook, Song for the New Year, st. 3 

2 He raised a sigh so piteous and profound 

That [as] it did seem to shatter all his bulk. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 1 
3 He'd sparked it with full twenty gals, 

He'd squired 'em, danced 'em, druv 'em. 
Fust this one, an' then thet, by spells — 

All is, he couldn't love 'em. Lowell, The Courtin', st. 9 



364 Sight — Simplicity- 

sight. — And out of mind, as soon as out of sight. 1 

Lord Brooke, Sonnet Ivi 
Silence. — There was silence deep as death; 

And the boldest held his breath 

For a time. T. Campbell, Battle of the Baltic, st. 2 

Silence, like a poultice, comes 
To heal the blows of sound. 

Holmes, The Music-Grinders, st. 10 
Silence in love bewrays more woe 
Than words, tho' ne'er so witty; 
A beggar that is dumb you know, 
May challenge double pity. 

Raleigh, The Silent Lover, st. 8 
Silk. — And ye sail walk in silk attire, 
And siller hae to spare, 
Gin ye '11 consent to be his bride, 
Nor think o' Donald mair. 

Susanna Blamire, The Siller Croun, st. 1 
Some marrowy crapes of China silk, 
Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. 

Holmes, Contentment, st. 6 
Simile. — One simile, that solitary shines 
In the dry desert of a thousand lines. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle i, 

lines in, 112 
Simon. — The real Simon Pure. 

Susanna Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, v, 1 

Simplicity. — Give me a look, give me a face, 
That makes simplicity a grace: 
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: 
Such sweet neglect more taketh me, 
Than all the adulteries of art ; 
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 3 

Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, i, 1 
She 's modest as ony, and blithe as she 's bonnie, — 

For guileless simplicity marks her its ain; 
And far be the villain, divested of feeling, 

Wha 'd blight in its bloom the sweet flower o' Dum- 
blane. 

R. Tannahill, The Flower o' Dumblane, st. 3 

1 To-day man is; to-morrow he is gone. And when he is out of sight, 
quickly also is he out of mind. 

Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ, I, xxiii, 1 

2 A sweet disorder in the dress 
Kindles in clothes a wantonness : . . . 
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie 

I see a wild civility : 

Do more bewitch me, than when art 

Is too precise in every part. Herrick, Delight in Disorder 



Simplicity — Sin 365 

In the complicated agitation of modern existence, our 
wearied souls dream of simplicity. 

Charles Wagner, The Simple Life, Preface 

Sin. — This uneradicable taint of sin. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 126 

'Twas best, he said, mankind should cease to sin. 

Timothy Dwight, The Smoothe Divine, line 11 
Said I not so, that I would sin no more? 

Witness my God, I did ; 
Yet I am run again upon the score: 
My faults cannot be hid. 

George Herbert, Vows Broken and Renewed, st. 1 

The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by 
one. Kipling, Tomlinson 

Man-like is it to fall into sin, 
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, 
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, 
God-like is it all sin to leave. 

Longfellow, Sin, from the German of F. von Logau 

Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin 
Beset the road I was to wander in, 

Thou wilt not with predestined evil round 
Enmesh, and then impute my fall to sin! 

Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 80 

For Charlie's sake I will arise; 

1 will anoint me where he lies, 
And change my raiment, and go in 
To the Lord's house, and leave my sin 
Without, and seat me at his board, 
Eat, and be glad, and praise the Lord. 
For wherefore should I fast and weep, 
And sullen moods of mourning keep? 

I cannot bring him back, nor he, 

For any calling, come to me. 

The bond the angel Death did sign, 

God sealed — for Charlie's sake, and mine. 

J. W. Palmer, For Charlie's Sake, st. 4 
Water cannot wash away your sin. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iv 
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 1 
God said of old to a woman like me, 

"Go, sin no more," or your Bibles lie; 
But you, you mangle his merciful words 
To "Go, and sin till you die! " 

R. H. Stoddard, On the Town, st. 15 



366 Sin — Sins 

No mercy now can clear her brow 

For this world's peace to pray; 
For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, 

Her woman's heart gave way! — 
But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven 

By man is cursed alway! 

N. P. Willis, Unseen Spirits, st. 5 

Sinful. — A sinful heart makes feeble hand. 

Scott, Marmion, vi, 31 

Sing. — Swans sing before they die, — 'twere no bad thing 
Did certain persons die before they sing. 

S. T. Coleridge, On a Bad Singer 

Single. — Nothing in the world is single, 
All things by a law divine 
In one another's being mingle — - 1 
Why not I with thine? 

Shelley, Love's Philosophy, st. 1 

Oh, fie upon this single life! forego it. 

J. Webster, Duchess of Malfi, iii, 2 

Sink. — Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my 
hand and my heart to this vote. 

Daniel Webster, Eulogy on Adams and 
Jefferson, delivered in Boston, Aug. 2, 1826 

Sinned. Sinned I not 

But in mistaking. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Sinning. I am a man 

More sinned against than sinning. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 2 

Sins. — Compound for sins they are inclined to, 
By damning those they have no mind to. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 215, 216 

When you break up housekeeping, you learn the extent 
of your treasures ; 
Till he begins to reform, no one can number his sins. 
John Hay, Distichs, ix 

Unto each man comes a day when his favourite sins all 
forsake him, 
And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins. 

Ibid., xi 

1 Another reading is : In one spirit meet and mingle. 



Sins— Skull 367 

That frown upon Saint Giles's sins, but blink 
The peccadilloes of all Piccadilly. 1 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 12 

Commit 
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 5 [4] 

Sires. Few sons attain the praise 

Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. 

Pope, The Odyssey, II, lines 315, 316 

Sixpence. — I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned 
first. Canning, The Friend of Humanity and 

the Knife-Grinder, st. 9 

Skies. — They change their skies above them, 
But not their hearts that roam! 

Kipling, The Native-Born, st. 2 

Skimble-skamble.— A deal of skimble-skamble stuff. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Skin. That whiter skin of hers than snow, 

And smooth as monumental alabaster. 

Shakespeare, Othello, v, 2 

Skull.— Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull 2 
Once of ethereal spirit full. 
This narrow cell was Life's retreat; 
This space was Thought's mysterious seat, 
What beauteous visions filled this spot! 
What dreams of pleasure long forgot! 
Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear 
Have left one trace of record here. 

Anonymous, To a Skeleton, st. 1 

1 Piccadilly, 
A place where peccadilloes are unknown. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiii, st. 27 
2 Remove yon skull from out the scattered heaps : 
Is that a temple where a god may dwell? 
Why even the worm at last disdains her shattered cell. 

Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, 
Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: 
Yes this was once ambition's airy hall, 
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul: 
Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole, 
The gay recess of wisdom and of wit, 
And passion's host, that never brooked control: 
Can all, saint, sage, or sophist ever writ, 
People this lonely tower, this tenement refit? 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 5, 6 
The thoughts once chambered there, 
Have gathered up their treasure and are gone. 

Felicia Hemans, Lines to a Butterfly Resting on a Skull, st. 2 
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 



368 Sky— Slayer 

Sky. — The sky, one blue, interminable arch, 

Without a breeze, a wing, a cloud. — James Mont- 
gomery, The Pelican Island, Canto i, st. 2 

That inverted bowl they call the sky. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 72 

Slander. — Where it concerns himself, 

Who 's angry at a slander, makes it true. 

Ben Jonson, Catiline, iii, 1 
'Tis slander, 
Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath 
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie 
All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, 
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave 
This viperous slander enters. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 4 
Slander, meanest spawn of hell 
(And women's slander is the worst). 

Tennyson, The Letters, st. 5 

Slanderous. — Done to death by slanderous tongues. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 3 

Slaughter. — Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, 
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 18 

Slaves. — Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 
Receive our air, that moment they are free; 
They touch our country, and their shackles fall. 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 40—42 

They are slaves who fear to speak 
For the fallen and the weak ; 
They are slaves who will not choose 
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, 
Rather than in silence shrink 
From the truth they needs must thir 
They are slaves who dare not be 
In the right with two or three. 

Lowell, StanzAs on Freedom, st. 4 
Mechanic slaves 
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 

Slayer. — If the red slayer think he slays, 
Or if the slain think he is slain, 
They know not well the subtle ways 
I keep, and pass, and turn again. 

Emerson, Brahma, st. 1 



Sleep 3 6 9 

Sleep. Sleep hath its own world, 

A boundary between the things misnamed 

Death and existence. Byron, The Dream, st. i 

While I am sleeping, I neither fear nor hope, have 
neither pain nor pleasure: and well fare him that in- 
vented sleep, a cloak that covers all human thoughts; 
the food that slakes hunger; the water that quencheth 
thirst; and the fire that warmeth cold; the cold that 
tempers heat; and finally a current coin, with which all 
things are bought, a balance and weight that equals the 
king to the shepherd ; the fool to the wiseman ; only one 
thing (as I have heard) sleep hath ill, which is, that it is 
like death, in that between a man asleep, and a dead 
man, there is little difference. — Cervantes, Don 

Quixote (Tudor Translation, ed Henley), II, lxviii 

O sleep! it is a gentle thing, 
Beloved from pole to pole! 
To Mary Queen the praise be given ! 
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, 
That slid into my soul. 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 292-296 

Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain, 
And never wake to feel the day's disdain. 

Samuel Daniel, Sonnet liv 

We do not know what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and 

still; 
The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek so pale and 

chill; 
The lids that will not lift again, though we may call and 

call; 
The strange, white solitude of peace that settles over all. 
Mary Mapes Dodge, The Two Mysteries, st. 1 

My fevered eyes I dared not close, 

But stared aghast at sleep: 
For sin had rendered unto her 

The keys of hell to keep! 

Hood, The Dream, of Eugene Aram 

Be not afraid, ye doubting [waiting] hearts that weep, 
For God still [still He] giveth his beloved sleep, 
And if an endless sleep he wills, so best. 

Epitaph of T. H. Huxley, from a poem by his 

wife, Henrietta A. Huxley 

O, magic sleep! O comfortable bird, 

That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind 

Till it is hushed and smooth. 

Keats, Endymion, 1, lines 453-455 



37° Sleep — Sleeping 



How calm they sleep beneath the shade 

Who once were weary of the strife, 
And bent, like us, beneath the load 
Of human life! 

Crammond Kennedy, Greenwood Cemetery 

Now I lay me down to take my sleep, 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep: 

If I should die before I wake, 

I pray the Lord my soul to take. — New England Primer 

No boy knows when he goes to sleep. 1 

J. W. Riley, No Boy Knows 

Give me to drink mandragora . . . 

That I might sleep out this great gap of time. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 5 

sleep! gentle sleep! 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down 2 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness? 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 1 

Sleep that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, iii, 2 

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! 3 
He, like the world, his ready visit pays 
Where fortune smiles ; the wretched he forsakes ; 
Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, 
And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 1-5 

Sleeping. — Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand 
Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched: 
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, 
No reckoning made, but sent to my account 
With all my imperfections on my head. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

1 If ignorance be indeed a bliss, 
What blessed ignorance equals this, 

To sleep — and not to know it? — Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Dream 
2 The timely dew of sleep, 
Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines 

Our eyelids. Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 614-616 

Sleep shall neither night or day 
Hang upon his pent-house lid. Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 3 

3 Innocent sleep, 
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shakespeare, Macbeth, ii, 2 



Sleeps — Smile 371 

Sleeps. — He that sleeps feels not the toothache. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, v, 4 

There are a kind of men so loose of soul, 
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iii, 3 

Sleeve. I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 

For daws to peck at. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

Slept. — Then went to bed and slept as sound 

As if I'd paid a note. — Lanier, A Florida Ghost, st. 15 

God's finger touched him, and he slept. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxv, st. 5 

Slippery. So slippery that 

The fear 's as bad as falling. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 3 

Sluggard. — 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him com- 
plain, 
"You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." 

Watts, The Sluggard 

Slumbers. — To all, to each, a fair good night 
And pleasing dreams and slumbers light. 

Scott, Marmion, L'Envoy 

Smart. Leonato. I will be heard. 

Antonio. And shall, or some of us will smart for it. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Smell. — The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, line 450 

A very ancient and fish-like smell. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 2 

Smile. — Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile. 

S. T. Coleridge, Ode to Tranquillity, st. 4 

He smiled as he sat by the table, 
With the smile that was childlike and bland. 

Bret Harte, Plain Language from 

Truthful James, st. 4 

She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, 
With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. 

Scott, Marmion, v, 12 



372 Smitest— Sober 

Smitest. — Man of age, thou smitest sore. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto Hi, st. 10 

Smoky. — Holding these smoky localities responsible for the 
conflagrations within them has a very salutary effect. 
Lincoln, Letter to J. R. Underwood, 

Oct. 26, 1864 
Snake. — We have scotched the snake, not killed it. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 2 

Snakes. — There 's not a mile in Ireland's isle 
Where dirty varmin musters, 
But there he put his dear fore-foot, 
And murdered them in clusters. 
The toads went pop, the frogs went hop, 

Slap-dash into the water; 
And the snakes committed suicide 
To save themselves from slaughter. 

Henry Bennett, St. Patrick Was a Gentleman 

Snapper-up. — A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 3 [2] 

Sneer. — There was a laughing devil in his sneer. 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 9 

Snow. — Now fades the last long streak of snow, 
Now bourgeons every maze of quick. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxv, st. 1 

Snow-flakes. — Where the snow-flakes fall thickest there 's 
nothing can freeze. Holmes, The Boys, st. 2 

Soap. — Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap, 
In imperceptible water. 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Christening 

Sober. — And he that will to bed go sober, 
Falls with the leaf still in October. 

Beaumont and Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, 

ii, 2 (Song) 
If I do not put on a sober habit, 
Talk with respect, and swear but now and then, 
Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely, 
Nay, more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes 
Thus with my hat, and sigh, and say "Amen," 
', Use all the observance of civility, 
, Like one well studied in a sad ostent 

To please his grandam, never trust me more. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 2 



Soiling— Somebody 373 

Soiling. — Soiling another, Annie, will never make one's self 
clean. Tennyson, The Grandmother, st. 9 

Soldier. — Providence and courage never abandon the good 
soldier. 

Coignet, cited by W. M. Sloane, Napoleon 

Bonaparte, III, 248 

When you 're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, 
And the women come out to cut up what remains, 
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains 
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. 

Kipling, The Voting British Soldier, st. 13 

"A soldier of the Union mustered out" 

Is the inscription on an unknown grave 

At Newport News, beside the salt -sea wave, 

Nameless and dateless. 

Longfellow, A Nameless Grave 

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, 

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto i, st. 31 

A soldier, 
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, 
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, 

/Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Soldiers. — The worn white soldiers in khaki dress. 



Who gave up their lives at the Queen's command, 
For the pride of their race, and the peace of the land. 

Kipling, Ballad of Bon Da Thone, st. 6,8 

Solitude. — He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace. 

Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto ii, st. 20 
O Solitude ! where are the charms 
That sages have seen in thy face? 

Cowper, Alexander Selkirk, st. 1 

Solitude sometimes is best society, 

And short retirement urges sweet return. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, lines 249, 250 

Somebody. — Somebody 's courting somebody, 

Somewhere or other to-night; 
Somebody 's whispering to somebody, 
Somebody 's listening to somebody, 

Under this clear moonlight. — Anonymous, Somebody 



374 Son — Sorrow- 

Son. — That unfeathered two-legged thing, a son. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, line 170 

Song. — Here lived the soul enchanted 
By melody of song; 
Here dwelt the spirit haunted 

By a demoniac throng; 
Here sang the lips elated; 
Here grief and death were sated ; 
Here loved and here unmated 
Was he, so frail, so strong. 

J. H. Boner, Poe's Cottage at Fordham, st.i 

His song was only living aloud, 

His work, a singing with his hand ! 

Lanier, Life and Song, st. 5 

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; 
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever 
One grand, sweet song. 

Kingsley, A Farewell, st. 2 

Songs. — Such songs have power to quiet 

The restless pulse of care, 

And come like the benediction 

That follows after prayer. 1 

Longfellow, The Day Is Done, st. 9 

Sons. — Good wombs have borne bad sons. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

Sore. You rub the sore, 

When you should bring the plaster. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 1 

Sorrow. — The path of sorrow, and that path alone, 
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; 
No traveller ever reached that blessed abode, 
Who found not thorns and briers in his road. 

Cowper, Epistle to a Lady in France, lines 9-12 

They say 't is a sin to sorrow, 

That what God doth is best; 
But 'tis only a month to-morrow 

I buried it from my breast. 

R. S. Hawker, Lament of a Cornish Mother, st. 1 

*It flooded the crimson twilight, 

Like the close of an an?el's psalm, 
And it lay on my fevered spirit 

With a touch of infinite calm. — A. A. Procter, A Lost Chord, st. 3 



Sorrow— Soul 375 

A feeling of sadness and longing, 

That is not akin to pain, 
And resembles sorrow only 

As the mist resembles the rain. 

Longfellow, The Day Is Done, st. 3 

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish — 
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 

T. Moore, Come, Ye Disconsolate 

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 
The man that mocks at it and sets it light. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

If hearty sorrow 
Be a sufficient ransom for offence, 
I tender 't here. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4 

O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me, 
No casual mistress, but a wife. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lix, st. 1 

Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall, line 76 

Sorrows. — Pity the sorrows of a poor old man! 

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, 
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, 
O, give relief, and Heaven will bless your store. 

T. Moss, The Beggar 

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 

But in battalions. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Soul. — Sweet friends ! What the women lave 
For its last bed of the grave 
Is a tent which I am quitting, 
Is a garment no more fitting, 
Is a cage from which, at last, 
Like a hawk my soul hath passed. 

What ye lift upon the bier 
Is not worth a wistful tear. 
'Tis an empty sea -shell, — one 
Out of which the pearl is gone ; 
The shell is broken, it lies there; 
The pearl, the all, the soul, is here. 

Sir Edwin Arnold, After Death in Arabia, st. 3, 4 



376 Soul 

Soul — Continued 

Part they must : body and soul must part ; 
Fond couple! linked more close than wedded pair. 1 

R. Blair, The Grave 

God! it is a fearful thing 

To see the human soul take wing 
In any shape, in any mood. 

Byron, Prisoner of Chillon, st. 8 

But whither went his soul, let such relate 
Who search the secrets of the future state : 
Divines can say but what themselves believe; 
Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative : 
For, were all plain, then all sides must agree, 
And faith itself be lost in certainty. 
To live uprightly then is sure the best, 
To save ourselves, and not to damn the rest. 
The soul of Arcite went where heathens go, 
Who better live than we, though less they know. 

Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, lines 2 120-2 129 

Out of the night that covers me, 
Black as the pit from pole to pole, 

1 thank whatever gods may be 

For my unconquerable soul. 

W. E. Henley, Out of the Night That 

Covers Me, st. 1 

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, 

As the swift seasons roll! 

Leave thy low -vaulted past ! 
Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, 

Till thou at length art free, 
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! 

Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus, st. 5 

My soul is like the oar that momently 

Dies in a desperate stress beneath the wave, 
Then glitters out again and sweeps the sea : 

Each second I 'm new-born from some new grave. 

Lanier, Struggle 
The sun is but a spark of fire, 
A transient meteor in the sky, 
The soul, immortal as its sire, 
Shall never die. 

James Montgomery, The Grave, st. 30 

1 Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, 
United jar, and yet are loth to part. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 17s. 176 



Soul 377 

The look, the air, that frets thy sight, 

May be a token, that below 
The soul has closed in deadly fight 

With some infernal fiery foe, 
Whose glance would scorch thy smiling grace, 
And cast thee shuddering on thy face. 

A. A. Procter, Judge Not, st. 2 

limed soul, that, struggling to be free, 

Art more engaged! Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 3 

Now my soul hath elbow-room. 

Shakespeare, King John, v, 7 

Why should this worthless tegument endure 

If its undying guest be lost forever? 
Oh, let us keep the soul embalmed and pure 

In living virtue; that when both must sever, 
Although corruption may our frame consume, 
The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom. 

Horace Smith, Address to a Mummy, st. 13 

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take ; 
For soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. 

Spenser, Hymne in Honour of Beautie, lines 132, 133 

So passed the strong heroic soul away. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 909 

Where wert thou, Soul, ere yet my body born 
Became thy dwelling-place? Didst thou on earth, 
Or in the clouds, await this body's birth? 
Or by what chance upon that winter's morn 
Didst thou this body find, a babe forlorn? 
Didst thou in sorrow enter, or in mirth? 
Or for a jest, perchance, to try its worth 
Thou tookest flesh, ne'er from it to be torn? 
Nay, Soul, I will not mock thee ; well I know 
Thou wert not on the earth, nor in the sky ; 
For with my body's growth thou too didst grow; 
But with that body's death wilt thou too die? 

1 know not, and thou canst not tell me, so 
In doubt we '11 go together, — thou and I. 

Samuel Waddington, Soul and Body 

A soul immortal, spending all her fires, 
Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness, 
Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarmed 
At aught this scene can threaten or indulge, 
Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, 
To waft a feather or to drown a fly. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 149-154 



378 Souls — Sparkled 

Souls. — Of two souls — one must bend, one rule above. 

R. Browning, Beatrice Signorini, line 86 

IT is an awkward thing to play with souls, 

And matter enough to save one's own: 
Yet think of my friend, and the burning coals 

He played with for bits of stone ! 

R. Browning, A Light Woman, st. 12 

We are only we 
While souls and bodies in one frame agree. 

Dryden, Translation of Lucretius, III, lines 17, 18 

These are the times that try men's souls. 

T. Paine, The Crisis, No. t 

Thou almost mak 'st me waver in my faith, 
To hold opinion with Pythagoras, 
That souls of animals infuse themselves 
Into the trunks of men. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Sound. — A winged and wandering sound. 

Maria Tesselschade Visscher, The Night- 
ingale (trans. Sir John Bo wring) 

Sow. — He has the wrong sow by the ear. 

Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, ii, 1 

The sow that was washed [is turned] to her wallowing 
in the mire. 2 Peter ii, 22 

Spaniel. You play the spaniel, 

And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 3 [2] 

I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, 

The more you beat me, I will fawn on you : 

Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, 

Neglect me, lose me ; only give me leave, 

Unworthy as I am, to follow you. 

What worser place can I beg in your love 

(And yet a place of high respect with me), 

Than to be used as you use your dog? 

Shakespeare, Midsummer -Night's Dream, ii, 1 

Sparkled. — She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. 1 
Young, Night Thoughts, V, line 601 

1 That loving soul, which on the parent's breast 
Had sparkled as a dew-drop, was exhaled, 
To mingle mid the brightness of the skies. 

L. H. Sigourney, Dew-drops 



Speak— Speech 379 

Speak. I trust I may have leave to speak; 

And speak I will. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3 

I speak as my understanding instructs me and as my 
honesty puts it to utterance. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, i, 1 

Spectres. They drink out of skulls newly torn from 

the grave, 
Dancing 'round them the spectres are seen; 
Their liquor is blood, and this horrible stave 
They howl: "To the health of Alonzo the Brave, 
And his consort, the Fair Imogene! " 
M. G. Lewis, Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene 

Speculation. — Speculation is a round game ; the players see 
little or nothing of their cards at first starting; gains 
may be great — and so may losses. ... A mania pre- 
vailed, a bubble burst, four stockbrokers took villa 
residences at Florence, four hundred nobodies were 
ruined, and among them Mr. Nickleby. 

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, i 

Speech. — Men ever had, and ever will have, leave 
To coin new words well suited to the age. 
Words are like leaves, some wither every year, 
And every year a younger race succeeds. 

Use may revive the obsoletest words, 

And banish those that now are most in vogue; 

Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech. 

Roscommon, Art of Poetry, lines 73-91 

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to 
you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as 
many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier 
spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with 
your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very tor- 
rent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of pas- 
sion, 1 you must acquire and beget a temperance that may 
give it smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to 
hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to 
tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, 
who for the most part are capable of nothing but in- 
explicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a 
fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

x "As I may say, whirlwind of your passion" according to different versions. 



380 Speech — Spirit 

Mend your speech a little, 

Lest it [you] may mar your fortunes. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, i, 1 

>• His speech was like a tangled chain ; nothing impaired, 
but all disordered. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, v, 1 

Rude am I in my speech, 
And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Speech ventilates our intellectual fire; 
Speech burnishes our mental magazine. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 478, 479 

Spider. — The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! 
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. 1 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 217, 218 

Spin. — Spin, spin, Clotho, spin! 

Lachesis, twist! and, Atropos, sever! 
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, 
But surely God endures for ever! 

Lowell, Villa Franca, st. 7 

Spirit. — The letter kills, the spirit keeps alive 2 
In law and gospel. 

R. Browning, The Ring and the Book, XI, 

lines 1531, 1532 

Lord! since we have feasted thus, 
Which we so little merit, 

Let Meg now take away the flesh, 
And Jock bring in the spirit ! 

Burns, On a Sheep's Head 

1 am thy father's spirit, 

Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, 

And for the day confined to fast in fires, 

Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature 

Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid 

To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 

Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 

Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, 

Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 

1 Much like a subtle spider which doth sit, 

In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; 
If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, 
She feels it instantly on every side. 

Sir J. Davies, The Immortality of the Soul 

2 The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2 Cor. iii, 6 



Spirit — Spiritual 3 8 ' 

And each particular hair to stand on end, 

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine [porcupine] : 

But this eternal blazon must not be 

To ears of flesh and blood. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! Ibid. 

When that this body did contain a spirit, 

A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; 

But now two paces of the vilest earth 

Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead 

Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 4 

These foolish drops do something [somewhat] drown 
my manly spirit. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 3 

Our tastes, our needs, are never twice the same. 

Nothing contents us long, however dear, 
The spirit in us, like the grosser frame, 

Outgrows the garments which it wore last year. 
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Year Outgrows 

the Spring, st. 4 

Spirits. Spirits, when they please, 

Can either sex assume, or both; so soft 
And uncompounded is their essence pure, 
Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, 
Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, 
Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they choose, 
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, 
Can execute their airy purposes, 
And works of love or enmity fulfil. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 423-431 

Glendower. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Hotspur. Why, so can I, or so can any man ; 
But will they come when you do call for them? 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone, 
And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye? 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee, 

Take, I give it willingly; 

For, invisible to thee, 

Spirits twain have crossed with me. 

Uhland, The Passage (trans. Sarah Austen), st. 6 

Spiritual. — Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 677, 678 



382 Spleen — Squadron 

Spleen. — You shall digest the venom of your spleen, 
Though it do split you ; for, from this day forth, 
I '11 use you for rny mirth, yea, for my laughter, 
When you are waspish. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Splendour. — The splendour falls on castle walls 
And snowy summits old in story; 
The long light shakes across the lakes, 
And the wild cataract leaps in glory. 
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, 
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. 

Tennyson, The Princess, iii 

Spoke. — When I spoke that, I was ill-tempered too. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Sport. — Sport that wrinkled Care derides, 
And Laughter holding both his sides. 

Milton, L' Allegro, lines 31, 32 

Spot. — My family . . . think it indispensable that [Mr. 
Micawber] should be upon the spot ... in case of 
anything turning up. 

Dickens, David Copperfield, I, xii 

Out, damned spot! out, I say. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 1 

Spring. — The spring comes slowly up this way. 

S. T. Coleridge, Christabel, I, line 22 

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king. 

T. Nash, Spring, the Sweet Spring 

Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come. 1 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, line 1 

Spring-time. — Noiselessly as the spring-time 
Her crown of verdure weaves, 
And all the trees on all the hills 
Open their thousand leaves. 

C. F. Alexander, Burial of Moses, st. 3 

Squadron. — A fellow almost damned in a fair wife ; 
That never set a squadron in the field, 
Nor the division of a battle knows 
More than a spinster; . . . 

Mere prattle, without practice, 
Is all his soldiership. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

1 "Come, gentle spring! ethereal mildness! come." 
O Thomson! void of rhyme as well as reason ; 
How couldst thou thus poor human nature hum? 

There's no such season! Hood, Spring, A New Version 



Square — Standard 383 



Square. — Utopia is a pleasant place, 
But how shall I get there? 
"Straight down the crooked lane, 
And all round the square." 

Hood, A Plain Direction, st. 2 

Square Deal. — A man who is good enough to shed his blood 
for his country 1 is good enough to be given a square deal 
afterward. More than that no man is entitled to, and 
less than that no man shall have. 

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech at Springfield, 

III., July 4, 1903 
Squeezing. — What holds a pretty girl's 
Hand without squeezing? 

F. Locker, On an Old Muff 

Staff. — The boy was the very staff of my age. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 2 

Stage. All the world 's a stage, 

And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. 2 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

A kingdom for a stage, princes to act 

And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, Prologue 

Stammer. — I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightst 
pour this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes 
out of a narrow -mouthed bottle, either too much at once, 
or none at all. Shakespeare, As You Like It, hi, 2 

Stand. — Here I stand ; I cannot do otherwise ; God help me ! 
Martin Luther, His Defence before the 

Diet of Worms 
Standard. — But still he waves the standard, and cries, amid 
the rout — 
"For Church and King, fair gentlemen, spur on and fight 

it out! " 
And now he wards a Roundhead's pike, and now he 

hums a stave, 
And here he quotes a stage-play, and there he fells a 
knave. Praed, Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor, st. 5 

1 Alluding to coloured troops. 

2 The world's a theatre, the earth a stage 
Which God and nature do with actors fill. 

T. Heywood, Apology for Actors 



384 Star — Starve 

Star. — "No sight? no sound?" "No; nothing save 
The plover from the marshes calling, 
And in yon western sky, about 
An hour ago a star 1 was falling." 

"A star? There 's nothing strange in that." 
"No, nothing; but, above the thicket, 
Somehow it seemed to me that God 
Somewhere has just relieved a picket." 

Bret Harte, Relieving Guard, st. 2, 3 
Yet, if thou wilt remember one 

Who never can forget, 
Whose lonely life is not so lone 

As if we had not met, 
Believe that in the frosty sky 
Whereon is writ his destiny, 
/ Thy light is lingering yet, 

1 A star before the darkened soul, 
To guide, and gladden, and control. 

Praed, A Farewell, st. 7 
It were all one 
That I should love a bright particular star 
And think to wed it, he is so above me: 
In his bright radiance and collateral light 
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. 
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: 
The hind that would be mated by the lion 
Must die for love. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 1 

Stare. And then with a riding-whip 

Leisurely tapping a glossy boot, 
And curving a contumelious lip, 
Gorgonized me from head to foot 
With a stony British stare. — Tennyson, Maud, xiii, st. 2 

Stars. When the patient stars look down 

On all their light discovers, 
The traitor's smile, the murderer's frown, 
The lips of lying lovers, 

They try to shut their saddening eyes, 

And in the vain endeavour 
We see them twinkling in the skies, 

And so they wink for ever. 

Holmes, Album Verses, st. 6, 7 

Starve. — - But still the great have kindness in reserve, 
He helped to bury whom he helped to starve. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 247, 248 

Thomas Starr King died in San Francisco, March 4, 1864. 



State— Statue 385 

State. — A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; 
An hour may lay it in the dust. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii, st. 84 

In friendship false, implacable in hate; 

Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. Dryden, 

Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 173, 174 

What constitutes a state? 
Not high raised battlements or laboured mound, 

Thick wall or moated gate; 
Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; 

Not bays and broad-armed ports, 
Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; 

Not starred and spangled courts, 
Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 

No : — men, high-minded men, . . . 

Men, who their duties know, 
But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain; 

Prevent the long aimed blow 
And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : 

These constitute a state, 
And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 

O'er thrones and globes elate 
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 

Sir William Jones, Ode in Imitation of Alcceus 

I have done the state some service, and they know't. 

Shakespeare, Othello, v, 2 

Statesman. — Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, 
In action faithful, and in honour clear; 
Who broke no promise, served no private end, 
Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; 
Ennobled by himself, by all approved, 
And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved. 1 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle v, lines 67-72 

Statuary. She was one 

Fit for the model of a statuary 

(A race of mere impostors, when all 's done — - 
I 've seen much finer women, ripe and real, 
Than all the nonsense of their stone ideal) . 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 11S 

Statue. — The more the marble wastes 
The more the statue grows. 

Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Sonnet 

(trans. Mrs. Henry Roscoe) 

1 This quotation was also used as an epitaph on the tomb of James Craggs 
in Westminster Abbey, with a change in the last line to 
"Praised, wept, and honoured by the Muse he loved." 



386 Stature— Steed 

Stature. — Jaques. What stature is she of? 
Orlando. Just as high as my heart. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

Steal. — Thieves for their robbery have authority 
When judges steal themselves. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal! " foh! a fico for the 
phrase! Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, i, 3 

We steal by line and level. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iv 

Stealing. — In vain we call old notions fudge, 

And bend our conscience to our dealing; 
The Ten Commandments will not budge, 
And stealing will continue stealing. 

Lowell, Epigram: International Copyright 

B, taught by Pope to do his good by stealth, 
'Twixt participle and noun no difference feeling, 
In office placed to serve the Commonwealth, 
Does himself all the good he can by stealing. 

Lowell, Epigram: A Misconception 

When to bed the world are bobbing, 
Then's the time for orchard-robbing; 
Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling 
Were it not for stealing, stealing. 

T. Randolph, Fairies' Song (trans, from the 

Latin, by Leigh Hunt) 

Steam. — Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar 
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; 
Or on wide waving wings expanded bear 
The flying-chariot through the field of air. 1 

E. Darwin, A Botanic Garden, I, i 

Steed. — And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, 
And through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : 
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, 
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. 

Byron, Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 4 

Like the impatient steed of war, 
He snuffed the battle from afar. — Scott, Marmion, vi, 1 

1 1 blow the bellows, I forge the steel, 

In all the shops of trade; 
I hammer the ore and turn the wheel 

Where my arms of strength are made; 
I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint, 

I carry, I spin, I weave, 
And all my doings I put into print 

On every Saturday eve. G. W. Cutter, The Song of Steam 



Steeds— Stolen 387 

Steeds. — The steeds are all bridled, and snort to the rein; 
Curved is each neck, and flowing each mane; 
White is the foam of their champ on the bit : 
The spears are uplifted; the matches are lit; 
The cannon are pointed and ready to roar, 
And crush the wall they have crumbled before. 

Byron, Siege of Corinth, st. 22 

Steer. I argue not 

Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
Of heart or hope; but still bear up, and steer 
Right onward. Milton, Sonnet to Cyriac Skinner 

Stenches. — In Kohln, a town of monks and bones, 
And pavements fanged with murderous stones, 
And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches; 
I counted two-and-seventy stenches, 
All well defined, and several stinks! 

S. T. Coleridge, Cologne, lines 1-5 

Stephen. — King Stephen was a worthy peer, 
His breeches cost him a crown; 
He held them sixpence all too dear, 
With that he called the tailor lown. 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 

Steps. — He who, from zone to zone, 

Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 
In the long way that I must tread alone, 
Will lead my steps aright. 

Bryant, To a Waterfowl, st. 8 

Stile. — I 'm sittin' on the stile, Mary, 
Where we sat side by side. 

And the red was on your lip, Mary, 
And the love-light in your eye. 
Lady Dufferin, Lament of the Irish Immigrant, st. 1 

Stimulating. — There are companies of men of genius into 
which I sometimes go, where the atmosphere of intellect 
and sentiment is so much more stimulating than alcohol, 



sober 



LllCllt 13 aU 111UL11 111U1C SLllllLLiaLlllg L11CL11 aii^unui, 

thought fit to take wine, it would be to keep 
— Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 



Stolen. — Stolen sweets are always sweeter; 
Stolen kisses much completer. 

T. Randolph, Fairies' Song (trans, from the 

Latin, by Leigh Hunt) 



388 Stolid— Storm 

Stolid. — A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, 
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox. 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. i 

Stomach. He was a man 

Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking 
Himself with princes. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

Stomachs. Our stomachs 

Will make what 's homely savoury. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 6 

They have only stomachs to eat, and none to fight. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 7 

Stone. — As cold as any stone. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 3 

The earth upon her corpse was pressed, 
This post was driven into her breast, 
And a stone is on her face. 

Southey, The Cross-Roads, st. 27 

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss. 

Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good 

Husbandry, Good Husbandry Lessons, st. 46 

Stonewall. — Appealing from his native sod, 
In forma pauperis to God, 

"Lay bare Thine arm! Stretch forth Thy rod: 
Amen!" — That's Stonewall's Way. 

J. W. Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way, st. 3 

Storm. — And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. l 

Addison, The Campaign, lines 291, 292 

Poor creatures! how they envies us! 

And wishes, I 've a notion, 
For our good luck, in such a storm, 
To be upon the ocean! 

William Pitt (of Malta), The Sailor's 

Consolation, st. 2 
So foul a sky clears not without a storm. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 2 

Like a storm he came, 
And shook the house, and like a storm he went. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, lines 215, 216 

a This line is frequently ascribed to Pope as it is found in the Dunciad, iii, 
line 264. Cf. God, Quotation from Cowper. 



Stormy — Strenuous 389 

Stormy. — I 've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, 1 
And pity lovers rather more than seamen. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto vi, st. 53 

Story. — Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir. 
Canning, The Friend of Humanity and the 

Knife-Grinder, st. 6 
A woman's story at a winter's fire, 
Authorized by her grandam. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iii, 4 

Straight. — There is no force however great 
Can stretch a cord however fine 
Into a horizontal line 
That shall be accurately straight. 

W. Whewell, The Unconscious Poetizing 

of a Philosopher 

Strangers. — I do desire we may be better strangers. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

Straw. — Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may 
see by that which way the wind is. 

John Selden, Table Talk: Libels 

Street. — A street there is in Paris famous, 

For which no rhyme our language yields, 
Rue Neuve des Petits Champs its name is — 
The New Street of the Little Fields. 

Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, st. 1 

Strength. If you had the strength 

Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 1 

Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow, 
That God makes instruments to work his will, 

If but that will we can arrive to know, 

Nor tamper with the weights of good and ill. 

Tom Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, st. 9 

Strenuous. — I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble 
ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of 
toil and effort, of labour and strife; to preach that high- 
est form of success which comes, not to the man who 

1 This only proved as a spark to the powder, 
And the storm I had raised came faster and louder; 
It blew and it rained, thundered, lightened, and hailed 
Interjections, verbs, pronouns, till language quite failed 
To express the abusive, and then its arrears 
Were brought up all at once by a torrent of tears, 
And my last faint, despairing attempt at an obs- 
ervation was lost in a tempest of sobs. 

W. A. Butler, Nothing to Wear 



39° Strenuous— Strokes 

desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not 
shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, 
and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. 
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech before the 

Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899 

Strife. — A man whose soul is pure and strong, whose sword 

is bright and keen, 
Who knows the splendour of the fight and what its 

issues mean; 
Who never takes one step aside, nor halts, though hope 

be dim, 
But cleaves a pathway through the strife, and bids men 

follow him. — Henry van Dyke, Another Chance, st. 7 

Better a day of strife 
Than a century of sleep. 

A. J. Ryan, The Rosary of My Tears 

Oh, hush thee, my baby, the time soon will come, 
When thy sleep shall be broken by trumpet and drum; 
Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, 
For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. 1 
Scott, Lullaby of an Infant Chief, st. 3 

Strike. — Strike when the iron is hot. 

John Webster, Westward Ho! ii, 1 ; 
G. Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, iv, 1 

Strikes. — A mechanic his labour will often discard 
If the rate of his pay he dislikes ; 
But a clock — and its case is uncommonly hard — 
Will continue to work though it strikes. 

Hood, Epigram on the Superiority of Machinery 

Strings. — 'Tis good in every case, you know, 
To have two strings unto your bow. 2 

Charles Churchill, The Ghost, IV 

Stripes. Stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, 

Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 24, 25 

Strokes. Hercules himself must yield to odds; 

And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, ii, 1 

*Yet must they wake again, 
Wake soon to all the bitterness of life, 
The pang of sorrow, the temptation strife, 

Aye to the conscience pain. G. W. Bethune, Hymn to Night 

2 He that has two strings to his bow. Butler, Hudibras, III, i, line 3 

I had two strings to my bow. Fielding, Love in Several Masques, v, 13 



Strong — Submission 391 

Strong. — Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the 
twain shall meet, 
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judg- 
ment Seat; 
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, 

nor Birth, 
When two strong men stand face to face, though they 
come from the ends of the earth. 

Kipling, Ballad of East and West 

Know how sublime a thing it is 
To suffer and be strong. 

Longfellow, Light of the Stars, st. 9 

Struggle. — Hath hope been smitten in its early dawn? 
Have clouds o'ercast thy purpose, trust, or plan? 
Have faith, and struggle on! 

R. S. S. Andros, Perseverance, st. 6 

Say not the struggle nought availeth, 
The labour and the wounds are vain. 

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; 

It may be, in yon smoke concealed 

Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, 

And, but for you, possess the field. 

A. H. Clough, Say not, the Struggle Nought 

Availeth, st. 1, 2 

Study. — No profit grows where is no pleasure ta 'en ; 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, i, J 

Style. — Style is the dress of thoughts. 

Chesterfield, Letter to His Son, Nov. 24, 1749 

Sublime. — The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly 
related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One 
step above the sublime makes the ridiculous,- and one 
step above the ridiculous makes the sublime. 

Thomas Paine, Age of Reason, II, ad finem 

Submission. — Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, 
And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 310, 311 

Submission bondage, and resistance death. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, i, st. 16 



392 Success — Sun 

Success. — "Tis not in mortals to command success, 
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it. 1 

Addison, Cato, i, 2 
Such a nature, 
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow 
Which he treads on at noon. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, i, 1 

Sue. — Come not cringing to sue me! 

Take me with triumph and power, 
As a warrior storms a fortress! 

I will not shrink or cower. • '-' 

Come, as you came in the desert, 
Ere we were women and men, 
When the tiger passions were in us, 
And love as you loved me then! 

W. W. Story, Cleopatra, st. 12 

Suez. — Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is 
like the worst, 
Where there are n't no Ten Commandments an' a man 

can raise a thirst ; 
For the temple-bells are callin', and it's there that I 

would be — 
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea. 

Kipling, Mandalay 

Sufferance. — Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Sufferings.- — To each his sufferings : all are men, 
Condemned alike to groan; 
The tender for another's pain, 

Th' unfeeling for his own. Thomas Gray, Ode 

on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, st. 10 

Suggestion. — They '11 take suggestion as a cat laps milk. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 1 

Sun. — Let others hail the rising sun : 
I bow to that whose course is run. 

David Garrick, On the Death of Mr. Pelham 

Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, 
To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 26 

1 " 'Tis not in mortals to command success;" 

But do you more, Sempronius — don't deserve it. 
And take my word, you won't have any less : 

Be wary, watch the time, and always serve it. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiii, st. 18 



Sun — Supper 393 

Taking the year together, my dear, 
There is n't more cloud than sun. 

R. Peale, Faith and Hope 

The weary sun hath made a golden set, 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car 
Gives signal [token] of a goodly day to-morrow. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, v, 3 

An hour before the worshipped sun 
Peered forth the golden window of the east, 
A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 1 

Sunbeams. — He had been eight years upon a project for 
extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to 
be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm 
the air in raw, inclement summers. 

Swift, Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Laputa, v 

Sunday. — In spite of all hypocrisy can spin, 

As surely as I am a Christian scion, 
I cannot think it is a mortal sin — 

(Unless he 's loose) to look upon a lion. 
I really think that one may go, perchance, 

To see a bear, as guiltless as on Monday — 
(That is, provided that he did not dance) 

Bruin 's no worse than bakin' on a Sunday — 

But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy? 

Hood, An Open Question, st. 11. 

Sunflower. — The heart that has truly loved never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close, 
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, 
The same look which she turned when he rose. 

Thomas Moore, Believe Me, If All Those 

Endearing Young Charms, st. 2 

Superfluity. — Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but 
competency lives longer. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

Supper. — This night he makes a supper, and a great one. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 3 

About the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds 
best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which 
is called supper. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, i, 1 

Being full of supper and distempering draughts. 

Shakespeare, Othello, 1, i 



394 Suspicion — Sweetness 

Suspicion. — See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! 
He that but fears the thing he would not know 
Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes 
That what he feared is chanced. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, i, i 
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, v, 6 

Swan. — Sweet swan of Avon! Ben Jonson, 

To the Memory of Shakespeare, line 7 1 
I will make thee think thy swan a crow. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 2 
Swap. — It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. 
Lincoln, Reply to the National Union 

League, June 9, 1864 
Swashing. — We '11 have a swashing and a martial outside, 
As many other mannish cowards have 
That do outface it with their semblances. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 3 

Swear. — For though an oath obliges not, 
Where any thing is to be got, 
As thou hast proved, yet 'tis profane, 
And sinful, when men swear in vain. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, hi, lines 101-104 
It 's 'most enough to make a deacon swear. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, line 91 
Do not swear at all ; 
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, 
Which is the god of my idolatry, 
And I '11 believe thee. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Sweet. — How sad and bad and mad it was — 
But then, how it was sweet ! 

R. Browning, Confessions, st. 9 

Sweet are all things, when we learn to prize them, 

Not for their sake, but His who grants them or denies 

them! Aubrey De Vere, Sad Is Our Youth 

Sweetness. — And ever, against eating cares, 
Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 
Married to immortal verse, 1 
Such as the meeting soul may pierce, 
In notes with many a winding bout 
Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 

Milton, U Allegro, lines 135-140 

1 Wisdom married to immortal verse. — Wordsworth, The Excursion: 

Churchyard Among the Mountains (Book VII), line 541 



Sweets — Table-talk 395 

Sweets. — The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. 

Gay, The Beggar's Opera, ii, 2 

Sweets to the sweet : 1 farewell! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Swig. I '11 meet 'im later on 

At the place where 'e is gone — 
Where it 's always double drill and no canteen ; 
'E '11 be squattin' on the coals, 
Givin' drink to poor damned souls, 
An' I '11 get a swig in hell from Gunga Din. 

Kipling, Gunga Din, st. 5 

Swimmer. — A solitary shriek — the bubbling cry 
Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 53 

Swine. — Or sheer swine, all cry and no wool. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, line 852 [850] 

Sword. — "I would," quoth grim old Oliver, "that Belial's 
trusty sword 
This day were doing battle for the Saints and for the 
Lord! " Praed, Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor, st. 6 

Full bravely hast thou fleshed 
Thy maiden sword. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 4 

Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword ; 2 
I fear thee not. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

Swords. — And sheathed their swords for lack of argument. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 1 

Swore. — "Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my 
uncle Toby, — "but nothing to this. For my own part, 
I could not have a heart to curse my dog so." 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, III, xi 

Syllables. — Syllables govern the world. 

John Selden, Table Talk: Power, 3 

Table-talk. Let it serve for table-talk; 

Then, howsoe'er thou speak 'st, 'mong other things 
I shall digest it. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 5 

J The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid. 

T. Tickell, To a Lady with a Present of Flowers 
2 Nay, never look upon your lord 
And lay your hands upon your sword. Scott, Marmion, vi, st. 14 



396 Tailor— Talked 

Tailor. — Be sure your tailor is a man of sense; 
But add a little care, a decent pride, 

And always err upon the sober side. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 47 

Take. The good old rule 

Sufnceth them, the simple plan, 
That they should take, who have the power, 
And they should keep who can. 

Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave, st. 10 

Tale. — A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; 
The language plain, and incidents well linked. 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 235, 236 

I cannot tell how the truth may be ; 
I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto ii, st. 22 

Mark now, how a plain tale [how plain a tale] shall put 
you down. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Thereby hangs a tale. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7; Merry 
Wives of Windsor, i, 4; Taming of the Shrew, iv, 1 

I will a round unvarnished tale deliver 

Of my whole course of love. — Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

Talk. The herd of such, 

Who think too little, and who talk too much. 1 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, lines 533, 534 

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, 
and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to 
in a month. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

This gentleman will out-talk us all. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew,-i, 2 

In after-dinner talk 
Across the walnuts and the wine. 2 

Tennyson, The Miller's Daughter, lines 31, 32 

Talked. — I believe they talked of me, for they laughed 
consumedly. — G. Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, iii, 1 

1 E'en wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. 

Dryden, Juvenal, Satire vi, line 573 

3 My lips let loose among the nuts and wine. 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 2 



Talking — Teach 397 

Talking. — Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse, / 
But talking is not always to converse. 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 7, 8 

Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much 
in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibra- 
tions as in twanging them to bring out their music. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

A good old man, sir; he will be talking. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 5 

Tall. — I am more than common tall. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 3 

Taste. — "I don't at all take it ill that you speak your senti- 
ment; it is your sentiment only that I find bad. I have 
been most egregiously deceived in your narrow under- 
standing. . . . Say no more, my child, " said he ;" you 
are yet too raw to make proper distinctions. Know that 
I never composed a better homily than that which you 
disapprove; for my genius (thank Heaven!) has as yet 
lost nothing of its vigour. Henceforth I will make a 
better choice of a confidant, and keep one of greater 
ability than you. . . . Adieu, Mr. Gil Bias; I wish you 
all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste!" 1 

Le Sage, Gil Bias, lviii 

Tastes. — Such and so various are the tastes of men. 

Mark Akenside, Pleasures of the 

Imagination, III, line 567 

Tea. — Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid ; 
thou female-tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart- 
opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insi- 
pidity I owe the happiest moments of my life, let me fall 
prostrate. Colley Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake, i, 1 

Teach. — If I am right, thy grace impart, 
Still in the right to stay; 
If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart 
To find that better way. 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 8 

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, 

than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 2 

1 Th' assuming Wit, who deems himself so wise, 
As his mistaken patron to advise, 
Let him not dare to vent his dang'rous thought, 
A noble fool was never in a fault. 

Pope, January and May, lines 162-165 



398 Teach— Tears 

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, 
To teach the young idea how to shoot. 

Thomson, The Seasons, Spring, lines 1152, 1153 

Tear. — The lips may beguile, 
With a dimple or smile, 
But the test of affection 's a tear. 

Byron, The Tear, st. 1 
Forgive this foolish tear, 
But let the old oak stand. 

G P. Morris, Woodman Spare That Tree, St. 3 

What a hell of witchcraft lies 
In the small orb of one particular tear ! 

Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, lines 288, 289 

Tears. — More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches. 
T. Guthrie, The Gospel in Ezekiel, xv 

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, line 620 

Some reckon their age by years, 

Some measure their life by art ; 
But some tell their days by the flow of their tears, 

And their lives by the moans of their heart. 

A. J. Ryan, The Rosary of My Tears 

The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, 
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto iv, st. 1 

A child will weep a bramble's smart, 
A maid to see her sparrow part : 
A stripling for a woman's heart: 
But woe awaits a country when 
She sees the tears of bearded men. 1 
Then, oh! what omen, dark and high, 
When Douglas wets his manly eye! 

Scott, Marmion, v, 16. 

The tears live in an onion that should water this 
sorrow. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 2 

The big round tears 
Coursed one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase. Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 1 

X A woman's tear-drop melts, a man's half sears, 

Like molten lead, as if you thrust a pike in 
His heart, to force it out, for (to be shorter) 
To them [women] 'tis a relief, to us a torture. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto v, st. 118 



Tears — Tedious 399 

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears 
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 2 

My tears, 
The moist impediments unto my speech. 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 5 [4] 

The pretty and sweet manner of it forced 

Those waters from me which I would have stopped ; 

But I had not so much of man in me, 

And all my mother came into mine eyes 

And gave me up to tears. 2 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 6 

One whose subdued eyes, 
Albeit unused to the melting mood, 
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees, 
Their medicinal gum. Shakespeare, Othello, v, 2 

She drinks no other drink but tears, 
Brewed with her sorrows, mashed [sorrow, meshed] upon 
her cheeks. Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, iii, 2 

A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, 1 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. 

Tennyson, The Princess, iv, line 21 

Tedious. He 's as tedious 

As is a tired horse, a railing wife ; 
Worse than a smoky house : I had rather live 
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far, 
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me 
In any summer house in Christendom. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, iii, 1 

l He has strangled 
His language in his tears. Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 1 

2 Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, 
And therefore I forbid my tears : but yet 
It is our trick; nature her custom holds, 
Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, 
The woman will be out. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 7 

Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear 

In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, 

Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 
Oh! I could play the woman with mine eyes 
And braggart with my tongue. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 3 



400 Tedious — Tempter 

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 1 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

Shakespeare, King John, iii, 4 

Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2 

Tediousness. — Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil, 
Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 3 

Tell. — All down the long and narrow street he went 
Beating it in upon his weary brain 
As though it were the burthen of a song, 
Not to tell her, never to let her know. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, lines 791-794 

Temper. — There was a stock of temper we both had for a 
start, 
Although we never suspected 't would take us two apart. 
W. Carleton, Betsey and I Are Out, st. 4 

Oh! blessed with temper, whose unclouded ray 
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; 
She, who can love a sister's charms, or hear 
Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; 



Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, 
Yet has her humour most, when she obeys. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, lines 257-264 

Tempest. — If after every tempest come such calms, 

May the winds blow till they have wakened death! 
And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas 
Olympus-high, and duck again as low 
As hell 's from heaven. Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 1 

Temples. — The groves were God's first temples. 

Bryant, A Forest Hymn, line 1 

Tempted. — 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, 
Another thing to fall. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 1 

Tempter. — The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii. 2 

1_ What is so tedious as a twice-told tale? Pope, Odyssey, XII, ad finem 

This act is as an ancient tale new told, 

And in the last repeating troublesome. — Shakespeare, King John, iv, a 



Tender— Thief 401 

Tender. — More tender and more true. — Scott, Marmion, v, 16 

Tennis. Renouncing clean 

The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings, 
Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, i, 3 

Tent. — 'Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest 
A Sultan to the realm of Death addressed; 

The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash 
Strikes, and prepares it for another guest. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 45 

Terms. — Many holida)'- and lady terms. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, i, 3 

Terrors. — The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave; 
The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm; 
These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, 
The terrors of the living, not the dead. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, lines 10-13 

Text. Many a holy text around she strews, 

That teach the rustic moralist to die. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 22 

Texts. Old Brown, . . . 

Mad as he was, knew texts enough to wear a parson's 
gown. E. C. Stedman, How Old Brown Took 

Harper's Ferry, st. 7 

Thankful. — I doubt whether that practice of piety, ... to 
be thankful because we are better off than somebody 
else, be a very rational religious exercise. 

Thackeray, Vanity Fair, lxvi 

Thanks. — Thanks, the exchequer of the poor. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, ii, 3 

Theoric. — The bookish theoric. Shakespeare, Othello, i, 1 

Thief. — Dogberry. If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, 
by virtue of your office, to be no true man; and, for such 
kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them, 
why, the more is for your honesty. 

Second Watch. If we know him to be a thief, shall we 
not lay hands on him? 

Dogberry. Truly, by your office, you may; but I 
think they that touch pitch will be defiled: the most 
peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let 
him show himself what he is and steal out of your com- 
pany. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 3 



402 Thievery— Thorn 

Thievery. I '11 example you with thievery : 

The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea ; the moon 's an arrant thief, 
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 
The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, 
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen 
From general excrement : each thing 's a thief. 

Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, iv, 3 

Thieves. — A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one 
to another. — Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 2 

Thing. — Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave 
To have dominion over sea and land; 
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; 
To feel the passion of Eternity? 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 2 

Think. — Could we but think with the intensity 
We love with, we might do great things. 

P. J. Bailey, Festus, Scene — Home 

What I think I utter, and spend my malice in my 
breath. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii, 1 

Thinking. — There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking 
makes it so. Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

Thirsty.— When my thirsty soul I steep, 
Every sorrow 's lulled to sleep. 
Talk of monarchs! I am then 
Richest, happiest, first of men; 
Careless o'er my cup I sing, 
Fancy makes me more than king; 
Gives me wealthy Croesus' store, 
Can I, can I wish for more? 

T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon, xlviii 

Thorn. — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, 
One cordial in this melancholy vale, 
'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair, 
In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, 
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening 
gale. Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 9 

A weary lot is thine, fair maid, 

A weary lot is thine! 
To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, 

And press the rue for wine! 



Thorn — Thoughts 403 

A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien, 

A feather of the blue, 
A doublet of the Lincoln green, — 
No more of me you knew, 
My love! 
No more of me you knew. 

Scott, Rokeby, Canto iii, st. 28 

Thorns. — The rills of pleasure never run sincere, 
(Earth has no unpolluted spring) ; 
From the cursed soil some dang'rous taint they bear, 
So roses grow on thorns, and honey wears a sting. 
Isaac Watts, Lyric Poems : Earth and Heaven, 

lines 9-12 

Thought. — Thought is deeper than all speech, 
Feeling deeper than all thought. 

C. P. Cranch, Thought, st. 1 

Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will 
cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep 
cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; 
death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the 
ever-swinging pendulum, which we call the heart, silence 
at last the clicking of the terrible escapement we have 
carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. . . . 
Will nobody block those wheels, uncouple that pinion, 
cut the string that holds those weights, blow up the in- 
fernal machine with gunpowder? ... If anybody 
would only contrive some kind of a lever that one could 
thrust in among the works of this horrid automaton and 
check them, or alter their rate of going, what would the 
world give for the discovery? 

"From half a dime to a dime, according to the style 
of the place and the quality of the liquor," — said the 
young fellow whom they call John. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 

The weapons which your hands have found 
Are those which Heaven itself has wrought, 

Light, Truth, and Love; your battle-ground 
The free, broad field of Thought. 

Whittier, To the Reformers of England, st. 8 

Thoughts. — And as I walk by the vast, calm river, 
The awful river so dread to see, 
I say, "Thy breadth and thy depth for ever 
Are bridged by his thoughts that cross to me." 

Jean Ingelow, Divided, viii, st. 2 

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble 
thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, I 



404 Thoughts — Thumbs 

Thanks to the human heart by which we live, 
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, 
To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

Wordsworth, Ode on Intimations of 

Immortality, st. n 
Thoughts shut up want air, 
And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, lines 467, 468 

Threats. — There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats 
For I am armed so strong in honesty 
That they pass by me as the idle wind, 
Which I respect not. , 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Thrift. — Thrift is a blessing, if men steal it not. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Throats. — Men may sleep, and they may have their throats 
about them at that time; and some say knives have 
edges. Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 1 

Throne. A little shed 

Where they shut up the lambs at night. 
We looked in, and seen them huddled thar, 

So warm and sleepy and white ; 
And thar sot Little Breeches, and chirped, 

As peart as ever you see, 
"I want a chaw of terbacker, 

And that 's what 's the matter of me.'! 

How did he git thar? Angels. 

He could never have walked in that storm. 
They just scooped down and toted him 

To whar it was safe and warm. 
And I think that saving a little child, 

And bringing him to his own, 
Is a derned sight better business 

Than loafing around the Throne. 

John Hay, Little Breeches, st. 6, 7 

In that fierce light which beats upon a throne. 

Tennyson, Idylls of the King, Dedication, line 26 

Thumb. — Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 1 

Thumbs. — By the pricking of my thumbs, 
Something wicked this way comes. 

Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 1 



Thumps — Timbrel 405 

Thumps. — The man that hails you Tom or Jack, 
And proves by thumps upon your back 

How he esteems your merit, 1 
Is such a friend that one had need 
Be very much his friend' indeed 
To pardon or to bear it. 

Cowper, Friendship, st. 29 [26] 

Thunder. — From peak to peak, the rattling crags among 
Leaps the live thunder! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 92 

They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my 
thunder. 

John Dennis, cited in Biographia Britannica, V 

The thunder, 
That deep and dreadful organ -pipe. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iii, 3 

Thwack. — With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, 
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, ii, lines 831, 832 

Tickling. — Here comes the trout that must be caught with 
tickling. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 5 

Tide. — There is a tide in the affairs of men, 

Which, taken at the flood, 2 leads on to fortune. 

Shakespeare, Julius CcBsar, iv, 3 

Even at the turning o' the tide. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 3 

Tiger. — Tiger! Tiger! burning bright, 
In the forests of the night ; 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

William Blake, The Tiger, st. 1 

Timbrel. — Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! 
Jehovah has triumphed — his people are free. 

T. Moore, Sound the Loud Timbrel 

1 Another reading is: "His sense of your great merit." 

2 ' 'There is a tide in the affairs of men 

Which, taken at the flood,"- — you know the rest, 
And most of us have found it, now and then; 

At least we think so, though but few have guessed 
The moment, till too late to come again. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto vi, st. 1 



4°6 Time 

Time. — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — 
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 182 

Rich with the spoils of time. 

Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 14 

Time murders our youth with his sorrow and sin, 
And pushes us on to the windowless inn. 

Edwin Markham, Youth and Time, st. 4 

Time was, Time is, but Time shall be no more. 

W. Marsden, What is Time? 

The Bird of Time has but a little way 
To nutter. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 7 

Who [Time], in the dark and silent grave, 
When we have wandered all our ways, 
Shuts up the story of our days : 
But from this earth, this grave, this dust 
My God shall raise me up, I trust ! 1 

Sir Walter Raleigh, Even Such Is Time 2 

Time is best measured by tears. 

A. J. Ryan, The Rosary of My Tears 

Time rolls his ceaseless course. 3 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto iii, 1 

The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time. 4 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, v, 3 

Rosalind. Time travels in divers paces with divers 
persons. I '11 tell you who Time ambles withal, who 
Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who 
he stands still withal. 

Orlando. I pr'ythee, who doth he trot withal? 

1 According to a London edition of 1751 

And from which grave, and earth, and dust, 
The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. 

2 Said by Oldys to have been written by Raleigh the night before his 
execution. 

3 Remorseless Time! 
Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe! — what power 
Can stay him in his silent course, or melt 
His iron heart to pity? On, still on, 
He presses, and forever. G. D. Prentice, The Closing Year, st. 5 

4 Too late I stayed, — forgive the crime! 
Unheeded flew the hours : 
How noiseless falls the foot of Time 

That only treads on flowers. — W. R. Spencer, Too Late I Stayed 



Time— Times 407 

Rosalind. Marry, he trots hard with a young maid 
between the contract of her marriage and the day it is 
solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight, Time's 
pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year. 

Orlando. Who doth he gallop withal? 

Rosalind. With a thief to the gallows, for though he 
go as softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon 
there. Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

The time is out of joint. Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

We see which way the stream of time doth run. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 1 

Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time. 

Shakespeare, King John, iii, 1 

Time goes on crutches till Love have all his rites. 

Shakespeare, Mtich Ado about Nothing, ii, 1 

What seest thou else 
In the dark backward and abysm of time? 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, i, 2 

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, 

Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 

A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : 

Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured 

As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 

As done. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, v 

Time tries the troth in everything. 

Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, 

The Author's Epistle, i 
We take no note of time 
But from its loss. 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 55, 56 

Time wasted is existence; used, is life. 1 

Ibid., II, line 150 

Times. — The times and titles now are altered strangely 
With me since first you knew me. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iv, 2 

1 Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life 
is made of. Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 



VTol 



408 Timid— To-day 

Timid. — Then shrieked the timid, and stood still the brave. 
Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 52 

Tintinnabulation. The tintinnabulation that so musi- 

cally wells 
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, 
Bells, bells, bells — 
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. 

Poe, The Bells, st. 1 

Toad. — Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, line 800 

obacco. — Sublime tobacco ! : which from east to west 
Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; . . . 
Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, 
Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand; 
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, 2 
When tipped with amber, yellow, rich, and ripe; 
Like other charmers, wooing the caress 
More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; 
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far 
Thy naked beauties — Give me a cigar ! 

Byron, The Island, Canto ii, st. 19 

What a glorious creature was he who first discovered 
the use of tobacco. 

Fielding, The Grub Street Opera, iii, 1 
Peart and chipper and sassy, 

Always ready to swear and fight, — 
And I 'd larnt him ter chaw terbacker, 
Jest to keep his milk-teeth white. 

John Hay, Little Breeches, st. 2 

To-day. Happy the man, and happy he alone, 

He, who can call to-day his own: 
He who, secure within, can say, 
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. 3 
Dryden, Paraphrase of Horace, III, 

Ode 29, lines 65-68 

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do 

to-day. Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 

1 Divine tobacco! Spenser, Faerie Queene, III, Canto v, 32 

2 A short frail pipe, which yet had blown 
Its gentle odours over either zone, 

And, puffed where'er winds rise or waters roll, 
Had wafted smoke from Portsmouth to the Pole. 

Byron, The Island, Canto ii, st. 19 
3 Boldly say each night, 
To-morrow let my sun his beams display, 
Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. 

Cowley, Essay XI : Of Myself 
Cf. Life. 



To-day — Toil 409 

Rise from your dreams of the future, — 

Of gaining some hard-fought field ; 
Of storming some airy fortress, 

Or bidding some giant yield; 
Your future has deeds of glory, 

Of honour (God grant it may!) 
But your arm will never be stronger, 

Or the need so great as to-day. 

A. A. Procter, Now, st. 2 

Toe. — Come, and trip it as you go 
On the light fantastic toe. 1 

Milton, L' Allegro, lines 33, 34 

Together. — I would change life's Spring for his roughest 
weather, 
If we might bear the storm together; 
• And give my hopes for half thy fears, 
And sell my smiles for half thy tears. 

Give me one common bliss or woe, 
One common friend, one common foe, 
On the earth below, or the clouds above, 
One thing we both may loathe, or love. 

Praed, To , st. 9, 10 

They have seemed to be together, though absent; 
shook hands, as over a vast; and embraced, as it were, 
from the ends of opposed winds. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, i, 1 

Toil. — Heaven is blessed with perfect rest, but the blessing 
of Earth is toil. Henry van Dyke, 

The Toiling of Felix, Envoy, st. 5 

He that will not live by toil 
Has no right on English soil! 
God's word's our warrant! 

Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song, st. 2 

Perchance, when long, long years are o'er — 

I care not how they flow — 
Some note of me to that far shore 

Across the deep may go ; 
And thou wilt read, and turn to hide 
The conscious blush of woman's pride; 

For thou alone wilt know 
What spell inspired the silent toil 
Of mid-day sun and midnight oil. 

Praed, A Farewell, st. 9 

'Come, knit hands, and beat the ground 
In a light fantastic round. Milton, Comus, lines 143, 144 



410 Toiler — Tommy 

Toiler. — Round swings the hammer of industry, quickly the 
sharp chisel rings, 
And the heart of the toiler has throbbings that stir not 

the bosom of kings, — 
He the true ruler and conqueror, he the true king of his 

race, 
Who nerveth his arm for life's combat, and looks the 
strong world in the face. 

D. F. Mac-Carthy, The Bell-Founder 

Toilet. — Rufa, whose eye quick -glancing o'er the Park, 
Attracts each light gay meteor of a spark, 
Agrees as ill with Rufa studying Locke, 
As Sappho's di'monds with her dirty smock; 
Or Sappho at her toilet's greasy task, 
With Sappho fragrant at an ev'ning masque. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, lines 21-26 

Toiling. — Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, 
Onward through life he goes ; 
Each morning sees some task begin, 

Each evening sees it close; 
Something attempted, something done, 
Has earned a night's repose. 

Longfellow, The Village Blacksmith, st. 7 

Toll.— Toll for the brave! 

The brave that are no more ! 

Cowper, On the Loss of the Royal George, st. 1 

Tolling. — Hear the tolling of the bells — 
Iron bells ! 
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels. 

Poe, The Bells, st. 4 

Tom. — Poor Tom's a-cold. — Shakespeare, r King Lear, iii, 4 

Tomb. — When some proud son of man returns to earth, 
Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, 
The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, 
And storied urns record who rests below; 
When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, 
Not what he was, but what he should have been. 

Byron, Inscription on the Monument of a 

Newfoundland Dog, lines 1-6 

Tombs. — Gilded tombs do worms enfold. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 7 

Tommy. It 's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 

"Chuck him out, the brute! " 
But it's "Saviour of 'is country," when the guns begin 
to shoot. Kipling, Tommy 



To-morrow — Tongue 4" 

To-morrow. — To-morrow! — Why, to-morrow I may be 
Myself with Yesterday's seven thousand years. 1 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 21 

And if the wine you drink, the lip you press, 
End in what all begins and ends in — Yes ; 

Think then you are To-day what Yesterday 
You were — To-morrow you shall not be less. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 42 

To-morrow shall be like 
To-day, but much more sweet. 2 

C. G. Rossetti, The Unseen World, st 2. 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day 

To the last syllable of recorded time, 

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 

Life 's but a walking shadow, a poor player 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage 3 

And then is heard no more : it is a tale 

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 

Signifying nothing. Shakespeare, Macbeth, v, 5 

In human hearts what bolder thought can rise 
Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? 
Where is to-morrow? 

Young, Night Thoughts, I, lines 373-375 

Tongue. — Within this hollow cavern hung 
The ready, swift, and tuneful tongue: 
If Falsehood's honey it disdained, 
And when it could not praise was chained; 
If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke, 
Yet gentle concord never broke, — 
This silent tongue shall plead for thee 
When Time unveils Eternity! 

Anonymous, To a Skeleton, st. 3 

The firste vertue, sone, if thou wolt lere, 
Is to restreyne, and kepe wel thy tonge.* 

Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale, lines 228, 229 

1 To-morrow, when You shall be You no more? 

Omar KhayyAm, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 53 

2 We were, fair queen, 
Two lads that thought there was no more behind 
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, 
And to be boy eternal. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, i, 2 

3 Our little hour of strut and rave. — Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 4 

4 Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
Nor any unproportioned thought his act. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 



4 1 2 Tongue — Tongues 

When this poor lisping stammering tongue 
Lies silent in the grave. 

Cowper, Praise for the Fountain Opened, st. 5 

Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 2 

With doubler tongue 
Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, iii, 2 

Sir, would she give you so much of her lips 

As of her tongue she oft bestows on me, 

You'd have enough. Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 1 

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, 
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break; 
And rather than it shall, I will be free 
Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3 

What a spendthrift is he of his tongue! 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 1 

The tongue is a fire, 1 as you know, my dear, the tongue 
is a fire. Tennyson, The Grandmother, st. 7 

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue 
That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold 
Which Milton held. 

Wordsworth, It Is Not to Be Thought of 

Tongues. — Alas! they had been friends in youth; 
But whispering tongues can poison truth; 2 
And constancy lives in realms above; 
And life is thorny; and youth is vain; 
And to be wroth with one we love 
Doth work like madness in the brain. 

S. T. Coleridge, Christabel, II, lines 408-413 

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, 
Like softest music to attending ears! 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2 

Music of thousand tongues, formed by one tongue alone. 
M. T. Visscher, The Nightingale (trans. Bowring) 

1 James iii, 6. 

2 A tonge cutteth frendship al a- two. 

Chaucer, The Manciples Tale, line 238 



Toothache — Traveller 4 > 3 

Toothache. There was never yet philosopher 

That could endure the toothache patiently. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, i 

Tough. — He 's hard-hearted, sir, is Joe — he 's tough, sir, 
and de-vilish sly! Dickens, Dombey and Son, vii 

Tower. That tower of strength 

Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew! 
Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington, st. 4 

Tract. — I pray for grace — repent each sinful act — 
Peruse, but underneath the rose, my Bible; 
And love my neighbour, far too well, in fact, 
To call and twit him with a godly tract 
That 's turned by application to a libel. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson,' Esquire, st. 4 

Trade. — Hence merchants, unimpeachable of sin 
Against the charities of domestic life, 
Incorporated, seem at once to lose 
Their nature ; and, disclaiming all regard 
For mercy and the common rights of man, 
Build factories with blood, conducting trade 
At the sword's point, and dyeing the white robe 
Of innocent commercial justice red. 1 

Cowper, The Task : The Winter Evening, 

lines 676-683 

Traders. — Within this hour it will be dinner-time: 
Till that, I '11 view the manners of the town, 
Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings, 
And then return and sleep within mine inn, 
For with long travel I am stiff and weary. 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, i, 2 

Traveller. — A traveller between life and death. 

Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight, st. 3 

1 How long, O cruel nation, 

Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart, 

Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation, 
And tread onward to your throne amid the mart? 
Our blood splashes upward, O gold-heaper, 

And your purple shows your path! 
But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper 
Than the strong man in his wrath. 

E. B. Browning, The Cry of the Children, st. 13 

The kilns and the curt-tongued mills say Go! 
There's plenty that can, if you can't, we know. 
Move oiit, if you think you're underpaid. 
The poor are prolific ; we 're not afraid ; 

Trade is trade. Lanier, The Symphony, lines 46-50 



4'4 Treason — Troubadours 

Treason. — Treason doth never prosper : what 's the reason? 
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 1 

Sir John Harrington, Epigrams, iv, 3 
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell; 
and George the Third (Treason! cried the Speak- 
er .. . )- may profit by their example. If this be 

treason, make the most of it. Patrick Henry, 

Speech on the Resolutions Concerning 
the Stamp Act, in the Virginia Assembly, May, 1765 

Tree.— And all amid them stood the Tree of Life, 
High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit 
Of vegetable gold ; and next to Life, 
Our death, the Tree of Knowledge, grew fast by, 
Knowledge of good, bought dear by knowing ill. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 218-222 

Tremble. — I tremble for my country when I reflect that God 
is just. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia: 

Query xviii 
Trencher-man. — He is a very valiant trencher -man. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, i, 1 

Trick. — I know a trick worth two of that. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 1 

Trickled. His answer trickled through my head 

Like water through a sieve. 

C. L. Dodgson, Through the Looking-Glass, viii 

Trifle. — Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, 
And trifles life. 
Young, Love of Fame, Satire vi, lines 205-207 [208-211] 

Triton. — This Triton of the minnows. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iii, 1 
Trivial. — What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, 
What mighty contests rise from trivial things. 

Pope, Rape of the Lock, Canto i, lines 1, 2 
Troubadours. — Oh, the troubadours of old! with the gentle 
minstrelsie 
Of hope and joy, or deep despair, whiche'er their lot 

might be; 
For years they served their ladye-loves ere they their 

passions told, — 
Oh, wondrous patience must have had those trouba- 
dours of old! 

Frances Brown, Oh, the Pleasant Days of Old! 

1 Let them call it mischief ; 
When it is past, and prospered, 't will be virtue. 

Ben Jonson, Catiline, iii, 3 



Trowel— Truth 415 

Trowel. — Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 2 

True. — He serves all who dares be true. 

Emerson, The Celestial Love, st. 8 

This above all : to thine own self be true, 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 
'Tis true 'tis pity ; 
And pity 'tis 'tis true. Ibid., ii, 2 

My man 's as true as steel. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4 

Trumpet. — He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never 
call retreat ; 
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment- 
seat. Julia Ward Howe, Battle-Hymn 

of the Republic, st. 4 

Trumps. — Like a man with eight trumps in his hand at a 
whist-table. Lowell, Fable for Critics, line 40 

Trust. — Put not your trust in money, but put your money in 
trust. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ii 

This be our motto, In God is our trust. 

F. S. Key, The Star-Spangled Banner, st. 4 

What a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, 
a very simple gentleman ! I have sold all my trumpery ; 
. . . they throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets 
had been hallowed and brought a benediction to the 
buyer. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Truth. — No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the 
vantage ground of truth. Bacon, Essay I : Of Truth 

Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise 

From outward things. R. Browning, Paracelsus, i 

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; 

Th' eternal years of God are hers; 
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, 

And dies among his worshippers. 1 

Bryant, The Battle-Field, st. 

1 Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life. 

E. B. Browning, Aurora Leigh, VII, line 774 
Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a 
locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table , v 
Whoever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? 

Milton, Areopagitica 



4i 6 Truth 

Truth — Continued 

'Tis strange, — but true ; for truth is always strange ; 
Stranger than fiction. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xiv, st. 101 

"Truth," I cried, "though the Heavens crush me for 
following her; no Falsehood! though a whole celestial 
Lubberland were the price of the apostasy." 

Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, II, vii 

The good old bishops took a simpler way ; 
Each asked but what he heard his father say, 
Or how he was instructed in his youth, 
And by tradition's force upheld the truth. 

Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, lines 736-739 

I did n't know Truth was such an invalid. . . . How 
long is it since she could only take the air in a close car- 
riage, with a gentleman in a black coat on the box? 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, v 

Truth is invariable; but the Smithate of truth must 
always differ from the Brownate of truth. Ibid., xii 

The time is racked with birth-pangs ; every hour 

Brings forth some gasping truth, and truth new-born 

Looks a misshapen and untimely growth, 

The terror of the household and its shame, 

A monster coiling in its nurse's lap 

That some would strangle, some would only starve; 

But still it breathes, and — 

— moves transfigured into angel guise, 
Welcomed by all that cursed its hour of birth, 
And folded in the same encircling arms 
That cast it like a serpent from their hold. 

Holmes, Truths, lines 1-15 

Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil 
Amid the dust of books to find her, . . . 
Many in sad faith sought for her, 
Many with crossed hands sighed for her; 
But these, our brothers, fought for her, 
At life's dear peril wrought for her, 
So loved her that they died for her. 1 

Lowell, Commemoration Ode, st. 3 

Men in earnest have no time to waste 

In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. 

Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain, lines 261, 262 

1 Immortal truth 
That heroes fought for, martyrs died to save. 

Holmes, Truths, lines 31, 32 



Truth 417 

Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the 

throne, 1 — 
: Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim 

unknown, 
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above I 

his own. Lowell, The Present Crisis, st. 8 

Were truth our uttered language, angels might talk with 

men, 
And God-illumined earth should see the Golden Age 

again. — Gerald Massey, This World is Full of Beauty 

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward 
touch as the sunbeam. Milton, Doctrine and 

Discipline of Divorce, Introduction 

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but 
to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on 
the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then 
finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, 
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered 
before me. 

Sir Isaac Newton, Memoirs, by Brewster, II, xxvii 

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth, 
But the plain single vow that is vowed true. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, iv, 2 

Power i' the truth o' the cause. 

Shakespeare, Coriolanus, iii, 3 

If they speak more or less than truth, they are villains 
and the sons of darkness. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, ii, 4 

Tell truth and shame the devil! Ibid., iii, 1 

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 1 

Truth hath a quiet breast. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, i, 3 

Truth is truth 
To the end of reckoning. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, v 

Truth will come to light ; . . . truth will out. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, ii, 2 

1 Showed worth on foot, and rascals in the coach. 

Dryden, Art of Poetry, line 376 
Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps. 

J. G. Holland, Wanted 
Captive Good attending Captain 111. Shakespeare, Sonnet Ixvi 



418 Truth— Twin 

Ring in the love of truth and right. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 6 

Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, 
Nor paltered with Eternal God for power. 

Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington, st. 7 
The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell, 
Strange mansion! in the bottom of a well. 

John Wolcott, Birthday Ode 

How happy is he born and taught 
That serveth not another's will; 
Whose armour is his honest thought 
And simple truth his utmost skill! 

Sir Henry Wotton, Character of a Happy Life, st. 1 

Truths. Never earth's philosopher 

Traced, with his golden pen, 
On the deathless page, truths half so sage 
As he wrote down for men. 

C. F. Alexander, Burial of Moses, st. 7 

Truth-teller. — Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. 
Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington, st. 7 

Tub. — Every tub must stand upon its own bottom. 

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, I, Stage iii; 

Macklin, Man of the World, i, 2 

Turkey-cock. — Here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. 
Shakespeare, King Henry V, v, 1 

Twain. — They two are twain. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 1. 

Tweedle-dum — Strange ! all this difference should be 
'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee! 1 

John Byrom, Epigram on the Feuds about 

Handel and Bononcini 

Twin. — In form and feature, face and limb, 
I grew so like my brother, 
That folks got taking me for him, 

And each for one another. 
It puzzled all our kith and kin, 

It reached an awful pitch; 
For one of us was born a twin, 
And not a soul knew which. 

Henry S. Leigh, The Twins, st. 1 

1 These lines have also been attributed to Swift and Pope; they are as- 
signed to Byrom in the Chalmers edition of The English Poets (18 10). 



Type— Undefiled 419 

Type. — So careful of the type she seems, 
So careless of the single life. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, lv, st. 2 

Tyranny. A name of fear 

That tyranny shall quake to hear. 1 

Byron, The Giaour, lines 119, 120 

Where law ends, tyranny begins. 

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech on 

Wilkes's Case, Jan. 9, 1770 

Tyrant. A tyrant throned in lonely pride, 

Who loves himself, and cares for naught beside; 
Who gave thee, summoned from primeval night, 
A thousand laws, and not a single right, — 
A heart to feel, and quivering nerves to thrill, 
The sense of wrong, the death-defying will ; 
Who girt thy senses with this goodly frame, 
Its earthly glories and its orbs of flame, 
Not for thyself, unworthy of a thought, 
Poor helpless victim of a life unsought, 
But all for him, unchanging and supreme, 
The heartless centre of thy frozen scheme! 

Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson, st. 10 

Tyrants. — 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. 

Shakespeare, Pericles, i, 2 

Unborn. — The child may rue that is unborn 
The hunting of that day. 2 

R. Sheale, Chevy-Chase, 3 st. 2 

Unction. — Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Undefiled. — Clear and cool, clear and cool, 
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool; 

Cool and clear, cool and clear, 
By shining shingle, and foaming weir; 
Under the crag where the ouzel sings, 
And the ivied wall where the church-bell rings, 
Undefiled, for the undefiled ; 
Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child. 

Kingsley, Songs from the Water Babies, I, st. r 

1 [He] beckoned to the people, and in hold voice and clear 
Poured thick and fast the burning words which tyrants quake to hear. 

Macaulay, Virginia, st. 5 
2 The woe's to come; the children yet unborn 
Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, iv 
3 There are very many versions of this old ballad; the one here quoted be- 
longing to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. 



420 Undisputed — United 

Undisputed. — Thou say 'st an undisputed thing 

In such a solemn way. Holmes, To an Insect, st. i 

Unfaltering. — And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, 
With knee to man unbent, 
Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, 
To his red grave he went. 

Sir F. H. Doyle, The Private of the Buffs, st. 4 

Unfortunate. — One more unfortunate, 
Weary of breath, 
Rashly importunate, 
Gone to her death! Hood, The Bridge of Sighs 

Unhand. Unhand me, gentlemen! 

By heaven I '11 make a ghost of him that lets me! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 4 
Uniform. — The uniform 'e wore 

Was nothin' much before, 

An' rather less than 'arf o' that be 'ind, 

For a piece o' twisty rag 

An' a goatskin water -bag 

Was all the field-equipment 'e could find. 

Kipling, Gunga Din, st. 2 

Union. — We join ourselves to no party that does not carry 
the flag and keep step to the music of the Union. 

Rufus Choate, Letter to Massachusetts Whig 

Convention, Oct. 1, 1855 

The Federal Union — it must be preserved. 

Andrew Jackson, Toast on the Jefferson 

Birthday Celebration, 1830 
The flag of our Union for ever. 

G. P. Morris, The Flag of Our Union 

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last 
time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on 
the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious 
Union, on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on 
a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in 
fraternal blood. — Daniel Webster, Second Speech on 

Foote's Resolution {The Reply to Hayne), Jan. 26, 1830 

United. — United we stand- — divided we fall! 1 2 

G. P. Morris, The Flag of Our Union 

x The motto of the State of Missouri. 

2 By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. 

John Dickinson, Liberty Song 

" We must indeed all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang sepa- 
rately.'' Benjamin Franklin,* cited in J. T. Morse, 
Benjamin Franklin, viii 

* Said at the time of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. 



Unkind — Usurer 421 

Unkind. — Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, i 

Unkindliness. — Killed with inutterable unkindliness. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, line 884 

Unkindness. Give me a bowl of wine. 

In this I bury all unkindness. 

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, iv, 3 

Unknown. — Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, line 830 

Unrewarded. — Nothing went unrewarded but desert. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I, line 560 

Urn. — Can storied urn, or animated bust, 

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, 
Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? 
Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, st. 1 2 

Usance. — I hate him for he is a Christian, 
But more for that in low simplicity 
He lends out money gratis and brings down 
The rate of usance here with us in Venice. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 3 

Use. — Use almost can change the stamp of nature. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 

Use gave me fame at first, and fame again 

Increasing gave me use 

I rather dread the loss of use than fame. 

Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien, lines 491, 492, 517 

Uses. — To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why 
may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, 
till he find it stopping a bung-hole? ... As thus: 
Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander re- 
turneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make 
loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, 
might they not stop a beer -barrel ? 

Imperious [Imperial] Caesar, dead and turned to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : 
Oh, that that [the] earth, which kept the world in awe, 
Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Usurer. — The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, be- 
cause his plough goeth every Sunday. 

Bacon, Essay XLI : Of Usury 



422 Utopianism — Valour 

Utopianism. — Utopianism : that is another of the devil's pet 
words. I believe the quiet admission which we are all 
of us so ready to make, that because things have long 
been wrong, it is impossible they should ever be right, 
is one of the most fatal sources of misery and crime. 

Ruskin, Architecture and Painting, iii 

Vagrom. — Dogberry. You are thought here to be the most 
senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; 
therefore bear you the lantern. This is your charge: 
you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid 
any man stand in the prince's name. 

Second Watch. How if a' will not stand? 
Dogberry. Why, then, take no note of him, but let him 
go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together and 
thank God you are rid of a knave. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 3 

Valentine. — To-morrow is Saint Valentine's Day, 
All in the morning betime, 
And I a maid at your window, 

To be your Valentine. Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Valiant. — Thou may'st be valiant in a better cause; 
But now thou seem 'st a coward. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 4 

I do not think a braver gentleman, 
More active-valiant or more valiant-young, 
More daring or more bold, is now alive 
To grace this latter age with noble deeds. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 1 

As valiant as the wrathful dove or most magnanimous 
mouse. Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iii, 2 

Ring in the valiant man and free. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 8 

Valley. — Love is of the valley. 

Tennyson, The Princess, line 183 

Valour. He 

That kills himself t' avoid misery, fears it, 
And at the best shows but a bastard valour : 
This life's a fort committed to my trust, 
Which I must not yield up till it be forced ; 
Nor will I: he's not valiant that dares die, 1 
But he that nobly hears calamity. 

P. Massinger, The Maid of Honour, iv, 3 

1 Cf . Coward. 



Valour — Vengeance 423 

The better part of valour is discretion. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part I, v, 4 

Ten to one is no impeach of valour. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 4 

You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, 
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard. 

Shakespeare, King John, ii, 1 

In a false quarrel there is no true valour. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 

My valour is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I 
feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, v, 3 

Vampyrism. — Long illness is the real vampyrism ; think of 

living a year or two after one is dead, by sucking the 

life-blood out of a frail young creature at one's bedside! 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ix 

Variety. — Variety 's the very spice of life, 
That gives it all its flavour. 1 

Cowper, The Task: The Time-Piece, lines 606, 607 

Vaux. — I wonder if Brougham thinks as much as he talks, 
Said a punster, perusing a trial : 
I vow, since his Lordship was made Baron Vaux, 
He 's been Vaux et pr&terea nihil! 

Anonymous, A Voice, and Nothing Else 

Veil. — There was the Door to which I found no Key; 
There was the Veil through which I could not see; 

Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee 
There was — and then no more of Thee and Me. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 32 

Veins. — But long o' her his veins 'ould run 
All crinkly, like curled maple. 

Lowell, The Courtin', st. 10 

Vengeance. — Roused the vengeance blood alone could quell. 
Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 23 

Vengeance to God alone belongs; 

But when I think on all my wrongs, 

My blood is liquid flame! Scott, Marmion, vi, 7 

1 Variety alone gives joy; 
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. 

Prior, The Turtle and Sparrow, lines 234, 235 



424 Vengeance — Vice 

Can vengeance be pursued further than death? 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 3 

Old Brown 
Osawatomie Brown, 
Raised his right hand up to heaven, calling Heaven's 
vengeance down. E. C. Stedman, How Old 

Brown Took Harper's Ferry, st. 4 

Venice. — I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; 
A palace and a prison on each hand. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 1 

Venom. — We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns, 
Which live like venom where no venom else 
But only they have privilege to live. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, ii, 1 

Venture. — Vessels large may venture more, 
But little boats should keep near shore. 

Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac 

Ventures. — My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 

Venus. — Venus smiles not in a house of tears. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iv, 1 

Verbosity. — He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer 
than the staple of his argument. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v, 1 

Verse. — Who says in verse what others say in prose. 1 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle i, 

line 202 
Verses. — Tear him for his bad verses. 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iii, 3 

Veteran. — Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. 

Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 308 

Vice.— When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 
The post of honour is a private station. 

Addison, Cato, iv, 4 

Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. 
Burke, On the French Revolution 

1 Prose poets like blank verse. Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 201 

Prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. 

Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, line 236 [241] 
Whose [Emerson's] prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows, 

Is some of it pr no, 'tis not even prose. 

Lowell, Fable for Critics, lines 530, 531 



Vice — Victory 425 

Before any vice can fasten on a man, body, mind, or 
moral nature must be debilitated. The mosses and fungi 
gather on sickly trees, not thriving ones; and the odious 
parasites which fasten on the human frame choose that 
which is already enfeebled. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vhi 

If he does really think that there is no distinction be- 
tween virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses 
let us count our spoons. 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1763 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; 1 
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 217-220 

There is no vice so simple but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

Vices. — The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to plague us. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, v, 3 

Vicissitudes. — The sad vicissitudes of things. 

R. Gifford, Contemplation 

Victory. — A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings 
home full numbers. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, i, 1 

"What they fought each other for, 
I could not well make out ; 
But everybody said," quoth he, 
"Tha,t 'twas a famous victory." 

"With fire and sword the country round 

Was wasted far and wide, 
And many a childing mother then, 

And new-born baby, died; 
But things like that, you know, must be 
At every famous victory." 

"But what good came of it at last? " 

Quoth little Peterkin. 
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he; 
"But 't was a famous victory." 

Southey, Battle of Blenheim, st. 6, 8, 11 

1 Truth has such a face and such a mien 
As to be loved needs only to be seen. 

Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, lines 33, 34 



426 Villain — Virgins 

Villain. — If God writes a legible hand, that fellow's a villain. 
James Quin (speaking of Charles Macklin's 
features), cited in Watkins' Biographical Dictionary 



villain, villain, smiling damned villain! 
My tables. — meet it is I set it down, 

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

Hamlet. There 's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark 
But he 's an arrant knave. 

Horatio. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from 
the grave 
To tell us this. Ibid. 

Villainy. — Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, 
For villainy is not without such rheum. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 3 

Vine. — You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse 

1 made a second marriage in my house; 

Divorced old barren Reason from my bed, 
And took the Daughter of the Vine to spouse. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 55 

Vintners. I wonder often what the vintners buy 

One half so precious as the stuff they sell. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 95 

Violet. — And from his ashes may be made 
The violet of his native land. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xviii, st. 1 

Violets. — Weep no more, lady, weep no more, 
Thy sorrowe is in vaine ; 
For violets pluckt the sweetest showers 
Will ne'er make grow againe. 

Thomas Percy, The Friars of Orders Gray, st. 12 

Lay her i' the earth : 
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 
May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, 
A ministering angel shall my sister be, 
When thou liest howling. Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Virgins. — Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, 
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine. 

Byron, Bride of Abydos, Canto i, st. 1 



Virtue— Vision 427 

Virtue. — Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when 
they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best 
discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue. 

Bacon, Essay V: Of Adversity 

Virtue is its own reward! 1 John Home, Dottglas, hi, i 

Underneath this stone doth lie 
As much beauty as could die : 
Which in life did harbour give 
To more virtue than doth live. 

Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. 

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide; 
In part she is to blame that has been tried — 
He comes too near that comes to be denied. 

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Lady's 

Resolve, lines 9-1 1 

Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 
"Virtue alone is happiness below." 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 309, 310 

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iii, 4 



Virtuous. — For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds ; 
And though a late a sure reward succeeds. 

Congreve, Mourning Bride, v, 3 

Sir Toby. Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, 
there shall be no more cakes and ale? 

Clown. Yes, by Saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot 
i' the mouth too. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 3 

Visage. That large-moulded man, 

His visage all agrin as at a wake, 
Made at me through the press. 

Tennyson, The Princess, v, lines 509-511 

Vision. — At the dead of the night a sweet vision I saw, 
And thrice ere the morning I dreamt it again. 

Campbell, The Soldier's Dream, st. 2 

1 Why to true merit should they have regard? 
They know that virtue is its own reward. 

Gay, Epistle to Paul Methuen, lines 41, 42 

Virtue is to herself the best reward. Henry More, Cupid's Conflict 



428 Vision— Vows 

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, 
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and 
Are melted into air, into thin air: 
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on, 1 and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

Shakespeare, The Tempest, iv, i 

Vital. — Vital spark of heavenly flame ! 
Quit, oh quit this mortal frame. 2 

Pope, The Dying Christian to His Soul, st. i 

Voice. — Give every man thy [thine] ear, but few thy voice. 
Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, v, 3 

I hear a voice you cannot hear, 
Which says I must not stay, 
I see a hand you cannot see, 

Which beckons me away. Tickell, Colin and Lucy 

Vows. — Thy vows are all broken, 
And light is thy fame ; 
I hear thy name spoken, 
And share in its shame. 

Byron, When We Two Parted, st. 2 

Yet now she says those words were air, 

Those vows were written all in water, 
And, by the lamp that saw her swear, 

Has yielded to the first that sought her. 
J. H. Merivale, The Vow (from the Greek of Meleager) 

Those mouth-made vows, 
Which break themselves in swearing! 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, i, 3 

1 Wrought of such stuffs as dreams are; and as baseless 
As the fantastic visions of the evening. 

Nathaniel Cotton, To-Morrow, lines 15, 16 

' 2 Soon may this fluttering spark of vital flame 
Forsake its languid melancholy frame. 

Campbell, Love and Madness, st. 12 



Vows— Waiting 429 

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 

Lends the tongue vows. 1 Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 3 

By all the vows that ever men have broke, 
In number more than ever women spoke. 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night's Dream, i, 1 

Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3 

Wager. Most men (till by losing rendered sager) 

Will back their own opinions with a wager. 

Byron, Beppo, st. 27 

Waist. — Her waist is ampler than her life, 

For life is but a span. Holmes, My Aunt, st. 1 

Wait. — Those who wait the coming rider travel twice as far 
as he ; 
Tired wench and coming butter never did in time agree. 
Bret Harte, Concepcion de Arguello, iii, st. 13 

They also serve who only stand and wait. 

Milton, Sonnet on His Blindness 

Waiting. — Only waiting till the shadows 
Are a little longer grown, 
Only waiting till the glimmer 

Of the day's last beam is flown ; 
Till the night of earth is faded 

From the heart, once full of day ; 
Till the stars of heaven are breaking 
Through the twilight soft and grey. 

F. L. Mace, "Only Waiting." 

iFain would I say, "Forgive my foul offence! " 
Fain promise never more to disobey; 
But, should my Author health again dispense, 
Again I might desert fair Virtue's way. 

Burns, In the Prospect of Death, st. 1 
What shall I do? Make vows and break them still? 

'Twill be but labor lost! 
My good cannot prevail against mine ill: 
The business will be crost. 

O, say not so; thou canst not tell what strength 

Thy God may give thee at the length: 
Renew thy vows, and if thou keep the last, 

Thy God will pardon all that 's past 
Vow while thou canst; while thou canst vow, thou mayst 

Perhaps perform it when thou thinkest least. 



Then once again 
I vow to mend my ways ; 

Lord, say Amen, 
And thine be all the praise. 

George Herbert, Vows Broken and Renewed, st. 2, 3 



43° Walks— War 

Walks. — She walks in beauty, like the night 
Of cloudless climes and starry skies. 

Byron, She Walks in Beauty, st. i 

Wall. — The weakest goes to the wall. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, i 

Walrus. — "The time has come," the Walrus said, 
' ' To talk of many things : 
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — 
Of cabbages — and kings." 
C. L. Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll"), Through the 

Looking-Glass, iv 

Want. — For only one short hour 
To feel as I used to feel, 
Before I knew the woes of want 
And the walk that costs a meal! 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt, st. 9 

The more you have, 
The more you want. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle ii, 

lines 213, 214 
Ring out the want, the care, the sin. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 5 

War. My voice is still for war. l 

Gods! can a Roman senate long debate 
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death! 

Addison, Cato, ii, 1 

Just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no 
blow given, is a lawful cause of a war. 

Bacon, Essay XIX: Of Empire 

It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be pre- 
ferred before a just war. 2 

S. Butler, Speeches in the Rump Parliament 

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, 
Kings would not play at. 

Cowper, The Task : The Winter Morning Walk, 

lines 187, 188 

1 War, war is still the cry, "war even to the knife!"* 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, st. 86 
My sentence is for open war. Milton, Paradise Lost, II, line 51 

2 There never was a good war or a bad peace. 

Franklin, Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. n, 1773 

* This was the answer of General Palafox at Saragoza when summoned to 
surrender by the French besieging army. 



War 431 

War, he sung, is toil and trouble, 
Honour but an empty bubble. 

Dryden, Alexander's Feast, v, 5 

Both parties deprecated war ; but one of them would 
make war rather than let the nation survive ; and the 
other would accept war rather than let it perish. And 
the war came. 

Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 

Ez fer war, I call it murder, — 

There you hev it plain an' flat ; 
I don't want to go no furder 

Than my testyment fer that : 

An' you 've gut to git up airly 
Ef you want to take in God. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, I, i, st. 5 

With good old idees o' wut's right an' wut ain't, 
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage, 

An' thet eppyletts worn't the best mark of a saint. 

Ibid., iii, st. 5 
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, 

I sign to thet with all my heart, — 
But civlyzation does git forrid 

Sometimes upon a powder-cart. Ibid., vii, st. 5 

Long peace, I find, 
But nurses dangerous humours up to strength, 
License and wanton rage, which war alone 
Can purge away. D. Mallet, Mustapha 

War, then, war 
Open or understood, must be resolved. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 661, 662 

In war the moral element and public opinion are half 
the battle. 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, IV, 28 

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. 

Porteous, Death, line 178 

I have seen war's lightning flashing, 
Seen the claymore with bayonet clashing, 
Seen through red blood the war-horse dashing, 
And scorned, amid the reeling strife, 
To yield a step for death or life. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto v, st. 2 1 



432 War— War-drum 

The harsh and boisterous tongue of war. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, i 

The poor souls for whom this hungry war 
Opens his vasty jaws. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, ii, 4 

In war was never lion raged more fierce, 
In peace was never gentle lamb more mild. 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, ii, 1 

The purple testament of bleeding war. Ibid., iii, 3 

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; 
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds 
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, 
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber 
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 1 

War is a virtue, — weakness a sin. 

C. D. Shanly, Civil War 

War is hell. 1 W. T. Sherman 2 

Satan gave thereat his tail 
A twirl of admiration; 
For he thought of his daughter War 
And her suckling babe Taxation. 

Southey, The Devil's Walk, st. 10 

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual 
means of preserving peace. 

George Washington, Speech to Both Houses of 

Congress, Jan. 8, 1790 

Warble. Sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, 

Warble his native wood-notes wild. 

Milton, U Allegro, lines 133, 134 

War-drum. — The war-drum of the white man 'round the 
world. Kipling, The Song of the Banjo, st. 4 

1 This is the soldier brave enough to tell 
The glory-dazzled world that "war is hell"; 
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife, 
And rides through hell to save his country's life. 

Henry van Dyke, On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman 

War is a terrible trade. 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, iv, line 13s 

2 This saying is commonly ascribed to Gen. Sherman, but has never been 
definitely located in any of his writings or speeches, 



War-drum — Wars 433 

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- 
flags were furled 
In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 127, 128 

Warfare. — The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the 

good; 
I watched the battle from afar as one that understood 
The shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering 

fight — 
How few they are that see it clear, how few that wage it 

right! Henry van Dyke, Another Chance, st. 5 

Warmth. What can match, to solve a learned doubt, 

The warmth within that comes from "cold without"? 
Holmes, A Modest Request: The Toast, lines 49, 50 

Warrant. — I hope your warrant will bear out the deed. 

Shakespeare, King John, iv, 1 

Warrior. — But when the warrior dieth, 
His comrades of the war, 
With arms reversed and muffled drums, 

Follow the funeral car. 
They show the banners taken, 

They tell his battles won, 
And after him lead his masterless steed, 
While peals the minute-gun. 

C. F. Alexander, Burial of Moses, st. 5 

He lay like a warrior taking his rest 
With his martial cloak around him. 

Charles Wolfe, Burial of Sir John Moore, st. 3 

Warriors. — The stern joy which warriors feel 
In foemen worthy of their steel. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto v, st. 10 

Wars. — Why then are you not contented? 
Why then will you hunt each other? 
I am weary of your quarrels, 
Weary of your wars and bloodshed, 
Weary of your prayers for vengeance, 
Of your wrangles and dissensions ; 
All your strength is in your union, 
All your danger is in discord ; 
Therefore be at peace henceforward, 
And as brothers live together. 

Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha: The Peace- 

Pipe, lines 106-115 



434 Wars— Watches 

What would you have me do? go to the wars, 
would you? where a man may serve seven years for the 
loss of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to 
buy him a wooden one? Shakespeare, Pericles, iv, 6 

Ring out the thousand wars of old. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, st. 7 

Washington. — Where may the wearied eye repose, 
When gazing on the great; 
Where neither guilty glory glows, 

Nor despicable state? 
Yes — one — ■ the first — the last — the best — 
The Cincinnatus of the West, 
Whom envy dared not hate, 
Bequeathed the name of Washington, 
To make man blush there was but one! 

Byron, Additional Stanzas to the Ode to 

Napoleon Bonaparte, st. 1 9 

Waspish. — If I be waspish, best beware my sting. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, ii 

Wasted. — Oh, the wasted hours of life 

That have drifted by! 
Oh, the good that might have been — 

Lost, without a sigh! 
Love that we might once have saved 

By a single word, 
Thoughts conceived, but never penned, 

Perishing unheard ; 
Take the proverb to thine heart, 

Take, and hold it fast — 
"The mill cannot grind 

With the water that is past." 
Sarah Doudney, The Lesson of the Water Mill, st. 5 

Watch. — "Wal'r, ... a parting gift, my lad. Put it back 
half an hour every morning, and about another quarter 
towards the arternoon, and it's a watch that'll do you 
credit." Dickens, Dombey and Son, xix 

For the watch to babble ... is most toler- 
able and not to be endured. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, hi, 3 

Watches. — 'T is with our judgments as our watches, none 
Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 9, 10 



Watchman— Waterloo 435 

Watchman. — "What of the night, watchman? 
What of the night?" 
" Cloudy — all quiet; 

No land yet — all 's right.". 
Be wakeful, be vigilant; 

Danger may be 
At an hour when all seemeth 
Securest to thee. 
C. A. B. Southey, Christian Mariner's Hymn, st. 3 

Water. — Water, water, every where, 
And all the boards did shrink; 
Water, water, every where 
Nor any drop to drink. 1 

Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, lines 1 19-122 

The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 

R. Crashaw, Translation of Divine Epigram on 

John ii 

Oh, water for me! Bright water for me! 2 

Edward Johnson, The Water-Drinker, st. 1 

I came like water, and like wind I go. 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 28 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II, iii, 1 

More water glideth by the mill 
Than wots the miller of ; and easy it is 
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. 

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ii, 1 

'T is a little thing 
To give a cup of water ; yet its draught 
Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, 
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame 
More exquisite than when nectarean juice 
Renews the life- of joy in happier hours. 

Sir T. N. Talfourd, Ion, i, 2 

Waterloo. — The grave of France, the deadly Waterloo. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 18 

1 In midst of water I complain of thirst. 

Dryden, Iphis and lanthe, line 144 

2 Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er 
left man i' the mire. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, i, 2 



436 Waters— Weak 

Waters. — How gloriously her gallant course she goes! 
Her white wings flying — never from her foes — 
She walks the waters like a thing of life, 1 
And seems to dare the elements to strife. 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 3 

The hell ©f waters! where they howl and hiss, 
And boil in endless torture. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 69 

The world of waters is our home, 
And merry men are we. 

A. Cunningham, A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea 

Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. 

Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3] 

Waves. — Once more upon the waters! yet once more! 
And the waves bound beneath me as a steed 
That knows his rider. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 2 

The waves with all their white crests dancing 
Come, like thick-plumed squadrons, to the shore 
Gallantly bounding. Sir A. Hunt, Julian 

Wax. — Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, 
I quickly were dissolved from my hive, 
To give some labourers room. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 2 

Way. She hath a way, 

Anne Hathaway; 
To make grief bliss, Anne hath a way. 

Anonymous, Anne Hathaway 

The way was long, the wind was cold, 
The Minstrel was infirm and old. 

Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Introduction 

Weak. To be weak is miserable, 

Doing or suffering. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, I, lines 157, 158 

And if my heart and flesh are weak 

To bear an untried pain, 
The bruised reed He will not break, 

But strengthen and sustain. 

Whittier, The Eternal Goodness, st. 17 

1 The master bold, . . . 
Who ruled her like a thing of life 

Amid the crested wave! — L. H. Sigourney, The Bell of the Wreck, st. 2 



Weakness — Wedges 437 

Weakness. — Laments the weakness of these latter times. 

Thomson, The Seasons: Autumn, line 569 

Weapons. — The race that shortens its weapons lengthens its 
boundaries. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, i 

Wear. Really and truly — I 've nothing to wear. 

W. A. Butler, Nothing to Wear 

Weariness. Weariness 

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iii, 6 

Weary. — Well may the children weep before you! 
They are weary ere they run; 
They have never seen the sunshine, nor the glory 
Which is brighter than the sun. 

E. B. Browning, The Cry of the Children, st. 12 

I will arise, O Christ, when thou callest me; but oh! 
let me rest awhile, for I am very weary. 

Epitaph in a German churchyard, quoted by 

W. E. H. Lecky, Map of Life, xvi 

Web-feet. — Nor must Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgotten. 
. . . Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the 
rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and 
wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been 
and made their tracks. 

Lincoln, Letter to J. C. Conkling, Aug. 26, 1863 

Wed. — So these were wed, and merrily rang the bells. 

Tennyson, Enoch Arden, line 80 

Wedded. — Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source 
Of human offspring! 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IV, lines 750, 751 

Wedding. — Wedding is great Juno's crown. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 4 

Wedding-bells. — Hear the mellow wedding-bells, 
Golden bells! 
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells. 

Poe, The Bells, st. 2 

Wedges. — Never an axe had seen their chips, 

And the wedges flew from between their lips, 
Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips. 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 5 



438 Wedlock — Welcome 

Wedlock. Wedlock without love, some say, 

Is but a lock without a key. 

Butler, Hudibras, II, i, lines 321, 322 

Lawful awful wedlock. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xi, st. 89 

Weeds. — Great weeds do grow apace. 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, ii, 4 

Idle weeds are fast in growth. Ibid., iii, 1 

Weep. — Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon. 

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, v, 3 

I cannot choose but weep, to think that they 
should lay him i' the cold ground. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 5 

Oh, I could weep 
My spirit from mine eyes! 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, iv, 3 

Weeping. — A little weeping would ease my heart, 
But in their briny bed 
My tears must stop, for every drop 
Hinders needle and thread! 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt 

I am not prone to weeping, as our sex 

Commonly are. Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, ii, 1 

Weeps. Look, the good man weeps! 

He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother! 
I swear he is true-hearted ; and a soul 
None better in my kingdom. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, v, 1 

Welcome. — 'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark 
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 
'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark 
Our coming, and look brighter when we come. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 123 

To say you're [you are] welcome were superfluous. 

Shakespeare, Pericles, ii, 3 

Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3 



Well— Whipped 439 

Well. — Were 't the last drop in the well, 
And I gasping on the brink, 1 
Ere my fainting spirit fell, 

'T is to thee that I would drink. 

Byron, Lines to Moore, st. 4 

Werther. — Werther had a love for Charlotte 
Such as words could never utter ; 
Would you know how first he met her? 
She was cutting bread and butter. 

Thackeray, Sorrows of Werther, st. 1 

Westminster. — Westminster Abbey or victory! 

Horatio, Viscount Nelson, Exclamation at 

the battle of Cape St. Vincent 

Westward-Ho. — Olivia. There lies your way, due west. 
Viola. Then westward-ho! 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 1 

Wether. — I am a tainted wether of the flock, 
Meetest for death. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1 

Wethers. — To return to our wethers. 2 Rabelais, I, i 

Whale. — His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak ; 
His line a cable which in storms ne'er broke ; 
His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, 
And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale. 

W. King, Upon a Giant's Angling 

Wheels. — All day the iron wheels go onward, 
Grinding life down from its mark ; 
And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward, 
Spin on blindly in the dark. 

E. B. Browning, The Cry of the Children, st. 8 

And wheels [bicycles'] rush in where horses fear to 
tread. — Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vii, Note 

Whip. — O heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold, 
And put in every honest hand a whip 
To lash the rascals naked through the world. 

Shakespeare, Othello, iv, 2 

Whipped. — Thou shalt be whipped with wire, and stewed 
in brine, 
Smarting in lingering pickle. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5 

1 Another reading is : As I gasped upon the brink. 

2 Usually quoted ' 'muttons" from the French word moutons. 



44° Whipping — Whistling 

Whipping. — Use every man after his desert, and who should 
[shall] 'scape whipping? Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

She shall have whipping — cheer enough. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 4 

Whiskey. — No wonder that those Irish lads 
Should be so gay and frisky, 
For sure St. Pat he taught them that, 

As well as making whiskey ; 
No wonder that the saint himself 

Should understand distilling, 
Since his mother kept a shebeen shop 
In the town of Enniskillen. 

Henry Bennett, St. Patrick Was a Gentleman 

Freedom and whiskey gang thegither! 

Burns, Prayer to the Scotch Representatives, ad finem 

Peat whiskey hot, 
Tempered with well-boiled water! 
These make the long night shorter, — 

Forgetting not 
Good stout old English porter. 

R. H. Messinger, A Winter Wish, st. 1 

Whistle. — Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad; 
Though father and mither and a' should gae mad. 

Burns, Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, st. 1 

As clear as a whistle. 

John Byrom, Epistle to Lloyd, st. 12 

With mug in hand to wet his whistle. 

Cotton, Virgil Travestie, line 6 

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. 

Franklin, The Whistle, November, 17 19 

The maiden laughed out in her innocent glee, — 

"What a fool of yourself with your whistle you'd make! 

For only consider, how silly 't would be 

To sit there and whistle for — what you might take! " 
Robert Story, The Whistle 

Whistled. — He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 
And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 

Dryden, Cymon and Iphigcnia, lines 84, 85 

Whistling. — The school-boy, with his satchel in his hand, 
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. 

R. Blair, The Grave 



White wood — Widow 44' 

Whitewood. — The panels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese, 
But lasts like iron for things like these. 

Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, st. 5 

Why. — Whatever skeptic could enquire for, 
For ev'ry why he had a wherefore. 1 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 131, 132 

The "why" is plain as way to parish church. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

Wicked. — She never followed wicked ways — 
Unless when she was sinning. 

Goldsmith, Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize, st. 3 

I 's wicked — I is. I 's mighty wicked, anyhow. I 
can't help it. H. B. Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, xx 

Wickliffe. — The Avon to the Severn runs, 
The Severn to the sea; 
And Wickliffe' s dust shall spread abroad, 
Wide as the waters be. 2 

Daniel Webster, Address before the "Sons of _ 

New Hampshire ' ' 

Widow. — He died of the slow fever called the tertian, 
And left his widow to her own aversion. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 34 
Widow Machree, and when winter comes in, 

Och hone! Widow Machree, 
To be poking the fire all alone is a sin, 

Och hone! Widow Machree. 
Sure the shovel and tongs 
To each other belongs, 
And the kettle sings songs 

Full of family glee; 
While alone with your cup, 
Like a hermit, you sup, 

Och hone! Widow Machree. 

Samuel Lover, Widow Machree, st. 3 

1 Every why hath a wherefore. 



Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, 

When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, ii, 2 
2 Flung to the heedless winds, 
Or on the waters cast, 
The martyrs' ashes, watched, 

Shall gathered be at last; 
And from that scattered dust, 

Around us and abroad, 
Shall spring a plenteous seed 
Of witnesses for God. 

Martin Luther, The Martyrs' Hymn (trans. W. J. Fox) 



442 Widow — Wife 

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye 

That thou consum'st thyself in single life f 

Shakespeare, Sonnet ix 

V faith, he'll have a lusty widow now. 
That shall be wooed and wedded in a day. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, iv, 2 

Widower. — Tears of the widower, when he sees 
A late-lost form that sleep reveals, 
And moves his doubtful arms, and feels 
Her place is empty. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xiii, st. 1 

Widows. — If for widows you die, 
Learn to kiss, not to sigh. 

Charles Lever, Widow Malone, st. 6 

Widow-maker. It grieves my soul, 

That I must draw this metal from my side 

To be a widow-maker! — Shakespeare, King John, v, 2 

Wife. — He that hath wife and children hath given hostages 
to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- 
prises, either of virtue or mischief. 

Bacon, Essay VIII : Of Marriage and Single Life 

What is it, then, to have or have no wife, 
But single thraldom or a double strife? 

Bacon, The World, st. 3 
What is there in the vale of life 
Half so delightful as a wife, 
When friendship, love, and peace combine 
To stamp the marriage bond divine? 

Cowper, Love Abused, lines 1-4 

The faithful wife, without debate. 

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Means 

to Attain Happy Life 

The world goes up and the world goes down, 

And the sunshine follows the rain; 
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown 

Can never come over again, 
Sweet wife ; 

No, never come over again. 

For woman is warm though man be cold, 

And the night will hallow the day; 
Till the heart which at even was weary and old 
Can rise in the morning gay, 

Sweet wife ; 
To its work in the morning gay 

Kingsley, Dolcino to Margaret 



Wife— Willing 443 

Sail forth into the sea of life, 
gentle, loving, trusting wife! 

Longfellow, Building of the Ship, st. 24 

The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, 
Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, 
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, lines 267-269 

All these good parts a perfect woman make ; 
Add love to me, they make a perfect wife j 1 
Without her love, her beauty I should take, 
As that of pictures, dead ; that gives it life ; 

Till then her beauty, like the sun, doth shine 

Alike to all ; that only makes it mine. 

Sir T. Overbury, A Wife 

You are my true and honourable wife, 
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. 2 

Shakespeare, Julius Ccesar, ii, 1 

Wilderness. — The wilderness shall blossom as the rose. 3 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, line 649 

Will. — Be there a will, and wisdom finds the way. 

G. Crabbe, The Birth of Flattery, st. 18 

At war 'twixt will and will not. 4 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 

Willie Winkie. — Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, 
Up stairs and doon stairs, in his nicht-gown, 
Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, 
"Are the weans in their bed? — for it 's now ten o'clock." 
W. Miller, Willie Winkie, st. 1 

Willing. — Barkis is willin'. — Dickens, David Copperfield, I, v 

: A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, 
Doubling his pleasures and his cares dividing, 
Winning hirh back when mingling in the throng, 
Back from a world we love, alas! too long, 
To fireside happiness, to hours of ease, 
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. 

Samuel Rogers, Human Life 

2 Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, 

Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. — Gray, The Bard, i, 3 

Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life ; 

Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee. 

T. Otway, Venice Preserved, v, i 

3 The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. Isaiah xxxv, 1 

4 What I will not, that I cannot do. 

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 2 
We would, and we would not. Ibid., iv, 4 



444 Willow — Wine 

Willow. — There is a willow grows aslant a brook, 
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 7 

Win. — Heads I win, — ditto tails. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, Jonathan to John, st. 4 

Wind. 'T was but the wind. 

Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 22 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude ; 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 

Although thy breath be rude. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, ii, 7 

111 blows the wind that profits nobody. 1 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, ii, 5 

Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, 
Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 

More inconstant than the wind, who woos 
Even now the frozen bosom of the north, 
And, being angered, puffs away from thence, 
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, i, 4 

Windows. — Windows of her mind. 

John Chalkhill, The Dwelling of Orandra 

Wine. — Wine and Truth, is the saying. — Buckley, Theocritus 

Few things surpass old wine: and they may preach 
Who please, — the more because they preach in vain, — 
Let us have wine and women, 2 mirth and laughter, 
Sermons and soda-water the day after. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 178 

1 Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol? 
Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 3 
Except winde stands as never it stood, 

It is an ill winde turnes none to good. — Thomas Tusser, Five Hun- 
dred Points of Good Husbandry : The Properties of Winds 

2 Then comes witching wine again, 

With glorious woman in its train. T. Moore, Odes of Anacreon 

Who loves not wine, woman, and song, 

He is a fool his whole life long ! Thackeray, A Credo 



Wine — Wisdom - 445 

It [wine] helps the headache, cough, and phthisic, 
And is for all diseases physic. 

John Fletcher, Drink To-Day, st. 2 

Fill every beaker up, my men, 

Pour forth the cheering wine ; 
There's life and strength in every drop, — 

Thanksgiving to the vine! 

A. G. Greene, The Baron's Last Banquet, st. 7 

If with water you fill up your glasses, 

You'll never write anything wise; 

For wine 's the true horse of Parnassus, 

Which carries a bard to the skies! 

T. Moore, from the Anthologia, cited in note 

to Odes of Anacreon 

A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber 1 
in't. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii, 1 

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name 
to be known by, let us call thee devil! 

Shakespeare, Othello, ii, 3 

Jars were made to drain, I think, 
Wine, I know, was made to drink. 

R. H. Stoddard, Persian Songs: The Jar, st. 1 



Wisdom. — The strongest plume in wisdom's pinion 
Is the memory of past folly. 

S. T. Coleridge, To an Unfortunate Woman, st. 



As if wisdom's old potato could not nourish at its root? 
Holmes, Nux Postccenatica, st. 7 

To observations which ourselves we make, 
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake ; 
To written wisdom, as another's, less. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle i, lines 11-13 

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, iv, 2 

With wisdom fraught, 
^ Not such as books, but such as practice taught. 

Waller, On the King's Return 

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop 
Than when we soar. 

Wordsworth, The Excursion : Despondency, 

lines 232, 233 
The man of wisdom is the man of years. 

Young, Night Thoughts, V, line 775 

1 With no allaying Thames. Lovelace, To Althei from Prison, st. 2 



44> Wise— Wit 

Wise. Much too wise to walk into a well. 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle ii, line 191 

Thou think' st it folly to be wise too soon. 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, line 47 

Wiseacres. — Down deep in a hollow some wiseacres sit, 
Like a toad in his cell in the stone ; 
Around them in daylight the blind owlets flit, 
And their creeds are with ivy o'ergrown. 



Contented to dwell deep down in the well 
Or move like the snail in the crust of his shell, 
Or live like the toad in his narrow abode, 
With their souls closely wedged in a thick wall of stone, 
By the grey weeds of prejudice rankly o'ergrown. 

R. S. Nichols, The PhUosopher Toad 

Wisest. So well to know 

Her own, that what she wills to do or say 
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII, lines 548-550 

He is oft the wisest man, 
Who is not wise at all. 

Wordsworth, The Oak and the Broom, st. 7 

Wish. — Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, iv, 5 [4] 

A wish, that she hardly dared to own, 
For something better than she had known. 

Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 6 

Wishes. — If wishes would prevail with me, 
My purpose should not fail with me. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iii, 2 

Wishing. Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. 

Young, Night Thoughts, IV, line 72 

Wit. Although he had much wit, 

He was very shy of using it; 
As being loth to Wear it out, 
And therefore bore it not about, 
Unless on holy-days, or so, 
As men their best apparel do. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 45-50 

Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it 
should get blunted. 

Cervantes, The Little Gipsy (La Gitanilla) 



Wit 447 

His wit invites you by his looks to come, 
But when you knock it never is at home. l 

Cowper, Conversation, lines 303, 304 

The greatest sharp some day will find another sharper 

wit; 
It always makes the devil laugh to see a biter bit. 

C. G. Leland, El Cap item-General, st. 1 2 

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 2 

Pope, Dunciad, iv, line 90 

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, 

What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed ; 

Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, 

That gives us back the image of our mind. 

As shades more sweetly recommend the light, 

So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. 

For works may have more wit than does 'em good, 

As bodies perish through excess of blood. 

Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 297-304 

You have a nimble wit. 3 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 2 

None are so surely caught, when they are catched, 
As wit turned fool. 

Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2 

Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an 
instant? Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 5 

Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and 
by it will strike. Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii, 1 

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how 
quickly the wrong side may be turned outward. 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, iii, 1 

As full of wit as an egg is full of meat. 

Sterne, Tristram Shandy, VII, xxxvii 

] You beat you pate, and fancy wit will come : 
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Pope, Epigram 

2 This man [Lord Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits, but 
I find he is only a wit among lords. 

Samuel Johnson, Life, by Boswell, 1754 

3 1 have a pretty wit. Shakespeare, As You Like It, v, 1 

Your wit ambles well; it goes easily. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, v, 1 



448 Witchcrafts— Woes 

Witchcrafts. — And the Devil will fetch me now in fire, 
My witchcrafts to atone ; 
And I, who have troubled [rifled] the dead man's grave, 
Shall never have rest in my own. 

Southey, The Old Woman of Berkeley, st. 9 

Withered. What are these 

So withered and so wild in their attire, 

That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, 

And yet are on 't? Shakespeare, Macbeth, i, 3 

Wives. — Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iv, 2 

Woe. He scorned his own, who felt another's woe. 

Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming, I, st. 24 

Alas! by some degree of woe 

We every bliss must gain; 
The heart can ne'er a transport know 

That never feels a pain. Lord Lyttelton, 

Song: Say, Myra, Why is Gentle Love 

What though no friends in sable weeds appear, 
Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year, 
And bear about the mockery of woe 1 
To midnight dances and the public show? 

Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, lines 55-58 

Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, 
That costs thy life, my gallant grey. 

Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto i, st. 9 

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, 

So fast they follow. 2 Shakespeare, Hamlet, iv, 7 

Woes. — The graceful tear that streams for other's woes. 

Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination, I, line 6 

1 'T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother, 
Nor customary suits of solemn black, 

Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, 

No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, 

Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, 

Together with all forms, moods [modes], shapes [shows] of grief, 

That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, 

For they are actions that a man might play: 

But I have that within which passeth show; 

These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

2 Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; 

They love a train; they tread each other's heel. 

Young, Night Thoughts, III, lines 63, 64 



Wolf— Woman 449 

Wolf. — The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore. 

Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, i, st. 7 

You may as well use question with the wolf 
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iv, i 

Woman. — When Eve brought woe to all mankind 
Old Adam called her wo-man; 
But when she wooed with love so kind, 
He then pronounced her woo-man. 
But now, with folly and with pride, 
Their husbands' pockets trimming, 
The women are so full of whims 
That men pronounce them wimmen! 

Anonymous, Woman 

Oh, woman! woman! thou should'st have few sins 
Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author 
Of such a book of follies in a man, 
That it would need the tears of all the angels 
To blot the record out! 

E. G. Bulwer-Lytton, The Lady of Lyons, v, i 

Say — the world is a nettle ; disturb it, it stings : 
Grasp it firmly, it stings not. On one of two things, 
If you would not be stung, it behoves you to settle : 
Avoid it or crush it. . . . 

She tried 
With the weak hand of woman to thrust it aside, 
And it stung her. A woman is too slight a thing 
To trample the world without feeling its sting. 1 

E. R. Bulwer-Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), 

Lucile, iii, 2 

As father Adam first was fooled, 

A case that's still too common, 
Here lies a man a woman ruled — 

The devil ruled the woman. 

Burns, On a Hen-pecked Country Squire 

Extreme in love or hate, in good or ill, 

The worst of crimes had left her woman still! 

Byron, The Corsair, Canto iii, st. 16 

1 Nor wife nor maiden, weak or brave, 
Can stand and face the public stare, 
And win the plaudits she may crave, 
And stem the hisses she may dare, 
And modest truth and beauty save. — J. G. Holland, The Mistress 

of the Manse: Love's Philosophies, vii 



45° Woman 



Woman — Continued 

Woman! thy vows are traced in sand. 1 

Byron, To Woman 

Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, 
There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower! 

The world was sad! — the garden was a wild! 
And man, the hermit, sighed — till woman smiled! 

Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii, st. 4 

But what is woman? Only one of 
Nature's agreeable blunders. 

Hannah Cowley, Who's the Dupe? ii, 2 

She married, — well, — a woman needs 

A mate, her life and love to share, — 
And little cares sprang up like weeds 

And played around her elbow-chair. 

F. S. Cozzens, An Experience and a Moral 

O woman, God beloved in old Jerusalem! The best 
among us need deal lightly with thy faults, if only for 
the punishment thy nature will endure, in bearing heavy 
evidence against us, on the Day of Judgment. 

Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, II, iii 

First, then, a woman will, or won't, depend on 't; 
If she will do 't, she will; and there's an end on 't. 2 
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, 
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice. 

Aaron Hill, Epilogue to Zara 

1 Woman's faith, and woman's trust — 
Write the characters in dust; 
Stamp them on the running stream, 
Print them on the moon's pale beam, 
And each evanescent letter 

Shall be clearer, firmer, better, 
And more permanent, I ween, 
Than the thing those letters mean. Scott, The Truth of Woman, st. 1 

2 Where is the man who has the power and skill 
To stem the torrent of a woman's will? 

For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; 
And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't. 

Anonymous, Lines on a pillar in Dane John Field, Canter- 
bury, quoted in The Examiner (London), May 31, 1829 

Men, dying, make their wills, but wives 

Escape a work so sad; 
Why should they make what all their lives 

The gentle dames have had? J. G. Saxe, Woman's Will 

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill 
To turn the current of a woman's will. 

Sir S. Tuke, Adventures of Five Hours, v, 3 



Woman 45 ' 

I would have a woman as true as Death. At the first 
real lie which works from the heart outward, she should 
be tenderly chloroformed into a better world. 

Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, xi 
Hapless woman ne'er can say, 
" My work is done," till judgment day. 

St. John Honeywood, Darby and Joan, i 
It's oh! to be a slave 

Along with the barbarous Turk, 
Where woman has never a soul to save, 
If this is Christian work! 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt, st. 2 
Oh, the years we waste and the tears we waste 
And the work of our head and hand 
Belong to the woman who did not know . . . 
And did not understand. 

Kipling, The Vampire, st. 2 
Oh, the toil we lost and the spoil we lost 
And the excellent things we planned 
Belong to the woman who did n't know why 

And did not understand. Ibid., st. 4 

It is the fate of woman 
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that 

is speechless, 
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. 
Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women 
Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers 
Running through caverns of darkness, unheard, unseen, 

and unfruitful, 
Chafing their channels of stone, with endless and profit- 
less murmurs. 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, vi, 

lines 29-35 
Praise of the virtuous woman, as she is described in the 

Proverbs, 1 — 
How the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her 

always, 
How all the days of her life she will do him good, and 

not evil, 
How she seeketh the wool and the flax and worketh 

with gladness, 
How she layeth her hand to the spindle and holdeth the 

distaff, 
How she is not afraid of the snow for herself or her house- 
hold, 
Knowing her household are clothed with the scarlet 
cloth of her weaving! Ibid., viii, lines 34-40 



■ Proverbs 



xxxi, 10- 



452 Woman 

Woman — Continued 

A cunning woman is a knavish fool. 

Lord Lyttelton, Advice to a Lady 

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman ; 

It is so seldom heard, that, when it speaks, 

It ravishes all senses. Massinger, The Old Law, iv, 2 

Thus it shall befall 
Him who, to worth in woman overtrusting, 
Lets her will rule ; restraint she will not brook ; 
And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue, 
She first his weak indulgence will accuse 

Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, lines 1182-1186 

Here woman reigns, the mother, daughter, wife, 
Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; 
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, 
An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; 
Around her knees domestic duties meet, 
And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet. 

James Montgomery, The West Indies, iii, 1 

Who trusts himself to woman or to waves 
Should never hazard what he fears to lose. 

John Oldmixon, The Governor of Cyprus, iii 

I'd leave the world for him that hates a woman. 
Woman, the fountain of all human frailty! 
What mighty ills have not been done by woman! 
Who was 't betrayed the Capitol ? A woman. 
Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman. 
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, 
And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman, 
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! 1 

Thomas Otway, The Orphan, iii, 1 

O woman! lovely woman! 2 Nature made thee 
To temper man: we had been brutes without you ; 
Angels are painted fair, to look like you : 
There's in you all that we believe of Heaven, 
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, 
Eternal joy, and everlasting love. 

Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved, i, 1 

Here rests a woman, good without pretence, 
Blessed with plain reason and with sober sense : 
No conquests she, but o'er herself, desired, 
No arts essayed, but not to be admired. 

1 Oh, most pernicious woman! Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 5 

2 Woman, lovely woman! Cowper, Progress of Error, line 274 



Woman 453 

Passion and pride were to her soul unknown, 

Convinced that virtue only is our own. 

So unaffected, so composed a mind ; 

So firm, yet soft ; so strong, yet so refined ; 

Heaven, as its purest gold, by tortures tried ;* 

The saint sustained it, but the woman died. 

Pope, Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet 

Woman, the last ; the best reserved of God. 2 

Pope, January and May, line 64 

O woman! in our hours of ease, 

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 

And variable as the shade 

By the light quivering aspen made ; 

When pain and anguish wring the brow, 

A ministering angel thou! 3 Scott, Marmion, vi, 30 

Do you know I am a woman? when I think, I must 
speak. Shakespeare, As You Like It, hi, 2 

A woman's thought runs before her actions. — Ibid., iv, 1 

'T is said a woman's fitness comes by fits. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, iv, 1 

One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul! she's 
dead. Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed ; 
She is a woman, therefore to be won. 4 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, v, 3 

Oh, tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide! 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 4 

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths 
in a glass. 5 Shakespeare, King Lear, iii, 2 

1 Mrs. Corbet died of cancer. 
2 Cf. Heaven. 

3 Woman's at best a contradiction still. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, line 270 

Who is 't can read a woman? Shakespeare, Cymbeline, v, 5 

4 She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won; 
She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. 

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, ii, 1 
5 Angelo. Women are frail too. 
Isabella. Ay; as the glasses where they view themselves. 



Nay, call us ten times frail, 
For we are soft as our comnlexions are. 
And credulous to false prints. — Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, ii, 



454 Woman — Womanly 



Was ever woman in this humour wooed? 
Was ever woman in this humour won ? 

Shakespeare, King Richard III, i, 2 

She's a very tattling woman. 

Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 3 

Such duty as the subject owes the prince 
Even such a woman oweth to her husband ; 
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, 
And not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she but a foul contending rebel 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord? 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself: so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart: 
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn [won], 
Than women's are. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 4 

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, 1 

Nor ever yet was woman's life complete 

Till at her breast the child of him she loved 
Made life and love one name. 

E. C. Stedman, The Blameless Prince, st. 134 

Man for the field, and woman for the hearth ; 
Man for the sword, and for the needle she ; 
Man with the head, and woman with the heart ; 
Man to command, and woman to obey; 
All else confusion. 

Tennyson, The Princess, v, lines 437-441 

One half of woman's life is hope 
And one half resignation. 

M. A. Townsend, Her Horoscope 

A perfect woman, nobly planned, 
To warn, to comfort, and command ; 
And yet a spirit still, and bright 
With something of angelic light. 

Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight, st. 3 

Womanly. — Touch her not scornfully ; 
Think of her mournfully, 
Gently and humanly ; 
Not of the stains of her ; 
All that remains of her 
Now is pure womanly. — Hood, The Bridge of Sighs, st. 4 



Women 455 

Women. — Alas! the love of women! it is known 

To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; 

For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, 

And if 't is lost, life hath no more to bring 
To them but mockeries of the past alone, 

And their revenge is as the tiger's spring, 
Deadly, and quick, and crushing ; yet as real 
Torture is theirs — what they inflict they feel. 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto ii, st. 199 

Women are skeery, unless they have a home. 

W. Carleton, Betsey and I Are Out, st. 13 

If women could be fair, and yet not fond, 
Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, 
I would not marvel that they make men bond 
By service long to purchase their good will ; 
But when I see how frail those creatures are, 
I muse that men forget themselves so far. 

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, 

A Renunciation, st. 1 

No cause is tried at the litigious bar, 
But women plaintiffs or defendants are, 
They form the process, all the briefs they write ; 
The topics furnish, and the pleas indite. 

Dryden, Juvenal, Satire vi, lines 341-344 

O, weary fa' the women fo'k, 

For they winna let a body be! 

James Hogg, The Women Fo'k 

There are some very pretty . . . women who don't 
understand the law of the road with regard to hand- 
some faces. Nature and custom . . . agree in con- 
ceding to all males the right of at least two distinct looks 
at every comely female countenance, without any in- 
fraction of the rules of courtesy or the sentiment of 
respect. Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, viii 

I sometimes think women have a sixth sense, which 
tells them that others, whom they cannot see or hear, 
are in suffering. . . . We . . . draw our first breath 
in their arms, as we sigh away our last upon their 
faithful breasts! 

Holmes, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, xi 

Nothing so true as what you once let fall, 
"Most women have no characters at all." 
Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, 
And best distinguished by black, brown, or fair. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, lines 1-4 



456 Women— Woo 

If weak women went astray, 
Their stars were more in fault than they. 

Matthew Prior, Hans Carvel, lines n, 12 

Women are not 
In their best fortunes strong. 

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, iii, i2[io] 

The pleasing punishment that women bear. 

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, i, 1 

Women are shrews, both short and tall. 

Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part II, v, 3 

Women's weapons, water-drops. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, ii, 4 

I am ashamed that women are so simple 
To offer war where they should kneel for peace, 
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, 
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world, 
But that our soft conditions and our hearts 
Should well agree with our external parts? 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, v, 2 

Women, not clothes, were loved 

When this old flag was new. R. H. Stoddard, 

When This Old Flag Was New, st. 9 

Wonder. — And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, 
That one small head could carry all he knew. 

Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, st. 14 

Gloucester. Ten days' wonder at the least. 
Clarence. That 's a day longer than a wonder lasts. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, iii, 2 

Woo. — Time to dance is not to woo; 
Wooing light makes fickle troth. 

E. B. Browning, The Lady's Yes, st. 4 

If fond love thy heart can gain, 
I never broke a vow; 
Nae maiden lays her skaith to me, 

I never loved but you. 
For you alone I ride the ring, 

For you I wear the blue; 

For you alone I strive to sing, 

Oh, tell me how to woo. 

Graham of Gartmore, // Doughty Deeds My 

Lady Please, st. 3 



Woo — Woods 457 

What is the greatest bliss 

That the tongue o' man can name? 
.'T is to woo a bonnie lassie 

When the kye conies hame! 

James Hogg, When the Kye Comes Hame, st. i 

Men are April when they woo, December when they 
wed: maids are May 1 when they are maids, but the sky 
changes when they are wives. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv, i 

We cannot fight for love, as men may do ; 

We should be wooed, and were not made to woo. 2 

Shakespeare, Midsummer-Night' s Dream, ii, i 

Woodcock. — So strives the woodcock with the gin. 3 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, i, 4 

Woodland. — Now rings the woodland loud and long, 
The distance takes a lovelier hue, 
And drowned in yonder living blue 
The lark becomes a sightless song. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxv, st. 2 

Woodman. — Woodman, spare that tree!* 
Touch not a single bough! 
In youth it sheltered me, 
And I'll protect it now. 

G-. P. Morris, Woodman Spare That Tree, st. 1 

Woodpecker. — The woodpecker tapping the hollow beech- 
tree. T. Moore, Ballad Stanzas, st. 2 

Woods. — There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
There is society, where none intrudes, 
By the deep sea, and music in its roar. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 178 

Into the woods my Master went, 
Clean forespent, forespent. 
Into the woods my Master came, 
Forespent with love and shame. 

1 Women are angels, wooing. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, i, 2 

2 Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, 
That would be wooed, and not unsought be won. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII, lines 502, 503 

3 Now is the woodcock near the gin. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii, 5 

4 Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree. 

Campbell, The Beech-Tree's Petition, st. 1 



458 Woods — Words 

But the olives they were not blind to Him, 
The little grey leaves were kind to Him: 
The thorn-tree had a mind to Him 
When into the woods he came. 

Lanier, A Ballad of Trees and the Master, st. 1 

Fresh woods and pastures new. 

Milton, Lycidas, line 193 

Wooer. — - Last May a braw wooer cam' down the lang glen, 
And sair wi' his love he did deave [deafen] me; 
I said there was naething I hated like men, — 
The deuce gae wi'm to believe me! 

Burns, Last May a Braw Wooer, st. 1 

The wooer who can flatter most will bear away the belle. 

G. W. Thornbury, The Jester's Sermon 

Wooing. — Never wedding, ever wooing, 
Still a love-lorn heart pursuing, 
Read you not the wrong you're doing 

In my cheek's pale hue? 
All my life with sorrow strewing, 
Wed, or cease to woo. 

Campbell, The Maid's Remonstrance, st.i 

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth 
the winning. Longfellow, 

Courtship of Miles Standish, iii, line in 

Word. — A word and a blow. 1 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, iii, 1 

Word-catcher.— Each wight, who reads not, and but scans 
and spells, 
Each word-catcher, that lives on syllables, 
Ev'n such small critics some regard may claim, 
Preserved in Milton's or in Shakespeare's name. 
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms 
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 165-172 

Words. He could coin, or counterfeit 

New words, with little or no wit; 
Words so debased and hard, no stone 
Was hard enough to touch them on; 
And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em, 
The ignorant for current took 'em. 

Butler, Hudibras, I, i, lines 109-114 

1 All words came first, and after blows. 

Chari.es Lloyd, Speech of Courtney 



Words — Work . 459 

Words are women, deeds are men. 1 

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum 

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by 
them; but they are the money of fools. 

Hobbes, The Leviathan, I, 4 

Well-placed words of glozing courtesy, 
Baited with reasons not unplausible. 

Milton, Comus, lines 161, 162 

To those who know thee not no words can paint, 
And those who know thee, know all words are faint. 

Hannah More, Sensibility 

Words, words, words. 2 Shakespeare, Hamlet, ii, 2 

'T is a kind of good deed to say well : 
And yet words are no deeds. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, iii, 2 

You have bereft me of all words. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, iii, 2 

Words pay no debts. 

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 2 

Work. — Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no 
other blessedness. 3 

Carlyle, Past and Present: The Modern Worker, xi 

Now, by Saint Paul, the work goes bravely on! 

Colley Cibber, Richard III, iii, 1 

Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and 
prayer. 

Henry van Dyke, Toiling of Felix, Legend, st. 61 

*I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters 
of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. 

Samuel Johnson, Preface to His Dictionary 

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. 

Samuel Madden, Boulter's Monument * 

2 Words, words, mere words. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, v, 3 

3 This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; 
Of all who live, I am the one by whom 
This work can best be done in the right way. 

Henry van Dyke, Work, st. 1 



* These words have been supposed to be an interpolation by Dr. Johnson. 
See Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1756. 



460 • Work — Worker 

Work — work — work — 

Till the brain begins to swim; 

Work — work — work — 
Till the eyes are heavy and dim! 
Seam, and gusset, and band, — 

Band, and gusset, and seam, 
Till over the buttons I fall asleep, 

And sew them on in a dream ! 

Hood, The Song of the Shirt 

Do the work that 's nearest, 
Though it's dull at whiles, 
Helping, when we meet them, 
Lame dogs over stiles; 
See in every hedgerow 
Marks of angels' feet, 
Epics in each pebble 
Underneath our feet. 1 

Kingsley, The Invitation, lines 97-104 

The best way to live well is to work well. Good work 
is the daily test and safeguard of personal health. 
Joseph Mortimer-Granville, How to Make the 

Best of Life, i 

To delight in doing one's work in life, that is what 
helps one on, though the road is sometimes very stiff 
and tiring — uphill rather, it would seem, than down- 
hill, and yet downhill it is. 

Max Muller, Life, by His Wife, II, xxv 

No good work is ever lost ; many labourers must be 
content to sow ; others will come to reap the harvest. 
Max Muller, Letter to Mr. Nanjio, Dec. 27, 

1S83, Life, by His Wife, II, xxvi 

Work is life to me ; 2 and when I am no longer able to 
work, life will be a heavy burden. 

Max Muller, Letter to Miss Byrd McCall, Oct. 

22, 1888, Life, by His Wife, II, xxix 

I have never found the limit of my capacity for work. 

Napoleon Bonaparte, Life, by Sloane, III, 163 

Worker. That which the worker winneth shall then be 

his indeed, 
Nor shall half be reaped for nothing by him that sowed 
no seed. 3 — William Morris, The Day Is Coming, st. 8 

1 Cf. Adversity. 

2 Work done is the true happiness of life. Max Muller, Letter to 

B. M. Malabari, March 12, 1890, Life, by His Wife, II, xxx 
*Cf. Seed. 



Workers — World 461 

Workers. — On we march then, we the workers, and the 
rumour that ye hear 
Is the blended sound of battle and deliverance drawing 
near. 

William Morris, The March of the Workers, st. 4 

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping some- 
thing new; 

That which they have done but earnest of the things 
that they shall do. 

Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 117, 118 

Workman. — There the workman saw his labour taking form 
and bearing fruit, 
Like a tree with splendid branches rising from a humble 
root. 

Henry van Dyke, Toiling of Felix, Legend, st. 57 

Works. — Every one is the son of his own works. 

Cervantes, Don Quixote, I, iv 

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, V, line 153 

World. — The world's a bubble, and the life of man 

Less than a span. 1 Bacon, 2 The World, st. 1 

Let any man show the world that he feels 
Afraid of its bark, and 't will fly at his heels: 
Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: 
But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings : t a bone. 

E. R. Bulwer-Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), 

Lucile, II, vii 
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home. 

Emerson, Good-Bye, st. 1 

Into this world we come like ships, 
Launched from the docks, and stocks, and slips, 
For fortune fair or fatal. 

Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Birth 

There is another and a better world. 

A. F. F. von Kotzebue, The Stranger 

(trans. R. Thompson), i, 1 
Fer John R 
Robinson he 
Sez the world '11 go right, ef he hollers out Gee! 

Lowell, The Biglow Papers, I, iii, st. 9 

1 This life, which seems so fair, 
Is like a bubble. W. Drummond, Madrigal : This Life 

2 Ascribed also to Raleigh, Donne, and others. 



462 World 

World — Continued 

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above ; 
And, if we did our duty, it might be full of love. 

Gerald Massey, This World Is Full of Beauty 

The world was all before them, where to choose 
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. 
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, 
Through Eden took their solitary way. 

Milton, Paradise Lost, XII, lines 646-649 

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; 
Still by himself abused, or disabused; 
Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; 
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled : 
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle ii, lines 13-18 

See how the world its veterans rewards ! 
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards ; 
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, 
Young without lovers, old without a friend; 
A fop their passion, but their prize a sot ; 
Alive, ridiculous, and, dead, forgot. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle ii, lines 243-248 

I think, whatever mortals crave, 

With impotent endeavour, 
A wreath— a rank— a throne— a grave — 

The world goes round for ever ; 
I think that life is not too long, 

And therefore I determine 
That many people read a song, 

Who will not read a sermon. 

I think the world, though dark it be 

Has aye one rapturous pleasure, 
Concealed in life's monotony, 

For those who seek the treasure ; 
One planet in a starless night — 

One blossom on a brier — 
One friend not quite a hypocrite — 

One woman not a liar! 

Praed, Chant of the Brazen Head, st. 1, n 

Hereafter, in a better world than this, 

I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 2 



World — Worms 463 

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, 
Seem to me all the uses of this world! 

Shakespeare, Hamlet, i, 2 

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. 

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, i, 1 

The world is not thy friend nor the world's law ; 
The world affords no law to make thee rich. 

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, v, 1 

Let the world slide. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Induction, 1 

And o'er the hills, and far away 

Beyond their utmost purple rim, 
Beyond the night, across the day, 

Through all the world she followed him. 

Tennyson, The Day-Dream, The Departure, st. 4 

The world is too much with us ; late and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 
Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much With Us, 

lines 1, 2 

Worldly. — Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. 

Francis Quarles, Emblems, II, 2 

Worlds. — Yet not to earth's contracted span 
Thy goodness let me bound, 
Or think Thee lord alone of man, 
When thousand worlds are round. 

Pope, The Universal Prayer, st. 6 

Worm. — I would not enter on my list of friends 

(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, 
Yet wanting sensibility) the man 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 

Cowper, The Task: Winter Walk at Noon, 

lines 560-563 
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, 
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. 

Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III, ii, 2 

Worms. — The worms they crept in, and the worms they 
crept out, 
And sported his eyes and his temples about, 
While the spectre addressed Imogene. 

M. G. Lewis, Alonzo the Brave and the Fair 

Imogene, st. 12 



464 Wormwood — Worst 

Wormwood. — His [cup] had been quaffed too quickly, and 
he found 
The dregs were wormwood. 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, st. 9 

Worship. — He wales [chooses] a portion with judicious care ; 
And "Let us worship God! " he says, with solemn air. 

Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 12 

What sought they thus afar? 

Bright jewels of the mine? 
The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — 

They sought a faith's pure shrine! 

Ay, call it holy ground, 

The soil where first they trod ; 
They have left unstained what there they found, — 
Freedom to worship God. l 

Felicia Hemans, Landing of the Pilgrim 

Fathers, st. 9, 10 
One wishes worship freely given to God, 
Another wants to make it statute-labour. 

Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 1 1 

Worst. — When things are at the worst, they sometimes 
mend. 2 Byron, Don Juan, Canto vi, st. 1 

When the worst comes to the worst, no man is without 
a friend who is possessed of shaving-materials. 

Dickens, David Copperfield, I, xvii 

In the worst inn's worst room. 

Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle iii, line 299 

We are not the first 
Who, with best meaning, have incurred the worst. 

Shakespeare, King Lear, v, 3 

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended 

By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. 

Shakespeare, Othello, i, 3 

1 And now the aisles of the ancient church 

By equal feet are trod, 
And the bell that swings in its belfry rings 

Freedom to worship God! Whittier, In the Old South, st. 9 

2 Would Heaven this mourning year were past! 
One may have better luck at last; 

Matters at worst are sure to mend, 
The Devil's wife was but a fiend. 

Prior, Turtle and Sparrows, lines 414-417 
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward 
To what they were before. Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv, 3 



Worth— Writ 465 

Worth. — Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow ; 
The rest is all but leather or prunello. 

Pope, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 203, 204 

Wrath. Our hame, 

Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, 
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, 
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 

Burns, Tarn O'Shanter, st. 1 

Come not within the measure of my wrath. 

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4 

Wreck. All at once a sea broke over them, 

And they that saw it from the shore have said 
It struck the wreck and piecemeal scattered it, 
Just as a woman might the lump of salt 
That 'twixt her hands into the kneading-pan 
She breaks and crumbles on her rising bread. 

Jean Ingelow, Brothers and a Sermon 

Wrecked. — As men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be 
washed off the next tide. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, iv, 1 

Wrestled. — Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown 
More than your enemies. 

Shakespeare, As You Like It, i, 2 

Wretched. — The wretched have no friends 

Dryden, All for Love, iii, 1 

Lest, when our latest hope is fled, ye taste of our despair, 

And learn by proof, in some wild hour, how much the 

wretched dare. Macaulay, Virginia, st. 6 

Wrinkles. — Wrinkles (the d — d democrats) won't natter 

Byron. Don Juan, Canto x, st. 24 

Writ. — The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, 
Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit 

Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, 
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. 1 

Omar Khayyam, Rubdiydt (trans. Fitzgerald), st. 71 

1 What is writ, is writ, — 
Would it were worthier! 

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 185 

Whatever hath been written shall remain, 
Nor be erased nor written o'er again ; 
The unwritten only still belongs to thee : 
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be. 

Longfellow, Morituri Saliitamus, st. 18 



466 Write — Writing 

Write. — He cannot write who knows not to give o'er. 

Dryden, Art of Poetry, line 63 

Learn to write well, or not to write at all. 

Dryden, Essay upon Satire, line 281 

It may be glorious to write 
Thoughts that shall glad the two or three 
High souls, like those far stars that come in sight 
Once in a century ; 

But better far it is to speak 
One simple word, which now and then 
Shall waken their free nature in the weak 
And friendless sons of men ; 

To write some earnest verse or line, 
Which, seeking not the praise of art, 
Shall make a clearer faith and manhood shine 
In the untutored heart. 

Lowell, Incident in a Railroad Car, st. 19-21 

Why did I write? what sin to me unknown 

Dipped me in ink, my parents', or my own? 

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. 

I left no calling for this idle trade, 

No duty broke, no father disobeyed. 

Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, lines 125-130 

But those who cannot write, and those who can, 
All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man 

Pope, Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle i, 

lines 187, 188 
Thither write, my queen, 
And with mine eyes I '11 drink the words you send, 
Though ink be made of gall. 

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, i, 1 [2] 

I once did hold it, as our statists do, 

A baseness to write fair, and laboured much 

How to forget that learning ; but, sir, now 

It did me yeoman's service. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 2 

Devise, wit! write, pen! for I am for whole volumes 
in folio. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, i, 2 

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune ; but 
to write and read comes by nature. 

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 3 

Writing. — This comes of drinking asses' milk and writing. 

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, II, line 395 



Writing — Yankee 467 

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, 
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, lines 362, 363 ; 
Imitations of Horace, II, Epistle ii, lines 178, 179 
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 

Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, Essay on 

Poetry, lines 1, 2 
Wrong. — One wrong more to man, one more insult to God! 
R. Browning, The Lost Leader, line 24 
Time at last sets all things even — 
And if we do but watch the hour, 
There never yet was human power 
Which could evade, if unforgiven, 
The patient search and vigil long 
Of him who treasures up a wrong. 

Byron, Mazeppa, st. 10 
Wrongs. — On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, 
But write our benefits upon the wave. 

King, Art of Love, lines 971, 972 
How will you ever straighten up this shape ; 
Touch it again with immortality ; 
Give back the upward looking and the light ; 
Rebuild in it the music and the dream ; 
Make right the immemorial infamies, 
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? 

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe, st. 5 

Xerxes. — Xerxes must die, 

And so must I. New England Primer 

Yankee. — The Yankee boy, before he 's sent to school, 
Well knows the mysteries of that magic tool, 
The pocket knife. 

And in the education of the lad 

No little part that implement hath had. 

His pocket knife to the young whittler brings 

A growing knowledge of material things. 

Thus by his genius and his jack-knife driven, 
Erelong he '11 solve you any problem given ; 

Ay, when he undertakes it, 
He '11 make the thing and the machine that makes it. 

For, there's go in it, you may know 
That there's go in it, and he'll make it go 

John Pierpont, Whittling 



468 Yawp — Young 

Yawp. — I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the 
world. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 52 

Year. — The old year lies a-dying. 

Tennyson, Death of the Old Year, st. 1 

Yes. — " Yes," I answered you last night; 
"No," this morning, sir, I say :* 
Colours seen by candle-light 
Will not look the same by day. 

By your truth she shall be true, 

Ever true, as wives of yore ; 
And her "yes," once said to you, 

Shall be "yes" for evermore. 

E. B. Browning, The Lady's Yes, st. 1, 7 

Yesterday. — Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return! 

Shakespeare, King Richard II, in, 2 

Yesterdays. — Oh, for yesterdays to come! 

Young, Night Thoughts, II, line 312 

Yester-year. — Where are the snows of yester-year? 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Ballad of Dead Ladies 

Yew. — Old Yew, which graspest at the stones 
That name the underlying dead, 
Thy fibres net the dreamless head, 2 
Thy roots are wrapped about the bones. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, ii, st. 1 

Yorick. — Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a 
fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath 
borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how 
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. 
Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how 
oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your 
songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to 
set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your 
grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's 
chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to 
this favour she must come. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, v, 1 

Young. — Young fellows will be young fellows. 

Isaac Bickerstaff, Love in a Village, ii, 2 

1 Why, I pray, 
Look ' 'Yes " last night, and yet say ' 'No" to-day? 

Byron, Don Juan, Canto xii, st. 34 

2 The dreamless sleep that Mis the dead. Byron, Euthanasia, st. 1 



Young — Youth 469 

The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, 

The young birds are chirping in the nest, 
The young fawns are playing with the shadows, 

The young flowers are blowing toward the west — 
But the young, young children, O my brothers, 

They are weeping bitterly! 
They are weeping in the playtime of the others, 
In the country of the free. 

E. B. Browning, The Cry of the Children, st. i 

And both were young, and one was beautiful. 1 

Byron, The Dream, st. 2 

Young men think old men fools, and old men know 
young men to be so. 

Quoted by Camden as a saying of one Dr. Metcalf 

When all the world is young, lad, 

And all the trees are green ; 
And every goose a swan, lad, 

And every lass a queen ; 
Then hey for boot and horse, lad, 

And round the world away ; 
Young blood must have its course, lad, 

And every dog his day. 

Kingsley, Songs from the Water Babies, II, st. 1 



Young folks are smart, but all ain't good thet's new ; 
I guess the gran'thers they knowed sunthin' tu. 

Lowell, Biglow Papers, II, ii, lines 307, 308 



The atrocious crime of being a young man. 

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech, 

March 6, 1741 

Young people now-a-days 
Have fallen sadly off, I think, from all the good old ways. 
Bayard Taylor, The Quaker Widow, st. 15 

Younger. — We shall ne'er be younger. 

Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Induction, 2 

Yourself. — Why don't you speak for yourself, John? 

Longfellow, Courtship of Miles Standish, iii, line 154 

Youth. — A strappan youth ; he taks the mother's eye. 

Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night, st. 8 

1 Both young — and one how passing fair! Byron, Parisina, st. 9 



47° Youth — Zaccheus 

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, 
While proudly riding o'er the azure realm 

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; 

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm : 

Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 

That hushed in grim repose expects his evening prey. 

Gray, The Bard, ii, 2 

He doth not lack an almanac, 
Whose youth is in his soul. 

Holmes, Remember — Forget, st. 5 

In youth the heart exults and sings, 
The pulses leap, the feet have wings ; 
In age the cricket chirps, and brings 
The harvest home of day. 

Longfellow, Keramos, st. 17 

In the very May-morn of his youth, 
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. 

Shakespeare, King Henry V, i, 2 

Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength 

of youth ! 1 
Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living 

truth! Tennyson, Locksley Hall, lines 59, 60 

There are gains for all our losses, 

There are balms for all our pain, 
But when youth, the dream departs, 
It takes something from our hearts, 

And it never comes again. 

R. H. Stoddard, The Flight of Youth, st. 1 

God pity them both! and pity us all, 
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. 

Whittier, Maud Muller, st. 52 

Yule. — They bring me sorrow touched with joy, 
The merry, merry bells of Yule. 

Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxviii, st. 5 

Zaccheus. — Zaccheus he 
Did climb the tree 
Our Lord to see. New England Primer 

1 This filthy marriage-hindering Mammon. 

Tennyson, Aylmer's Field, line 374 



INDEX TO AUTHORS 



Adams, John Quincy (1769-1848), 

106, 172 
Adams, Samuel (1722-1803), 8 
Adams, Sarah Fuller Flower (1805- 

1848), 278 
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), 55, 85, 

93, 132, 191, 216, 284, 303, 388, 

392,' 424. 43° 
Aide, Charles Hamilton (1830- ), 
v 72, 33° 
A Kempis, Thomas. See Kempis, 

Thomas a, 
Akenside, Mark (1721-1770), 397, 

448 
Akerman, Lucy Evelina ( -1874), 

215 
Aldnch, James (1810-1856), 105 
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836- ), 

12, 295 
Alexander, Cecil Frances (1818-1895), 

73. 154. 184, 264, 382, 418, 433 
Allen, Elizabeth Akers (1832- ), 

340 
Allison, Richard (18th Century), 343 
Allston, Washington (1779-1843), 283 
Anderson, Alexander (1845- ), 16 
Andros, R. S. S. ( -1868), 391 

Angelo, Michael. See Buonarotti, 

Michael Angelo 
Anonymous, 14, 20, 23, 90, 106, 148, 
149, 170, 183, 219, 231, 232, 246, 
253, 261, 267, 283, 304, 320, 328, 
361, 367, 373. 411. 423, 436, 437, 
449, 45o 
Armstrong, John (1709-1779), 312 
Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832-1904), 55, 

74. 76, 231, 375 

Arnold, George (1834-1865), 117, 172, 

179. 313. 321; 360 
Arnold, Matthew (i822-i888),i57 

Askewe, Anne (152 1546), 140 

Austin, Alfred (1835- ), 103, 219, 

220 
Ayton, Sir Robert (1570-1638), 232 
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune (1813- 

1865), 76, 3Si 

Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam (1561- 
1626), 8, 14, 30, 40, 50, 77, 88, 92, 
J 53. 198, 206, 232, 248, 258, 266, 
305. 310, 317, 318, 326, 334, 415, 
421, 427, 430, 442, 461 



Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902), S, 

157, 191, 198, 220, 227, 232, 248, 

275, 309. 402 
Ball, John ( -1381), 149 
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1 743-1825), 

220 
Barere de Vieiizac, Bertrand (1755-' 

1841), 28 
Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845), 

22 
Barlow, George (1847- ), 96, 112 
Barnfield, Richard (1574-1627), 256 
Baron, Robert (17th Century), 271 
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1 785-1820), 

67 
Barrington, George (1755-c. 1840), 64 
Barton, Bernard (1784-1849), 302 
Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), 314 
Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839), 

1, 67, 265, 304, 319, 342, 343 
Beattie, James (1735-1803), 172, 346 
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) and 

Fletcher, John, 2, 41, 261, 270, 305, 

3°9, 3Si, 372 
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1805-1849), 

2^2 
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887), 

7°. 135 
Beers, Ethel Lynn (1827-1879), 311 
Benjamin, Park (1809— 1864), 357 
Bennett, Henry (1785-18 ), 348, 

372, 440 
Bennett, William Cox (1820-1890), 

338 
Berkeley, George (1685-1753), 109 

Berners, Juliana (c. 1388-14 ), 150 

Bethune, George Washington (1805- 

1862), 390 
Bickerstaff, Isaac (1735-1812), 86, 

185, 262, 468 
Blacker, Colonel William (1 777-1855), 

311 
Blair, Robert (1699-1746), 9, 162, 

282, 376, 440 
Blake, William (1757-1827), 405 
Blamire, Susanna (1 747-1 794), 364 
Bland, Robert (1779-1825), 182 
Boker, George Henry (1823-1890), 

190 
Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon 

Bonaparte 
Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889), 222 



472 



Index to Authors 



Boner, John Henry (1845-1903), 122, 

244. 374 
Booth, Barton (1681-1733), 88 
Bourdillon, Francis William (1852- 

), 281 
Bowles, Caroline Anne. See Sou- 

they, Caroline Anne Bowles 
Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins 

(1796-1828), 56 
Breton, Nicholas (1555-1624), 202 
Bridges, Madeline. See De Vere, 

Mary Ainge 
Brome, Alexander (1620-1666), 87 
Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord (1554- 

1628). 364 
Brooks, Maria Gowen (1 795-1845), 

232 
Brougham, Henry Peter, Lord (1778- 

1868), 33, 352 
Brown, Frances (1818-1864), 414 
Brown, Tom (1663-1704), 327, 360 
Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), 13 
Browne, William (1591-1643), 180 
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806- 

1861), 120, 153, 154, 206, 220, 290, 

413. 415, 437, 439. 456, 468, 469 
Browning, Robert (1812-1889), 3, 24, 

48, 71, 77, 78, 93, 130, 154. 155, 

159, 206, 221, 222, 229, 230, 232, 

233. 243, 256, 316, 318, 328, 336, 

337, 378, 380, 394. 415. 467 
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878), 

74, 75, 86, 180, 227. 257, 268. 288, 

322, 334, 362, 387, 400, 415 
Buchanan, Robert William (1841- 

1901), 129, 176, 194, 284 
Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of 

(1649-1720), 467 
Buckley, Theodore William Alois 

(1825-1856), 444 
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle 

(1803-1873), 119, 301, 332, 449 
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert(i83i- 

1891), 63, 140, 449, 461 
Bunyan, John (1628-1688), 97, 159, 

226. 317, 418 
Buonarotti, Michael Angelo (1474- 

1564), 247, 385 
Burke, Edmund (1729-1797), 26, 50, 

128, 138, 256, 265, 271, 280, 328, 

424 
Burleigh, George Shepard (1821- 

1903), 248 
Burns, Robert (1 759-1 796), 14, 18, 

19. 30, 37, 38, 44, 58, 77, 87, 103, 

105, 119, 120, 130, 142, 145, 165, 

172, 183, 184, 187, 188, 191, 192, 

201, 203, 209, 211, 230, 244, 248, 

249, 254, 257, 261, 263, 264, 270, 

271, 294, 305, 307, 310, 311, 317, 

324. 352, 355, 380, 402, 429, 440, 

449, 458, 464, 465, 469 
Burton, Robert (1577-1640), 232 

Butler, (16th Century), 292 

Butler, Samuel (1612-1680), 6, 20, 26, 

36, 46, 47, 48, 54, 57, 62, 67, 86, 87, 



88, 93, 95, 97, 130. 137, 151, 164, 
165, 168, 184, 193, 216, 218, 230, 
232, 241, 253, 261, 266, 269, 281, 
287, 290, 302, 306, 310, 322, 325, 
329, 335, 344, 345, 366, 390, 394, 
395, 4°5, 43°, 438, 441, 446, 458 

Butler, William Allen (1825-1902), 
389, 437 

Byrd, William (c. 1538-1623), 262 

Byrom, John (1692-1763), 183, 418, 
440 

Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord 
(1788-1824), 2, 3, 4, 9, 12, 14, 15, 
18, 19, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 
37, 40, 41, 5i, 55, 57, 60, 62, 63, 64, 
66, 67, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 79, 85, 92, 
94, 95, 97, 98, 106, 107, 109, no, 
112, 117, 123, 124, 125, 129, 131, 
135, 136, 142, 148, 150, 152, 154, 
159, 160, 166, 168, 171, 172, 176, 
177, 181, 189, 190, 192, 193, 203, 
204, 206, 207, 210, 212, 216, 218, 
219, 220, 223, 232, 233, 242, 245, 
253, 256, 262, 264, 265, 269, 270, 
271, 272, 274, 276, 277, 283, 285, 

286, 288, 296, 304, 306, 309, 316, 
323, 324, 328, 330, 333, 334, 344, 
345, 350, 351. 352, 359, 362, 363, 
365. 367, 369, 372, 373. 376, 385, 
386, 387, 389, 392, 395, 398, 405, 
406, 408, 410, 416, 419, 423, 424, 
426, 428, 429, 430, 434, 435, 436, 
438, 439. 44i. 444- 449, 450, 455> 
4S7, 464, 465. 467, 468, 469 

Cable, George Washington (1844- 

). 73 
Calidasa, 227 
Calverley, Charles Stuart (183 1- 

1884), 44, 139 . 

Cambronne, Pierre Jacques Etienne 

(1770-1842), 166 
Camden, William (1551-1623), 469 
Camoens, Luis de (1524-1579), 233 
Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), 9, 

13, 19, 31. 39. 60, 73, 93, 98, no, 

115, 142. 152, 203, 225, 233, 274, 

287, 288, 300, 342, 358, 364, 427, 
428, 448, 449, 450, 457, 458 

Canning, George (1770-1827), 16, 

145. 304. 3to, 367, 389 
Carew, Lady Elizabeth (ft. 1590), 

234. 335 
Carey, Henry (1692-1743), 6, 74, 

Carleton, Will M. (1845- ), 176, 

286, 292, 310, 400, 455 
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881). 416, 

459 
Carman, William Bliss (1861- ), 

361 
Carpenter, Henry Bernard (1840- 

1890), 284 
Carroll, Lewis. See Dodgson, 

Charles Lutwidge 
Cary, Alice (1820-1871), 82, 145 



Index to Authors 



473 



Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871), 55, 58, 72, 

220, 278 
Centlivre, Susannah (c. 1667-1723), 

364 
Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de (1547- 

1616), 249, 369, 446, 461 
Chalkiil, John (17th Century), 444 
Chapman, George (1557-1634), 28, 

242 
Chatham, Earl of. See Pitt. Wil- 
liam, Earl of Chatham 
Chaucer, Geoffrey {c. 1 340-1400), 53, 

150, 158, 271, 272, 279, 411, 412 
Cherry, Andrew (1762— 1812), 26 
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 

Earl of (1694-1773), 39i 
Choate, Rufus (1799-1859), 59, 149, 

420 
Chorley, Henry Fothergill (1808- 

1872), 286 
Churchill, Charles (1 731-1764), 6, 

33, 123, 390 
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757), 12, no, 

123, 171, 180, 351, 397, 459 
Clare, John (1793-1864), 207 
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835- 

). 133 
Cleveland, Mrs., 220 
Cleveland, Stephen Grover (1837- 

), 2S9, 297 
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861), 

224, 391 
Coffin. Robert Stevenson (1797- 

1827), 360 
Coignet, Marie Francois (1737-1821), 

373 
Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634), 44, 

64, 327 
Coleridge, Hartley (1 796-1849), 117 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), 

5, 7, 27, 29, 36, 37, 58, 63, 77, 81, 

84, 117, 128, 142, 154, 167, 172, 

190, 200, 221, 234, 235, 253, 270, 

288, 313, 314, 342, 346, 348, 353, 

358, 359, 366, 369, 371, 382, 387, 

412, 435, 445 
Collins, Mortimer (1827-1876), 311 
Collins, William (1 721-1759), 34, 

133, 272 
Colman, George, the Younger (1732- 

1836), 150, 265, 358 
Colton, Charles Caleb (c. 1780-1832), 

41 
Congreve, William (1670-1729), 84, 



Conwav, Katherine Eleanor (1853- 

), 67 
Cook, Eliza (1818-1889), 1, 4, 12, 47, 

no, 112, 113, 133, 143, 145, 173, 

181, 226, 258, 317, 363 
Coolidge, Susan. See Woolsey, 

Sarah Chauncey 
Corinthians, Second Book of, 380 
Corn-Law ' Rhymer, The. See 

Elliott. Ebenezer 



Cornwall, Barry. See Procter, 

Bryan Waller 
Cotton, Charles (1630-1687), 300 
Cotton, Nathaniel (1705- 1788), 182, 

428, 440 
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), 64, 

101, 120, 408 

Cowley, Hannah (1 743-1809), 450 
Cowper, William (1731-1800), 1, 3, 
4, 12, 22, 29, 32, 36, 38, 39, 52, 54, 
58, 62, 64, 66, 72, 86, 88, 92, 97, 

102, no, 116, 136, 138, 143, 144, 
148, 154, 155, 171, 175, 183, 190, 
201, 202, 217, 227, 229, 231, 254, 
262, 266, 270, 274, 279, 281, 283, 
284, 300, 319, 320, 333, 342, 345, 
35o, 353. 361, 368, 373, 374, 390, 
396, 397, 4°5, 4io, 412, 413, 423, 
430, 442, 447, 452, 463 

Cozzens, Frederick Swartwout (1818- 

1869), 450 
Crabbe, George (1754-1832), 31, 295, 

443 
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock (1826- 

1887), 35, 51, 80, 97, 108, 140, 184, 

207, 208, 217, 221, 352 
Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813— 

1892), 403 
Crashaw, Richard (c. 1613-1649), 

221, 265, 312, 358, 435 
Crawford, Julia, or Louisa Macartney 

(c. 1800-c. 1885), 116, 296 
Cross, Maria Evans Lewes. See 

Eliot. George 
Crowquill, Alfred. See Forrester, 

Alfred Henry 
Cunningham, Allan (1 784-1842), 286, 

359, 436 
Cutter, George Washington (1801- 

1865), 152, 386 

Dana, Richard Henry (1777-1879), 

88 
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619), 81, 369 
Dante, Alighieri (1265-1321), 185 
Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802), 386 
Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), 253, 

380 
Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814-1845), 

59 
Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820), 65 
Defoe, Daniel (1661-1731), 87 
Dekker, Thomas (c. 1570-c. 1641), 

32, 61, 297 
Democratic Party Slogan, 131 
Denham, Sir John (1615-1669), 84 
Dennis, John (1657-1734), 405 
De Vere, Aubrey Thomas (1814- 

1902), 394 
De Vere, Edward, Earl of Oxford 

(1550-1604), 455 
De Vere, Mary Ainge (1840- ), 

242 
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814), 48 
Dibdin, John Thomas (1771-1841), 



474 



Index to Authors 



Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), 28, 32, 
42, 45, 48, Si. 54. 56, 62, 75, 8s, 92, 
122, 131, 166, 171, 187, 191, 192, 
193. !95. 197. 198. 216, 225, 229, 
230, 234, 257, 271, 273, 285, 287, 
3°3. 309. 314. 315, 329, 352, 379, 
382, 413, 434, 443. 4S°, 464 

Dickinson, John (1732-1808), 420 

Dobell, Sidney Thompson (1824- 
1874), 254, 277 

Dobson, Henry Austin (1840- ), 
202 

Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751), 227 

Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes (1838- 
1905), 77. 369 

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832- 
1898), 198, 221, 414, 430 

Dodsley, Robert (1703-1764), 203 

Donne, John (1573-1681), 60 

Doudney, Sarah (1843- ). 88, 
434 

Dowling, Bartholomew (1823-1863), 
91 

Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles 
(1810-1888), 39, 420 

Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820), 
17, 147 

Drayton, Michael (1563-1631), 203, 
296 

Drummond, William, of Hawthorn- 
den (1585-1649), 461 

Dryden, John (1631-1700), 9, 13, 16, 
19, 20, 30, 34, 39, 45, 51, 59, 71, 
75, 77. 86, 89, 94, 98, 101, 102, 
105, 114, 121, 132, 140, 148, 155, 
158, 161, 162, 167, 168, 172, 177. 
186, 192, 193, 202, 205, 221, 234, 
245, 252, 256, 270, 272, 273, 277, 
289, 294, 298, 302, 304, 305, 309, 
311, 324, 330, 335, 345, 350, 353, 
355. 356, 363, 374. 376, 378, 385, 
396, 408, 416, 417. 421, 425, 43i. 
435. 440, 455. 465. 466 

DutTerin, Lady Helen Selina (1807- 
1867), 387 

Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella 
Busson (1834-1896), 237 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906) 
234 

Dunlop, John (1755-1820), 234 

Dwight, John Sullivan (1813-1893) 
333 

Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817), 58 
365 

Dyer, Sir Edward (c. 1540-1607). 
172, 262 

Dyer, John (1700-1758), 257 

Dyke, Henry van (1852- ), 98 
"155, 207, 221, 234, 324, 357, 390 
409, 432, 433, 459, 461 



Eastman, Charles Gamage (1816- 

1861), 105 
Ecclesiastes, Book of, 21, 136 
Eliot, George (1819-1880), 50 



Elizabeth, Queen of England (1533- 

1603), 55 
Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849), 119 

i73. 294, 301 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) 

24, 39, 86, 104, 143, 159, 199, 234 

253. 362, 368, 415, 461 
Emmet, Robert (1778-1803), 114 
English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902) 

29 
Erasmus, Desiderius (1467-1536) 

130 
Ettrick Shepherd, The. See Hogg 

James 
Everett, David (1769-18 13), 2 
Everett, Edward (1784-1865), in 

Faber, Frederick William (18 14-1863) 

33 7 
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria (1765- 

1834). 167 
Farquhar, George (167 8- 1707), 64 

279. 396 
Ferguson, Sir Samuel (1810-18S6) 

Field, Eugene (1850-1895), 62, 280 

346 
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754), 22 

102, 351, 363, 390, 408 
Finch, Francis Miles (1827- ) 

28, 212 
Finley, John (1797-1866), 16 
Fitzgerald, Edward (1809-1883) 

See Omar Khayydm 
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun (1655- 

1716), 16 
Fletcher, John (1579-1625), iot, 127 

257, 445. See also Beaumont 

Francis and Fletcher, John 
Ford, John (1S86-1639), 88 
Forrester, Alfred Henry (1804-1872) 

285 
Foster, Stephen Collins (1826-1864) 

200 
Fouche\ Joseph, Duke of Otranto 

(1754-1820), 28 
Francis I. of France (1494-1547), 231 
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), 117 

179. 183. 3°9. 332, 407, 408, 420 

424, 430, 440 
Free Soil Party Slogan, 142 
Freneau, Philip (1 752-1832), 200 
Fuller, Thomas (1608-1661), 31, 172 

254, 269 

Garrick, David (1717-1779), 201, 286 

392 
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879) 

262 
Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719). 89 
Gay, John (1685-1732), 47, 180, 185 

209, 215, 219, 270, 323, 347, 395 
.427 
Gibbon, Edward (173 7-1 794), 173, 

180 
Gibbons, Thomas (1720-1785), 26 



Index to Authors 



475 



Gifford, Richard (1725-1807), 425 
Gilbert, William Schwenck (1836- 

), 189 
Gilder, Richard Watson (1844- ), 

196 
Gilmore, James Roberts (1822-1903), 

Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-1774). 1. I2 , 
26, 68, 93, 95, 119, 130, 136, 141, 
14S. 159. 166, 168, 182, 185, 197, 
202, 206, 211, 212, 214, 234, 249, 
256, 261, 274, 282, 290, 294, 295, 
300, 302, 303, 305, 316, 323, 332, 
336, 349, 352, 355, 360, 441, 456 

Graham, James, Marquis of Montrose 
(1612-1650), 124, 126, 234 

Graham, Robert, of Gartmore ( - 
c. T797), 456 

Gray, Barry. See Coffin, Robert 

Stevenson 

Gray, David (1838-1861), 274 

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771), 10, n, 
35, 44, 66, 68, 69, 108, 109, 122, 
139, 141. 149, 158, 163, 168, 175, 
190, 209, 257, 260, 269, 292, 293, 
298, 301, 310, 368, 392, 401, 406 
421, 443, 470 

Green, Sarah Pratt McLean (1858- 
), 358, 359 

Greene, Albert Gordon (1802-1868), 
445 

Greene, Robert (c. 1560-1582), 262 

Guthrie, Thomas (1803-1873), 398 

Habakkuk, Book of, 345 

Hare, Julius Charles (1795-1855), 51 

Harrington, Sir John(is6i-i6i2), 141, 

414 
Harte, Francis Bret (1839-1902), 5, 

31, 50, 141, 162, 171, 280, 304, 340, 

346, 350, 371, 384, 429 
Harvey, Stephen (17th Century), 351 
Hawker, Robert Stephen (1803- 

1875), 63, 155, 374 
Hay, John (1839-1905), 49, 77, 83 

104, 135, 186, 277, 301, 313, 319 

329. 330, 346, 366, 404. 408 
Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1831-1886) 

315 
Heber, Reginald (1783-1826), 77 

163, 2x6 
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793- 

T 835). 17. 113. 121. J 49. 176, 209 

342, 354. 367, 464 
Henlev, William Ernest (1849-1903) 

28, 126, 376 
Henry, Patrick (1736-1799), 217, 

414 
Herbert, George (1593-1633), 3, 41 

73. 102, 140, 158, 193, 209, 218, 

365, 429, 459 
Herrick, Robert 1591-1674), 14, 100 

101, 129, 234, 254, 343, 364 
Heywood, John (c. 1497-c. 1577), 360 
Heywood, Thomas (c. 1597-c. 1650), 

183, 383 



H. H. See Jackson, Helen Hunt 

Fiske 
Higginson, Francis (1588-1630), 281 
Hill, Aaron (1685-1750), 280, 450 
Hobart, Mrs. Charles, 56 
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679), 459 
Hogg, James (1770-1835), 455, 457 
Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1819-1881), 

IS. 9i. 175, 208, 259, 417, 449 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), 
2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 21, 28, 31, 33, 
40, 46, 55, 62, 64, 68, 74, 82, 85, 91, 
94, 99, 102, 107, 114, 117, 124, 128, 
129, 133, 153. 154. 155, 171, 175. 

176, 181, 186, 187, 188, 194, 197, 
198, 200, 201, 203, 208, 210, 212, 
214, 216, 218, 230, 235, 237, 243, 
249, 252, 254, 255, 264, 266, 269, 
275, 279, 280, 294, 297, 298, 300, 
303. 307, 309. 310, 312, 313. 3i5, 
320, 321, 323, 325, 336, 342, 344, 
345. 350. 356, 363, 364. 372, 376, 
384, 387, 396, 397, 403, 415, 416, 
419, 420, 423, 425, 429, 433, 437, 
439, 441. 443. 445, 451, 455, 470 

Home, John (1722-1808), 97, 427 
Honeywood, St. John (1765-1798), 

45i 
Hood, Thomas (1 799-1845), 2, 4, 13, 
15, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 36, 38, 
44, 45, 49, 52, 53, 61, 66, 67, 68, 
69, 77, 78, 81, 86, 92, 96, 99, i°3, 
105, 106, 114, 115, 116, 120, 138, 
151, 157, 165, 167, 169, 173, 176, 

177, 182, 184, 188, 196, 200, 203, 
204, 207, 210, 216, 226, 235, 244, 
247, 252, 257, 260, 263, 265, 266, 
270, 272, 276, 279, 282, 285, 290, 
295, 30S, 312, 316, 329, 330, 338, 
339. 34i. 343. 345, 347. 351, 360, 
361, 362, 363, 367, 369, 37o, 372, 
382, 383, 390, 393, 413, 420, 430, 
438, 451, 454, 460, 461, 464 

Hooker, Richard (c. 1553-1600), 212 
Hoole, John (1727-1803), 265 
Hooper, Ellen Sturgis (1816-1841), 

104 
Hopkinson, Joseph (1770-1842), 58 
Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758- 

1805), 104, 360, 439 
Houghton, Lord (1809-188 s), 173 
Hovel, Edward, Lord Thurlow (1781- 

1829), 277 
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 

(c. 1517-1547), 442 
Howarth, Ellen Clementina (1827- 

1899), 135 
Howe, Julia Ward (1819- ), 153, 

225, 415 
Hughes, Thomas (1823-1896), 131 
Hunt, Sir Aubrey de Vere (1780- 

1846), 436 
Hunt, Helen Fiske. See Jackson, 

Helen Hunt Fiske 
Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784- 

1859), 204 



476 



Index to Authors 



Hurdis, James (1763-1801), 210 
Huxley, Henrietta Anne, 369 

Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897), 19, 35, 
96, 97, i47> 166, 178, 244, 250, 355, 
403, 465 

Ingersoll, Robert Green (1833-1899), 

Ingoldsby, Thomas. See Barham, 

Richard Harris 
Irving, Washington (1783-1859), 96 
Isaiah, Book of, 443 

Jackson, Andrew (1 767-1845), 420 
Jackson, Helen Hunt Fiske (1831- 

1885), 78, 109 
Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stone- 
wall), (1824-1863), 333 
James, Book of, 412 
Jefferson, Thomas (1 743-1826), 6, 

161, 217, 289, 299, 307, 356, 414 
Jenner, Edward (1749-1823), 324 
Job, Book of, 334 
Joel, Book of, 98 
John, Gospel of, 154 
Johnson, Edward, 435 
Johnson, Samuel (1 709-1784), 34, 

126, 135, 171, 192, 193, 195, 206, 

221, 266, 274, 298, 307, 312, 352, 

359. 424. 425. 447, 459 
Jones, Sir William (1746-1794), 227, 

385 
Jonson, Ben (1574-1637), 4, 99, 100, 

211, 266, 355, 364, 368, 378, 394, 

414, 427 
Judson, Anne Hasseltine. See 

Willson, Arabella M. 
Junius, 173 

Kalidasa. See Calidasa 

Keats, John (1795-1821), 20, 185, 
191, 219, 235, 274, 356, 369 

Keble, John (1792-1866), 355 

Kemble, John Philip (1757-1823), 93 

Kempis, Thomas a (e. 1380-147 1), 
116, 155. 287, 364 

Kennedy, Crammond (1842- ), 
37o 

Kenyon, James Benjamin (1858- 
), 126 

Keppel, Lady Caroline (c. I735 - ? ), 
340 

Key, Francis Scott (1780-1843), 17, 
276, 415 

Khayyam, Omar. See Omar Khay- 
yam 

King, William (1663-1712), 279, 439, 
467 

Kingsley, Charles (18 19-1875), 56, 96, 
108, 113, 132, 136, 144, 148, 175, 
203, 208, 221, 235, 247, 252, 254, 
290, 323, 374, 409, 419. 442, 460 

Kinney, Coates (1826-1904), 325 

Kipling, Joseph Rudyard (1865- ), 
1, 13. 53> 54, 59. 60, 74, 75, 107, III, 
112, 113, 115, 136, 139, 147, 164, 



169, 180, 187, 212, 215, 217, 242, 
251, 252, 253, 259, 276, 280, 284, 
287, 289, 301, 312, 339, 349, 365, 
367, 373, 391, 392, 395. 410, 420, 
432, 451. 469 

Kirke, Edmund. See Gilmore, James 
Roberts 

Knox, William (c. 1788-1825), 269 

Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813), 
151 

Kotzebue, August Frederich Ferdinand 
(1761-1819), 461 

Lamb, Charles (1775-1834), 158, 175, 

210, 307 
Lampman, Archibald (1861-1899), 

344 
Landor. Walter Savage (1775-1864), 

78, 221 
Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881), 18, 49, 

78, 156, 194, 225, 273, 321, 371, 374, 
376, 413, 457, 458 

Lanigan, George Thomas (1845-1886), 

261 
Lawrence, James (1781-1813), 359 
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole 

(1838-1903), 42 
Lee, Henry (1756-1818), 132 
Lee, Nathaniel (1653-1692), 165 
Leigh, Henry Sambrooke (183 7-1883), 

68, 265, 320, 418 
Leland, Charles Goffrey (1824-1903), 

297, 351, 447 
Le Sage, Alain Rene' (1668-1747), 397 
L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704), 

306, 318 
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), 6, 40, 

58, 108, 109, 199, 276, 292, 302, 319, 

332, 337, 361, 372, 394. 431. 437 
Lindsay, Lady Anne (1 750-1825), 68 
Lloyd, Charles (1775-1839), 458 
Locker, Frederick (1821-1895), 383 
Lodge, Thomas (c. 1558-1625), 118 
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807- 

1882), 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, 24, 27, 28 

32, 33, 44. 48, 50, 55, 66, 69, 75, 76 

79, 84, 87, 94, 96, 108, 109, 130 
138, 139, 146, 147, 156, 157, 163, 

I70, 173, 177, 179, 191, 200, 201, 
221, 222, 228, 235, 246, 255, 262 
276, 280, 282, 283, 292, 308, 313 

314, 331, 333, 334, 339, 351, 359 
360, 365, 373, 374, 375, 391, 410 
432, 433, 443, 451, 458, 465, 469 
470 

Lord, William Wilberforce (18 19- 
). 164 

Lovelace, Richard (1618-1658), 133 
184, 318, 445 

Lovell, Maria Anne (1803-1877), 224 

Lover, Samuel (1797-1868), 9, 99 
286, 348, 441 

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891), 7 
8, 10, 19, 24, 27, 31, 34, 39, 40, 42 
46, 50, 60, 62, 67, 77. 83, 95, 102 
in, 114, 115, 131, 143, 146, 152 



Index to Authors 



477 



156, 161, 171, 176, 177, 179, 181, 
188, 191, 193, 199, 206, 208, 212, 

213, 226, 245, 249, 250, 256, 259, 

272, 277, 280, 281, 283, 288, 290, 

299, 300, 306, 308, 314, 315, 319, 

320, 323, 338, 344, 347, 356, 363. 

368, 380, 386, 394, 411, 415, 416, 

417, 423, 424, 431, 444, 461, 466, 

469 

Ludlow, Fitz Hugh (1836-1870), 211 

Luke, Gospel of, 42, 140, 193, 320 

Luther, Martin (1483-1546), 140, 383, 

441 
Lydgate, John (c. 1370-c 1451), 158 
Lyly, John (c. 1554-1606), 210 
Lyttelton, George, Lord (1709- ), 

185, 235, 448, 452 

Lytton, Earl of. See Bulwer-Lytton, 
Edward George ; Bulwer-Lytton, Ed- 
ward Robert 

Macaulay, Thomas Babbington (1800- 

1859). 17. 19. 37. 89, in, 131, 179, 

184, 308, 321, 341, 419, 465 
MacCarthy, Denis Florence (1817- 

1882), 410 
Macdonald, George (1824- ), 16, 

124, 203 
Mace, Frances Parker Laughton (1836- 

1899), 429 
Mackay, Charles (18 14-1889), 48, 61, 

109, no, 143, 154, 159, 169, 175, 

225, 235, 248, 249, 283 
Macklin, Charles (1697-1797), 212, 

418 
Madden, Samuel (1686-1785), 459 
Maginn, William (1 793-1842), 194 
Mallett, David (c. 1 705-1 765), n, 431, 
Manners, Lord John (1818- ), 284 
Maria del Occidente. See Brooks, 

Maria Gowen 
Mark, Gospel of, 42 
Markham, Edwin (1852- ), 38, 79, 

147, 165, 180, 188, 195, 207, 388, 

402, 406, 467 
Mark Twain. See Clemens, Samuel 

Langhorne 
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593), 

205, 235, 242 
Marsden, William (1754-1836), 406 
Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678), 186, 

286, 299 
Mason, William (1724-1797), 181 
Massey, Geraid (1828- ), 38, 105, 

186, 235, 255, 267, 417, 462 
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640), 3, 79, 

422, 452 
Matthew, Gospel of, 42, 49, 184, 320 
Meredith, Owen. See Bulwer-Lytton, 

Edward Robert 
Merivale, John Herman (1779-1884), 

428 
Messinger, Robert Hinckley (1811- 

1874), 30, 440 
Michael Angelo. See Buonarotti, 

Michael Angelo 



Mickle, William Julius (1735-1788), 
138, 244 

Middleton, Thomas (c. 1570-1627), 
158 

Miller, William (1810-1872), 443 

Milnes, Richard Monckton. See 
Houghton, Lord 

Milton, John (1608-1674), 6, 7, 15, 18, 
19. 29. 3°, 40, 41. 46, 47, 49, 56, 63, 
66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 84, 85, 90, 93, 94, 
98, 106, 107, 108, 114, 116, 118, 121, 
122, 123, 129, 134, 139, 147, 161, 
165, 169, 170, 172, 177, 178, 186, 
187, 188, 196, 199, 200, 213, 216, 
217, 225, 228, 231, 256, 258, 263, 
264, 268, 270, 277, 279, 281, 282, 
291, 294, 295, 299, 303, 307, 312, 
319, 329, 332, 335, 336, 343, 344, 
357, 37o, 371, 373, 381, 382, 387, 
39i, 394, 398, 408, 409, 414, 415, 
417, 421, 429, 43°, 431, 432, 436, 
437, 446, 452, 457, 458, 459, 461, 
462 

Minor, Charles (1 780-1865), 15 

Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829- ), 79 

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689- 
1762), 350, 427 

Montgomery, James (1771-1854), 61, 
65, 123, 154, 157, 159, 182, 198, 217, 
228, 236, 245, 249, 264, 267, 277, 
278, 300, 313, 333, 341, 353, 354, 
368, 376, 391, 452 

Montgomery, Robert (1807-1856), 
267 

Montrose, Marquis of. See Graham, 
James 

Moore, Clement Clarke (1779-1863), 
24, 5i 

Moore, Thomas (1779-1852), 9, 17, 20, 
23, 31, 47, 64, 74, 85, 100, 101, 106, 
116, 118, 125, 143, 148, 149, 153, 
158, 170, 173, 203, 204, 211, 222, 
231, 236, 243, 257, 258, 274, 280, 
286, 305, 327, 331, 339, 342, 344, 
356, 360, 375, 393, 402, 405, 444, 
445, 457 

More, Hannah (1 745-1833), 24, 28, 
167, 285, 459 

More, Henry (1614-1687), 427 

Morris, Charles (1 745-1838), 32 

Morris, George Pope (1802-1864), 398, 
420, 457 

Morris, William (1834-1896), 74, 207, 
460, 461 

Mortimer-Granville, Joseph, 460 

Morton, Thomas (c. 1764-1838), n, 
166 

Moss, Thomas ( -1808), 375 

Motherwell, William (1797-1835), 222 

Muhlenberg, William Augustus (1796- 
1877), 228 

Miiller, Frederick Max (1823-1900), 
79, 90, 96, 460 

Mulock, Dinah Maria. See Craik, 
Dinah Maria Mulock 



478 



Index to Authors 



Nairne, Lady Carolina (1766-1845), 

210, 215, 329 
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1812), 34, 

37, 171, 230, 247, 259, 322. 361, 431. 

460 
Nash, Thomas (1567-1601), 382 
Nelson, Horatio. See Horatio, Vis- 
count Nelson 
New England Primer, 2, 305, 370, 467, 

470 
Newman, John Henry (1801-1890), 

214 
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727), 417 
Nichols, Rebecca S. (1820- ), 446 
Noel, Thomas (1 799-1861), 298 
Norris, John (1657-1711), 9 
Norton, Lady Caroline Elizabeth 

Sarah Sheridan (1808-1877), 146 

O'Hara, Theodore (1820-1867), 26 
Oldham, John (1653-1683), 195 
Oldmixon, John (1673-1742), 452 
Omar Khayyam (12th Century), 39, 

44, 69, 72, 77, 82, 85, 100, 103, 107, 

135, 152, 162, 178, 207, 311, 333, 

334, 365, 368, 401, 406, 411, 423, 

426, 435, 465 
Orange, Prince of. See William, 

Prince of Orange 
O'Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890), 283 
Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850), 

208 
Osgood, Kate Putnam (1841- ), 

174 
Otranto, Duke of. See Fouchi, 

Joseph 
Otway, Thomas (1652-1685), 83, 443, 

452 
Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613), 

443 

Paine, Thomas (1737-1809), 340, 378, 
39i 

Palmer, John Williamson(i825- ), 

365, 388 
Parker, Martyn ( —c. 1656), 355 

Parsons, Thomas William (1819- 

1892), 38 
Paulding, James Kirke( 1 779- 1860), 246 
Payne, John Howard (1791-1852), 182 
Peale, Rembrant (1778-1860), 393 
Percy, Florence. See Allen, Elizabeth 

Akers 
Percy, Thomas (1729-1811), 145, 426 
Perry, Nora (1832-1896), 30 
Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819), no 
Peter, Second Book of, 378 
Pettee, G. W., 23 
Philips, John (1676-1709), 359 
Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884), 247 
Philostratus (2nd Century), 100 
Pierpont, John (1 785-1866), 144, 467 
Pike, Albert (1809-1891), 94 
Pindar, Peter. See Wolcoit, John 
Pinkney, Edward Coate (1802-1828), 

176 



Piozzi, Hester Lynch Thrale. See 

Thrale, Hester Lynch 
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham (1708- 

1778), 8, 44, 60, 259, 279 
Pitt, William, of Malta ( -1840), 

188, 285, 347, 388, 419. 469 
Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849), 5, 17, 

19, 23, 229, 236, 246, 261, 280, 325, 

408, 410, 437 
Pollok, Robert {c. 1798-1827), 2, 28, 

288 
Pomfret, John (1667-1702), 177 
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), 6, 14, 

27, 30, 35, 36, 38, 41. 46, 49, 53. 57. 

59. 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 75, 79, 84, 

87, 91, 92, 94, 95, 100, 105, 107, 

108, 113, 115, 117, 120, 123, 124, 
126, 127, 128, 136, 137. 138, 139. 
140, 141, 158, 161, 162, 163, 167, 
168, 170, 174, 176, 178, 183, 184, 
186, 189, 192, 195, 197, 200, 205, 
206, 215, 216, 217, 218, 227, 228, 
231. 233, 236, 237, 245, 248, 250, 
252, 255, 259, 260, 265, 266, 269, 
271, 278, 281, 282, 284, 289, 291, 
292, 295, 297, 301, 306, 309, 316, 
325, 327. 330, 332, 334. 336, 337. 
338, 350. 353. 355. 356. 357, 362, 
364. 367, 380, 384, 385, 397, 400, 
410, 414, 424, 425, 427, 428, 430, 
434. 445, 446, 447. 448, 452, 453, 
455. 458, 462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 
467 

Porteous, Beilby (1731-1808), 272, 

43i 
Powell, Sir John (1633-1696), 327 
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802- 

1839), 10, 63, 89, 104, 119, 125, 129, 

146, 148, 174, 230, 237, 259, 269, 

274, 293, 296, 308, 328, 331, 383, 

384, 395, 409, 462 
Prentice, George Denison ( 1802-1870), 

406 
Priest, Nancy Amelia Woodbury 

(1837-1870), 339 
Prior, Sir James (c. 1790-1889), 298 
Prior, Matthew (1664-1721), 1, 87, 

109, 131, 190, 201, 317, 423, 456, 
464 

Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-1864), 

51, 127, 158, 198, 291, 293, 374, 377, 

409 
Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874). 

219. 354 
Proverbial Expressions, 87, 102, 120, 

178 
Proverbs, Book of, 199, 336, 451 
Psalms, Book of, 35 

Quarles, Francis (1592-1644), 463 
Quin, James (1693-1766), 426 

Rabelais, Francis (1483-1553), «. 87, 

100, 151, 279, 302, 439 
Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554-1618), 55, 

237, 364, 406 



Index to Authors 



479 



Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758), 229 
Randall, James Ryder (1839- ), 

255 
Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635), 386, 

387 
Ray, James (18th Century), 130 
Republican Party Slogan, 142 
Rice, Edward H., 340 
Riley, James Whitcomb (1853- ), 

153. 3°9, 324. 370 
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of 

(1647-1680), 202, 266 
Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855), 158, 191, 

443 
Roland, Manon Jeanne Philpon (1754- 

1793). 217 
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858- ), 54, 

96, 117, 170, 222, 310, 338, 383, 389, 

39o 
Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, Earl 

of (<7. 1633-1685), 83, 271, 379 
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830- 

1894), 411 
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), 

468 
Rowe, Nicholas (1673-1718), 231, 265 
Royden, Matthew (1580-1622), 117 
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), 302, 422 
Russell, Lord John (1792-1878), 320 
Russell, Irwin (1853-1879), 281 
Ryan, Abram Joseph (1839-1886), 

390, 398, 406 

Sargent, Epes (1813-1880), 288, 354 

Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-1887), 255, 
316, 320, 450 

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), 3. 4, 6, 
15, 16, 26, 39, 46, 47, 49, 58, 65, 79, 
82, 83, 85, 97, 119, 129, 136, 138, 
144, 214, 226, 229, 237, 267, 270, 
272, 279, 299, 304, 306, 317, 326, 
328, 342, 344, 358, 366, 371, 372, 
373, 386, 390, 395, 396, 398, 401, 
402, 403, 406, 423, 431, 433, 436, 
448, 450, 453 

Selden, John (1584-1654), 137, 146, 
389, 395 

Seward, William Henry (1801-1872), 
60, 213 

Sewell, George ( -1726), 66 

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616^, 1, 



2, 3, 4, 5. 


6, 7, 8, 9, 


10, 11, 12 


13, 


14, 15, 16, 


17, 18, 19, 


20, 21, 22 


23, 


24, 25, 27, 


28, 29, 30, 


31, 32, 33 


34, 


35, 36, 37, 


38, 39, 40, 


41, 42, 43 


44, 


45, 46, 47 


48, 49, 50 


51, 53, 54 


55, 


56, 57, 58 


59, 60, 61 


62, 63, 64 


65, 


66, 67, 68 


69, 7o, 71, 


72, 73, 74 


75, 


79, 80, 82 


83, 84, 85 


86, 87, 88 


89, 


90, 91, 93 


94, 95, 96, 


97,98, 99, 


100, 


101, 102, 


103, 104, 


105, 106, 


107, 


108, 109, 


IIO, III, 


112, 113, 


114 


116, 117, 


118, 119, 


120, 121, 


122 


124, 125, 


126, 127, 


128, 129, 


130 


131. 132, 


133, 134, 


135, 136, 


137 


138, 139, 


140, 141, 


142, 144, 


145 



146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 

156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 

163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 

170, 171, 172, 174, 177, 178, 179, 

180, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 

189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 

196, 197, 198, 199, 201, 202, 204, 

205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 

213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 

222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 

229, 230, 231, 237, 238, 239, 240, 

242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 250, 

251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 

258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 

266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 

273, 275, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 

282, 283, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 

290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 
297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 
304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 
311, 312, 313, 315, 316, 318, 319, 
320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 
327, 328, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 
335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 34°, 34*. 
342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 349, 
3Si, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 
358, 359, 361, 362, 363, 365, 366, 
307, 368, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 
375, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 
383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 
39°, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 
397, 398, 399, 400, 4°i, 402, 404, 
405, 406, 407, 409, 410, 411, 412, 
413, 414, 415, 417, 418, 419, 420, 
421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 
428, 429, 430, 432, 433, 434, 435, 
436, 437, 438, 439, 44°, 441, 442, 
443, 444, 44s, 446, 447, 448, 449, 
452, 453, 454, 456, 457, 458, 459, 
462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 468, 469, 
470 

Shanly, Charles Dawson (1811-1875), 

432 
Sheale, Richard (16th Century), 419 
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), 27, 

81, 175, 204, 205, 209, 219, 268, 

279, 297, 355, 366 
Shenstone, William (1714-1763), 192 
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751- 

1816), 6, 61, 114, 122, 191, 210, 246, 

291, 293, 323, 351, 423 
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820- 

1891), 432 
Shirley, James (1596-1666), 81, 103, 

127, 199 
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586), 168, 

235, 251, 403, 
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley (1791- 

1865), 34, 73, 151, 3°4, 332, 378, 

436 
Skipsey, Joseph, 342 
Smith, Adam (1723-1790), 361 
Smith, Horace (1779-1849), 10, 115, 

Smith, Samuel Francis (1808-1895), 
65 



480 



Index to Authors 



Smith, Sydney (1771-1841), 296, 297, 

347 
Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824- ), 

3°5 
Solomon, King of Israel ( - 

937 b. a), 343 
Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746), 305 
Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles (1786- 

1854), 43S 
Southey, Robert (1774-1843), 11, 57, 

63, 69, 87, 92, 130, 183, 268, 288, 

304, 316, 326, 348, 361, 388, 425, 

432. 448 
Spencer, William Robert (1 769-1834), 

406 
Spenser, Edmund (c. 1552-1599), 29, 

47, 62, 119, 150, 158, 166, 206, 335, 

377, 408 
Sprague, Charles (1791-1875), 278 
Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833- 
), 22, 33, 38, 206, 211, 240, 253, 

401, 424, 454 
Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729), 108 
Sterne, Laurence (17 13-1768), 62, 82, 

142, 156, 180, 189, 209, 278, 287, 

298, 315. 395 
Stevens, George Alexander (1710- 

1784). 346 
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894), 

163, 175, 182, 221 
Still, John (c. 1543-1608), 6 
Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825- 

1903), 171, 229, 365, 445, 456, 470 
Story, Robert (i79<;-i86o), 440 
Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895), 

61, 120, 392 
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896), 

166, 441 
Stowell, William Scott, Lord (1745- 

1836), 92 
Suckling, Sir John (1600-1642), 117, 

129, 226, 240, 294 
Surrey, Earl of. See Howard, Henry 
Swift, Jonathan (1667-174S), ", 35. 

46, 134, 162, 252, 280, 281, 393 
Sylvester, Joshua (1563-1618), 240 

Tabley, John Byrne Leicester, Baron 

de (1835-1895), 57 
Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon (1795- 

1854), 435 
Tannahill, Robert (1774-1810), 364 
Tarlton, Richard ( -1588), 202 

Taylor, James Bayard (1825-1878), 
34, 86, 223, 240, 241, 276, 312, 469 
Taylor, Jefferys (1 793-1853), 48 
Taylor, Sir Henry (1800-1886), 259 
Taylor, Tom (18 17-1880), 118, 180, 

198, 225, 287, 312, 324, 389 
Tennyson, Alfred (1809-189 2), 1, 7, 9, 
12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 32, 35, 
37, 38, 4°, 42, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 53. 
54, 56, 59, 69, 72, 73, 76, 80, 81, 90, 
93, 94, 97, 101, 104, 105, 106, 107, 
108, 112, 113, 116. 119, 120, 122, 
124, 128, 130, 132, 133, 135, 137, 



140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 148, 150, 
158, 160, 161, 162, 166, 167, 169, 
170, 171, 174, 175, 181, 182, 185, 
187, 189, 190, 192, 193, 200, 204, 
205, 211, 214, 219, 224, 225, 226, 
230, 231, 241, 242, 243, 244, 246, 
252, 253, 256, 259, 267, 268, 271, 
273, 275, 284, 287, 290, 291, 292, 
297, 300, 301, 302, 310, 313, 316, 
319, 322, 323, 328, 333, 334, 336, 
337, 338, 339, 341, 343, 347, 350, 
352, 354, 356, 357, 358, 368, 371, 
372, 373, 375, 377. 382, 384, 388, 
396, 399, 4°°, 4°4, 412, 413, 418, 
419, 421, 422, 426, 427, 430, 433, 
437, 442, 443, 454. 457. 461, 463, 
468, 470 
Terrett, William B., 241 
Thackeray, William Makepeace ( 18 1 1- 
1863), 32, 70, 82, 130, 150, 164, 255, 
264, 292, 294, 318, 319, 343, 348, 
389, 401, 439, 444 
Thaxter, Celia (1836-1894), 155 
Theobald, Lewis (1688-1744), 295 
Thessalonians, First Book of, 320 
Thomson, James (1700-1748), 3, n, 
18, 27, 37, 40, 43, 46, 53, 55, 102, 
114, 127, 152, 160, 162, 230, 288, 
289, 357, 382, 398, 437 
Thornbury, George Walter (1828- 

1876), 1, 152, 219, 458 
Thrale, Hester Lynch (1741-1822), 

224 
Thuriow, Lord. See Hovel, Edward 
Tickell, Thomas (1686-1740), 91, 395, 

428 
Timothy, First Book of, 267 
Timothy, Second Book of, 131 
Titcomb, Timothy. See Holland, 

Josiah Gilbert 
Tobin, John (1770-1804), 66 
Tourneur, Cyril (c. 1575-1626), 16, 93, 

Townley, James (1714-1778), 358 
Townsend, Mary Ashley (1836-1901), 

454 
Trumbull, John (1750-1831), 311 
Tucker, St. George (175 2-1828), 5 
Tuke, Sir Samuel ( -1674), 450 
Tusser, Thomas (_c. 1524-1580), 31, 52, 

211, 230, 255, 261, 271, 388, 407, 

444 
Twain, Mark. See Clemens, Samuel 

Langhorne 

Uhland, Johann Ludwig (1787-1862), 
381 

Van Dyke, Henry. See Dyke, Henry 

van 
Verulam, Baron. See Bacon, Francis, 

Lord Verulam 
Villeneuve, Pierre Charles (1763- 

1806), 132 
Visscher, Maria Tesselschade (1597- 

1649), 378, 412 



Index to Authors 



481 



Waddington, Samuel (1844- ), 377 
Wagner, Charles (1852- ), 190, 

208, 229, 279, 365 
Waller, Edmund (1606-1687), 106, 



Walton, Izaak (1593-1683), 7, 9, 10 
Warburton, Thomas, 291 
Washington, George (1732-1799). 432 
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 95. 17°. 

190, 218, 263, 371, 403 
Weatherly, Frederick Edward (1848- 

), 347 
Webb, Charles Henry (1834- ), 2 1, 

354 
Webster, Daniel (1782-1852), 112, 

192, 218, 340, 366, 420, 441 
Webster, John (c. 1580-c. 1640), 366 

390 
Welby, Amelia B. (1819-1852), 258 
Wellesley, Arthur. See Wellington, 

Duke of 
Wellington, Duke of (1769-1852), 166 
Wesley, John (1703-1791), 55 
Westcott, Edward Noyes (1847-1898), 

82, 133, 134, 187 
Whewell, William (1794-1866), 389 
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892), 43, 51, 

178, 180, 229, 307, 468 
Whittier, Elizabeth Hussey (1815- 

1864), 242 
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892), 

23, 32, 43. 90, 109, 120, 121, 134, 

144, 147, 154, 160, 172, 185, 186, 

214, 300, 314, 32r, 346, 353, 358, 

403, 436, 446, 464, 470 
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1855- ), 46, 

129, 152, 175, 212, 242, 313, 329, 

381 



Willard, Emma Hart (1787-1870), 84 
William, Prince of Orange (1533- 

1584), 93 
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury (1708- 

1759). 205 
Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867), 

47, 366 
Willson, Arabella M. (1789-1826), 357 
Wilson, John (1785-1854), 21 
Wither, George (1588-1667), 120, 201, 

260 
Wolcott, John (1738-1819), 123, 326, 

418 
Wolfe, Charles (1791-1823), 102, 153, 

313, 433 
Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842), 39, 

49 
Wordsworth, William (1 770-1850), 

25, 48, 49, 69, 73, 74, 91, 101, 121, 

128, 164, 180, 182, 188, 201, 225, 

229, 293, 301, 302, 316, 394, 396, 

404, 412, 413, 445, 446, 454, 463 
Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639), 7, 

418 
Wyat, Sir Thomas (c. 1503-1542), 215, 

256 



Young, Edward (1683-1765), 12, 13, 
14, 20, 24, 27, 28, 51, 59, 73. 76, 81, 
82, 84, 92, 94, 98, 104, 124, 127, 
137, 138, 146, 147, 157, 191, 198, 
210, 224, 227, 249, 251, 265, 269, 
272, 302, 305, 312, 316, 317, 318, 
322, 327, 336, 346, 362, 370, 376, 
377, 378, 380, 401, 404, 407, 411, 
414, 445, 446, 448, 468 



Zacharias, Pope ( 



-752), 202 



INDEX 



Abandon, all hope, 185 

the good soldier, never, 373 
Abashed for that, be not, 96 
Abbey, 1 
A B C, 1 

like a schoolboy that had lost his, 
239 
Abdallah's dead, ye say, 74 
Abdomen, took him in the, 350 
Abed, 1 

after midnight, not to be, 24 
Abhor each other, no 
Abhorred, in my imagination it is, 
how, 468 

perish hopeless and, 342 
Abhorrent of a calculation crossed, 

161 
Abide in my mother's house, I, 276 
Abides no handling, 44 
Ability, and keep one of greater, 397 
Abject spirit, doubting in his, 34 
Able and willing to pull his weight, 
54 

to work, when I am no longer, 460 
Abner Dean, of Angel's, 350 
Abode, ever reached that blessed, 374 

like the toad in his narrow, 446 

the strong gods pine for my, 159 
Abodes, aiming at the blessed, 316 
Aboding luckless time, 25 
About, about, in reel and rout, 81 
Above, but 't is not so, 289 

me, he is so, 384 

you, below or else, 240 
Abra, 1 

Abreast of truth, who would keep, 281 
Abridgment, 1 
Abroad, no news so bad, 281 

our peace at home and safety, 299 

that I should be, 64 

the schoolmaster is, 352 
Absalom, 1 
Absence, 1, 2 

of occupation, 333 
Absent child, of my, 16s 

together though, 409 
Absolute, that can with logic, 162 

the knave is, 43 
Abstain, the colt who is wise will, 253 
Abstemious, be more, 70 



Abstract war is horrid, not but wut, 

43i 
Abuse, he bore without, 150 

scoffing and, 368 
Abused, still by himself, 462 
Abusing of God 's patience, 113 
Abusive, to express the, 389 
Abysm of time, the dark backward and, 

407 
Abyss may be, the depth of the, 293 
Academes, the arts, the, 118 
Accent, that not a single, 210 

with swaggering, 287 
Accents, in still small, 298 

loved, are soon forgot, 209 
Accept their part, 150 

war, the other would, 431 
Acceptance, forge another to xake up 

the, 82 
Accepting, charms by, 400 
Accompanied with noble thoughts, 

that are, 403 
Accompt, 2 
Account, but sent to my, 370 

keep a regular debtor and creditor, 

352 
of empty boxes, a beggarly, 33 
Accumulate, on horror 's head horrors, 

186 
Accumulates, where wealth, 300 
Accursed, prove, 159 

the traitor most, 188 
Accuse, his weak indulgence will, 452 
Accused, by fools, 320 
Accusing spirit, the, which flew up to 

heaven's chancery, 287 
Ace for me, he trumped death 's, 77 
Ache, charm, with air, 5 
Acheron, on the shores of, 333 
Aches, 2 

Achieve and cherish, all which may, 
337 
greatness, some, 164 
Achiever brings home full numbers, 

when the, 425 
Achieving, 2 

Aching in the potter's hand, clay 
bleeding and, 107 
of heart, all the, 109 
void, they have left an, 300 
Acknowledged, there can be no less, 
212 



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Acorns, 2 

Acquainted, when we were first, 311 
Acquaintance be forgot, should auld, 
14 

decrease it upon better, 238 
Acre of barren ground, for an, 354 
Acres, over whose, 67 
Act a lover 's or a Roman 's part, to, 
236 

for him, God bade me, 93 

free to think and, 220 

incurs no blame, a necessary, 279 

is as an ancient tale new told, this, 
400 

pleasure in the, 103 

nor any unproportioned thought 
his, 411 

of God, think himself an, 248 

princes to, 383 

the kingliest, 144 

thyself shall see the, 199 

well your part, 184 
Acting bravely, 61 
Action, 2 

and pious, 88 

brave, asks word or, 144 

faithful, in, 385 

fine, makes that and the, 102 

in the tented field, 130 

lies, there the, 289 

lose the name of, 61 

men of, 225 

of battery, tell him of his, 214 

the fairest, 335 
Actions, a woman's thought runs be- 
fore her, 453 

of the just, only the, 199 

that a man might play, 448 
Actor stops, a moment yet the, 70 
Actors fill, God and nature do with, 383 

these our, 428 
Acts, 2 

already past, the first four, 109 

his, being seven ages, 383 

little nameless unremembered, 201 

so or so, why gals, 283 

the best, 227 

the man for a' that, 248 

unknown facts of guilty, 99 
Adage, poor cat i' the, 45 
Adam, 2 

and his wife, 148 

and of Eve, the son of, 317 

called her woman, 449 

dolve, when, 149 

first was fooled, as father, 449 

sat under the tree, 13 
Adamant, on, our wrongs we all en- 
grave, 467 

that Adam was not, 2 
Adam's profession, they hold up, 15c 
Add a little care, but, 396 

another hue, or, 152 
Adder stung, thou serpent never, 412 
Adder 's fork and blind-worm 's sting, 
179 



Adding fuel to the flame, 147 
Addle as an egg, beaten as, 322 
Addressed, to the realm of death, 401 
Adieu, 2, 3 

Ad infinitum, so proceed, 134 
Adjust it, we never can, 172 
Administered, whate'er is best, 161 
Admiralty, the price of, 113 
Admiration, 3 

gave his tail a twirl of, 432 
Admire by far, more, 408 

that riches grow in hell, none, 336 
Admired, but not to be, 452 

never more, 46 
Admission to our hearts, pleads, 85 
Admittance, no, at this wicket, 345 
Admitted to that equal sky, 176 
Ado, no more, 158 
Adore, and infidels, 197 

you, the more I '11, 59 
Adored, in every clime, 127 
Adores the Maker, who, 247 
Adorn a tale, or, 274 
Adorned, 3 

thy humble grave, 139 
Adorns and cheers the way, 185 

with arts, and, 234 
Adoption tried, and their, 146 
Adulteries of art, than all the, 364 
Advance the flag of Dixie, 94 
Advanced so nobly, they thus far, 276 

they have thus far so nobly, 276 
Advantage dressed, nature to, 447 

nailed for our, 67 
Advantageous to life, everything, 223 
Adventure of the diver, two points in 

the, 93 
Adversaries do in law, do as, 214 

the souls of fearful, 432 
Adversary's heart, his, 335 
Adversity, 3 

doth best discover virtue, 427 
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, 

3°3 
Advice, 3 

has often stilled, 93 

may take a knave 's, 205 
Advise, his mistaken patron to, 397 
^Eons, whirled for a million, 18 
Etna's breast of flame, in, 233 
Afar, cometh from, 25 

seeing each other, 339 
Affairs, God prosper your, 319 

in their sleeps will mutter their, 371 

of men, a tide in the, 405 

the privatest of men's, 120 
Affect, study what you most, 391 
Affection, 3, 4 

limb, nor beauty, 336 

preferment goes by letter and, 315 

too much of amorous, 8 
Affection's a tear, the test of, 398 
Affections, and his, dark as Erebus, 
273 

mild, of, 252 
97 



Index 



485 



Affects to nod, 155 
Afflict me, how dost thou, 61 
Affliction, 4 
alters, 240 
of all, 139 
Afford to play cards for money, can- 
not, 234 
Affords no law, the world, 463 

such pity as my rapier's point, 305 
Affright our souls, dreams, 99 
Affrighted from his nest, 181 
Affront, 4 

fear is, 450 
Afghanistan 's plains, wounded and 

left on, 373 
Afire with God, every common bush, 

153 
Afloat, 4 
Afraid, and not a man, 181 

be not, 369 

not, even with the vineyard 's best 
produce, 288 

of, that I confess I 'm, 283 

show the world that he feels, 461 

to strike, and yet, 7 1 

we're not, 413 
Afric maps, in, 252 
African, to blanch an, 266 
Alter-days, raise this soul to God in, 
293 

twine for me in, 104 
After-dinner talk, in, 396 
Afternoon, 4 

another quarter toward the, 434 

a wench married in an, 254 
Afterthought, a mine of, 274 
Again at Christmas did we weave, 52 

that should applaud, 1 1 
Age. 4. 5 

be comfort to my, 326 

before a sprightlier, 228 

boy was the very staff of my, 383 

by years, reckon their, 398 

each, each kindred, 24 

grow dim with, 191 

has no honey, 4 

he can do nothing in this, 352 

he would not in mine, 357 

in every, 127 

in this iron, 194 

lends the graces that are sure to 
please, 94 

my, is as a lusty winter, 357 

never an, 248 

of chivalry is gone, the, 50 

the cricket chirps, in, 470 

the labour of an, 29 

the toys of, 49 

thou smitest sore, man of, 372 

time-tutored, 65 

to a gaping, 278 

to grace this latter, 422 

well suited to the, 379 
Aged bosom, in an, 60 

man, said the, 162 

which means certainly, 4 



Agencies vary, how widely its, 157 
Agents of the people, servants and, 
289 

while night's black, 282 
Ages, and to the next, 258 

believe that in all, 156 

his acts being seven, 383 

in his face, the emptiness of, 180 

in their hearts the feuds of, 130 

in three distant, 309 

look, the suffering, 188 

one increasing purpose, through 
the, 322 

past, hoary seers of, 334 

past, once in the flight of, 228 

rock of, cleft for me, 340 
Agitation, in the complicated, 365 
A-gley, gang aft, 261 
Agog, and all, 72 
Agonies, out of its, 210 

we suffer, the, 172 
Agony, 5 

all night I lay in, 282 

but conquers, 152 

mirth cannot move a soul in, 264 

of some strong swimmer in his, 395 

of the stern, 362 

of this life, the long, 222 
Agree, never did in time, 429 

oil, vinegar, sugar, andsaltness, 349 

then all sides must, 376 

while souls and bodies in one frame, 
378 

with our external parts, should 
well, 456 

with his peculiar whim, 171 
Agrees as ill with Rufa studying 

Locke, 410 
Agues, to find out, 306 
Ahs, one stormy gust of long-sus- 
pended, 188 
Aid, apt alliterations artful, 6 

if men will call, saints will, 348 

for some wretch 's, 216 

of my feller-critter's, 313 

the freeman's laws, to, 144 

the truth, cannon-balls may, 159 

us, boys the Lord will, 38 

we '11 win our battle by its, 159 
Aidenn, within the distant, 246 
Aideth the poor, who, 181 
Ails it now, something, 69 
Aim, stick to your, 40 

their horns, bulls, 14 
Aiming at the blessed abodes, still is, 

316 
Aimless course, in wayward, 322 

feet, nothing walks with, 160 
Air, 5 

all be lost in, 125 

and fame, 123 

and I found them, 302 

a solemn stillness holds, all the, 209 

a sup of New England's, 281 

a vanour, 219 

away! through the sightless, 152 



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Air 

bombs bursting in, 17 

charm ache with, 5 

fills the silent, 268 

he says with solemn, 464 

if their lungs receive our, 368 

I mean pewer, 357 

into thin air, melted into, 428 

let out to warm the, 393 

lift their fronded palms in, 43 

like the, 176 

love can feed on the, 240 

love free as, 233 

mock our eyes with, 56 

of night, in the icy, 23 

on the desert, 149 

only to kiss that, 100 

out in the empty, 313 

out in the midnight, 40 

perfuming, the morning, 343 

she could only take the, 416 

she says those words were, 428 

that do corrupt my, 69 

the, the skies, 293 

the look, the, 377 

the sea and the, 196 

there is in a gaol better, 359 

thoughts shut up want, 404 

through the field of, 386 

throw it up into the, 389 

trifles light as, 195 

unwholesome, made the, 43 

what is that honour, 185 

when on the undulating, 52 

with weary wing the, 340 
Air-drawn dagger, the, 70 
Airs of England, the martial, 112 
Aisle, through the long-drawn, 10 
Aisles of Christian Rome, and groined 
the, 39 

of the ancient church, now the, 
464 
Aiax, this love is as mad as, 238 
Alabaster, and smooth as monumental, 
367 

his grandsire cut in, 264 
A-land, as men do, 133 
Alarmed, raptured or, 377 
Alarms, a blow which while it exe- 
cutes, 81 
Alarum, 5 
Albatross, 5 
Alcalde, 5 

Alchemist, the sovereign, 162 
Alcohol, much more stimulating than, 

387 
Alcoholic, 5 
Ale, 6 

no more cakes and, 427 

nor wanted they gude beef and, 267 

take the size of pots of, 6 

than a draught of Old England's, 
281 

the monks of St. Bothan's, 267 
Alexander, the noble dust of, 421 
Alexandrine, 6 



Alfred named, Truth-teller was our 

England's, 418 
Algebra, 6 

Alice, don't you remember sweet, 29 
Alike, come out, 220 
Alive, bears not, 381 

bricks are, 36 

ridiculous, 462 

the spirit keeps, 380 

to grace this latter age, is now, 322 

who think themselves, 75 
All a dream, which was not, 98 

a lie, a lie which is, 219 

a muddle, 't is, 271 

are but parts of one stupendous 
whole, 297 

are made of clay, 55 

be masters, we cannot, 255 

hell broke loose, 178 

her men, drawing force from, 277 

I know is, 78 

in all, and, 135 

in all, take him for, 250 

is not lost, 231 

may do what has by man been done, 
94 

my pretty chickens, 49 

night I lay in agony, 282 

night, the sleeping woods, 37 

sorts of people, golden opinions 
from, 290 

that, a man's a man for, 248 

that, and not a man for, 248 

that, brothers be for, 38 

that inhabit this great earth, 201 

that in him lies, 54 

that was, in, 18 

the day, merry heart goes, 174 

things, causes why and wherefore 
in, 288 

things, free to prove, 320 

things, great lord of, 462 

things, prove, 320 

things, see through, 57 

things, there's music in, 212 

things, sweet are, 394 

things, though equal to, 141 

things are bought, with which, 369 

things both great and small, 3 14 

things by a law divine, 366 

things clad, 116 

things in heaven and earth, 212 

this, must I endure, no 

this is ours, 106 

was ended now, 109 
Alia Hu, 63 

given by, 233 

Ilia Allah, la, 232 
Allah's throne above, viewed from, 

231 
Allay the gust, to, 323 

you would quench or but, 327 
Alleged, when it is, 253 
Allegiance swear, to these I do, 170 
Allegory, 6 
Alley, 6 



Index 



487 



Alley 

and she lives in our, 74 
Alliances. 6 
Allied, are sure to madness near, 245 

by birth, are kindred and, 201 
Alliteration, 6 
Allow, my good, 160 
All-softening, o'erpowering knell, 92 
Allured him, as the beacon-blaze al- 
lures, 25 
Almanac, he doth not lack an, 470 
Almighty, 6 

dollar, the, 96 

Master, do not tell me the, 15s 
Almighty's orders to perform, pleased 

the, 388 
Alms, 7 

for oblivion, wherein he puts, 407 

should sue, for, 126 

who gives himself with his, 181 
Aloft, that sits up, 48 
Alone, 7 

and warming his five wits, 292 

blind and wailing and, 15 

heart is left, 172 

I am, 146 

in his glory, we left him, 153 

in the cold I end, 57 

they are never, 403 

you must drink life's gall, 152 
Alonzo the Brave, to the health of, 3 79 
Alps, the soaring eagle of the, 332 

though perched on, 322 
Altar of Mammon, before the, 253 

one nearer to God's, 312 
Altar's God, the other to the, 312 
Altars, a priest at her, 63 

the hush of our dread high, 1 
Altar-stairs, 7 
Alter a decree established, can, 315 

their rate of going, or, 403 
Altered strangely, titles now are, 407 
Alum and plaster, chalk and, 35 
Alway, I would not live, 228 
Amazement, what a strange delicious, 

76 
Amazon, a cruel, haughty, blood- 
stained, 143 
Ambassador, 7 
Amber, pretty in, 458 

when tipped with, 408 
Ambition, 7 

death for his, 7 

fame, love, wine, 274 

in my love, the, 384 

mock, let not, 310 

to reign is worth, 329 

virtue, that make, 125 
Ambition's airy hall, was once, 367 

ladder, lowliness is young, 7 
Ambitious, 7, 8 
Ambles well, your wit, 447 

withal, who time, 406 
Amen, 8 

like the sound of a great, 51 

Lord say, 429 



Amen 

sigh and say, 372 

Amends, by way of, 318 

America, 8 

American, 8 

Amiss, though there's nothing, 203 

Amorous, 8 

causes springs, dire offence from, 
414 

Amos Cottle, Phcebus! what a name, 
274 

Amount o' fleas, a reasonable, 134 

Amuse themselves and other children, 
they, 321 

Anarchy and wrath, tears and, 143 
institute and digest of, 338 

Ancestors no shame, done our, 89 

Ancestral thirst, vengeance, the, 130 
tree, on my, 342 

Anchor, 8, 9 

Anchoret, no prisoner but an, 318 

Anchorite, could tempt the dying, 349 

Anchors, great, 102 

Anchovy sauce, a magic soupgon of, 
349 

Ancient as the sun, 180 

days, deeds she wrought in, 1 1 1 
form, keep an, 140 
mariner, I fear thee, 253 
people, they that marry, 254 
tale new told, as an, 400 

Andrew and his love of law, Sir, 235 

Angel, 9 

a guardian, o'er his life presiding, 

443 
a ministering, shall my sister be, 

426 
dropped down from the clouds, 187 
guise, transfigured into, 416 
it may be that Death 's bright, 5 1 
of death spread his wings, 77 
of Life winds them up, the, 33 
of the Resurrection, hand of the, 33 
rolls the stone away, till the last, 13 
the recording, as he wrote it down, 

287 
thou, a ministering, 453 
till you find the deathless, 338 
was a cruel, that the, 143 

Angel-guard of loves and graces lie, 
452 

Angelic light, with something of, 454 

Angel's, Abner Dean of, 350 
finger rest, where shall the, 91 
psalm, like the close of an, 374 
touch remain, where, 91 
wing, a quill from an, 301 
wing, dropped from an, 301 
wing, he asks no, 176 

Angels, 9 

are, our acts our, 2 
are painted fair, 4s 2 
could no more, 24 
do, sweet as the, 352 
face, her, 119 
fear to tread, where, 138 



Index 



Angels 

fell the, 7 

guardian, sung this strain, 37 

how did he git thar, 404 

I b'lieve in God and the, 330 

in heaven above, the, 236 

lackey her, 47 

may, and in the hereafter, 186 

might talk with men, 417 

name Lenore, whom the, 246 

need the tears of all the, 449 

of deliverance, knows not its, 255 

sad as, 287 

say, Sister Spirit, 170 

shared, with, 233 

those evil, 32s 

till our passion dies, ne'er like, 297 

uncurtained that repose, 105 

wait, while, 184 

weep, as make the, 251 

weep, tears such as, 398 

within it, 292 

wooing, women are, 457 

would, be gods, 316 
Angels' feet, marks of, 460 
Anger, 9 

at peace, 208 

countenance more in sorrow than 
in, 3 75 

in their, was a sin, 141 

of my heart, will tell the, 412 

of the wise, fear not the, 332 

that carries, 209 

they banish our, 212 
Angered, puffs away from thence, and 

being, 444 
Angle, 9 
Angle-rod made of a sturdy oak, his, 

439 
Angling, 10 

Angry at a slander, who's, 368 
Anguish, 10 

here tell your, 375 

lessened by another 's, 131 

of patience, constant, 109 

to discover, what, 242 

when pain and, 453 
Animal at best, is but an, 248 

unfledged, man is an, 249 
Animals, that souls of, 378 

too, and rampant, 56 
Animate the whole, 349 
Annabel Lee, of the beautiful, 236 
Annals of the human race, the, 228 

of the poor, 310 
Anne Hathaway, 436 
Annie Laurie, but all sang, 241 
Annual income, twenty pounds, 192 
Anoint me, I will, 365 
Anointed, 10 

I am the Lord's, 108 
Another blow, to strike, 130 

Helen, like. 177 

man's doxy, heterodoxy is, 291 

man's eyes, through, 170 

man's ground, built on, 187 



Another morn than ours, 105 

one, know from, 5 7 

place there is, 114 

sailing o'er life's solemn main, 138 

star, emigrated to, 109 

still, 53 

then here goes, 286 

though I called, 1 

who'd give her booby for, 270 
Another's gain, or but subserves, 160 
Answer, 10 

and cannot, 82 

a letter, may, 216 

be to them, what will thine, 131 

each other in the mist, 52 

for, few sins of thine own to, 449 

for it, guv'ment ain't to, 156 

him, ye owls, 282 

his brute question, how, 147 

in his own, finds a, 144 

me, deep caverns of darkness, 163 

no, dared not, 283 

that, I'll not, 103 

trickled through my head, his, 414 
Answerable, how his spirit stands, 298 
Answered so, will not be, 195 

the wilt thou, 290 

you last night, yes I, 468 
Answers, 10 

life's great end, which, 224 

she who ne'er, 189 

where, an echo, 107 
Anthem, 10 

swells the note of praise, 10 
Anti, 10 

Antic the law, old father, 213 
Antidote, with some sweet oblivious, 

263 
Antidotes are poison, his, 303 
Antiquity, 10 

from all, 78 
Any, enough to, 141 

man, or so can, 381 

thing is to be got, where, 394 
Anywhere out of the world, 244 
Apart, standing with mute lips, 115 
Ape and tiger die, let the, 20 

like an angry, 251 

there was an, 311 
Apes, 10 

humility, is pride that, 316 
Apollyon shoots darts, and, 226 
Apology, 11 

Apostasy, were the price of, 416 
Apostles, 11 

shrank, while, 67 

would have done, all the, 51 
Apostolic blows and knocks, by, 329 
Apothecary, 11 

Appal the devil, which might, 251 
Apparatus of the system, all the, 33 
Apparel, 11 

do, as men their best, 446 

wears out more, 126 
Apparition, a lovely, 302 
Appealing from his native sod, 388 



Index 



Appear the better reason, 122 

to the world, what I may, 417 
Appeared, wheresoever he, 128 
Appears, Roman honour more, 145 
Appease thee, prayers cannot, 15 
Appeased, the Eternal's wrath, 301 
Appetite, n 

for emetics, contract so strong an, 
109 

for moral good, whets his, 312 

may sicken, the, 273 

the hungry edge of, 191 

wait on, 9 1 

you have, with what, 35 
Appetites, other women cloy the, 5 
Applaud, 11 
Applause, 11 
Apple, 11 

had she, only one, 115 

pressed with specious cant, 2 
Apples, 11 

hearts like, 175 

on the Dead Sea's shore, 76 

to seize, the, 353 
Appliance, by desperate, 86 
Application on it, lays in the, 287 

that's turned by, 413 
Appointed end, rolls to its, 322 
Appreciate heaven well, to, 176 
Apprehend more than cool reason 

comprehends, 243 
Apprehension, is most in, 80 
Apprentice hand, her, 211 
Approach thou like the rugged, 72 

thy grave, 227 
Approbation, 11, 12 

gives manhood more, 287 
Approve it, will bless it and, 330 
Approved, by all, 385 
Approving none, and, 361 
April day, of an, 240 

when they woo, men are, 457 
April 's breeze unfurled, their flag to, 

362 
Aprons, mechanic slaves with greasy, 

368 
Apron-strings of an American mother, 

the, 8 
Apt alliterations artful aid, 6 

and punctual, are very, 122 
Aptest, the harshest word comes, 114 
Arab, 12 

tents are rude for thee, 85 
Arabia, all the perfumes of, 169 
Arabian trees, drop tears as fast as the, 

399 
Arabs, like the, 44 
Arbitrator, that old common, 109 
Arcades ambo, 26 
Arch Fear, the, where he stands, 78 

look on its broken, 367 

the sky one blue interminable, 368 
Archangel call archangel, 275 

the strong, 248 
Arched the flood, by the rude bridge 
that, 362 



Archer, 12 

little meant, mark the, 358 
Arcite, the soul of, 376 
Are, 12 

Argosies of magic sails, 59 
Argue, 12 

down or mask your passions, can, 
298 

not against heaven's hand, I, 387 

plead, expound and, 283 
Argues a monstrous life, 80 

yourselves unknown, not to know 
me, 421 
Arguing too, in, 12 

Argument, finer than the staple of 
"his, 424 

for a week, 196 

for lack of, 395 

of tyrants, necessity is the, 279 

stir without great, 164 
Arguments, ear-kissing, 106 

use wagers, fools for, 137 
Arise, Columbia, to glory, 58 

for Charlie's sake I will, 365 

or be for ever fallen, 15 

O Christ, I will, 437 

O soul, 126 

the happier to, 121 

these stones, 145 

ye Goths, 193 
Arising, at break of day, 210 
Arithmetic, reading, writing and, 187 
Ark, 12 
Arm, 12 

alone, to thy, 156 

because his strong right, 248 

brought the freeman's, 144 

for life's combat, nerveth his, 410 

lay bare thine, 388 

in arm, not, 363 

my soul I, 311 

or an, 184 

should conquer twenty worlds, 
though mine, 61 

slumbers in a peasant's, 300 

soon shall thy, 386 

was there, thy, 156 

will never be stronger, your, 409 

wi' the auld moon in her, 267 

would wither, there is an, 10 
Arm-chair, 12 

saw her die in that old, 173 
Armed, 12 

camp, Christendom is an, 42 

so strong in honesty, I am, 404 
Armies swore terribly in Flanders, 

our, 39s 
Armour against fate, there is no, 127 

is his honest thought, whose, 418 
Arms, 12, 13 

about my dearie, 44 

and fleet in my, 47 

and moves his doubtful, 442 

corners of the world in, 112 

first that ever bore, 150 

fold thine, 3s 



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Index 



forge, in your defence to bear, 35s 

gold provokes the world to, 158 

hug it in mine, 90 

in other's, 402 

in the same encircling, 416 

more strong than traitors', 192 

never would lay down my, 8 

of strength are made, where my, 
386 

or to take, 19 

other, may press thee, 331 

our first breath in their, 455 

outstretched, with his, 167 

reversed, with, 433 

rolled in one another 's, 108 

strength in her, 142 

take your last embrace, 118 

to, in Dixie, 94 

to front a lie in, 146 

we start from the Mother's, 56 

ye forge, the, 355 
Army, an Austrian, 14 

head of the, 171 

of collectors, quite an, 92 
Arose from out the azure main, 37 
Around, the ice was all, 190 

'twas ice, 190 
Array, battle 's magnificently stern, 19 

change his bed of fiery rich, 8 

in grim, 282 
Arrayed, awfully, 14 
Arrears, pay glad life 's, 78 

were brought up, then its, 389 
Arrest, strict in his, 80 
Arrows, the slings and, 19 
Art, 13 

all nature is but, 337 

but heart which wins, not, 175 

can copy, cherub no, 96 

can wash her guilt away, what, 136 

is long, 163 

is of ending, greater the, 109 

is too precise, than when, 364 

I want that glib and oily, 321 

may err, 277 

measure their life by, 398 

no magical, 72 

not chance, comes from, 467 

not what thou wast, thou, 232 

of beginning, great is the, 109 

of hearts, love is the, 232 

of perceiving, in the, 54 

o' letter-writin', that's the great, 
216 

seeking not the praise of, 466 

than all the adulteries of, 364 

the only, 136 

the sculptor 's, 410 

't is all thou, 334 

war's glorious, 272 

whatever thou, 236 

with curious, 33 

without poetry, music, and, 63 
Artful aid, apt alliterations, 6 

to no end, 462 



Articles of ladies fair, 20 

Artificer, 13 

Artificial, all things are, 13 

tears, with, 118 
Artillery, 13 

by infallible, 329 
Artist wills, made to be fashioned as 

the, 107 
Arts, 13 

and adorns with, 234 

and heart of, 232 

essayed, no, 452 

in which the wise excel, of all those, 
467 

of peace, the inglorious, 299 

the books, the, 118 
Ascend, a muse of fire that would, 272 

by which he did, 7 
Ascent to high office is steep, the, 305 
Ascribe to heaven, which we, 330 

we all, 156 
Ashamed to confess it, nor am I, 283 
Ashes, 13 

and mingle with forgotten, 81 

and of embers spent, 4 

and praty-skins, 16 

burn, in itself to, 48 

e'en in our, 35 

laid at last old Troy in, 452 

lay, where Milton 's, 29 

may be made, and from his, 426 

of his father, for the, 89 

to the taste, 76 

watched, the martyrs', 441 
Ashore, till the last soul got, 329 
Aside she threw, her old-world moulds, 

179 
Ask it o' yoursel', 234 

me how many I'd have, 205 

me no questions, 323 

me to take none, don't, 32 

nay do not, 328 

not, I, 236 

not if neighbour grind, 207 

not such from thee, 354 

vainly, you should not, 76 

where 's the North, 284 
Asked but what he heard his father 
say, 416 

enough, I'm sure he has been, 290 

one another the reason, but they, 
242 

the Wilt thou, 290 

you, sir, nobody, 246 
Askew sets, somehow, 60 
Asking, had for only the, 3 

how or why, 357 

may be had for the, 177 

to be done agin it's oilers, 40 
Asleep, between a man, 369 

in the sun, that hath lain, 322 

over the buttons I fall, 460 

tide as moving seems, 18 
Aspect, distraction in 's, 307 

he rose, with grave, 85 

nothing in nature's, 75 



Index 



491 



Aspen made, by the light quivering, 

453 
Aspire, but light and will, 240 
Aspireth to it, honour, 77 
Aspires, who, 7 
Ass, 13 

to say another is an, 340 

whose back with ingots bows, 336 

will not mend his pace, 33 
Assent with civil leer, 7 1 
Asses, 14 

nations like o'erloaded, 55 
Asses' milk and writing, this comes of 

drinking, 466 
Assume among the powers of the 
earth, and to, 356 

a virtue if you have it not, 42 7 
Assumes some mark of virtue, 425 

the god, 155 
Assurance, 14 

to give the world, 250 
Assured alone that life and death, 147 

of what he 's most, 251 
Assyrian, 14 

piles, Shem's proud children reared 
the, 350 
Astray, if weak women went, 456 
Astronomer, 14 
Ate by his side, with, 335 
Ate into itself, for lack, 26 
Atheism, 14 

and religion, and, 330 
Atheist, 14 

Athena 's wisest son, 206 
A-tiptoe when this day is named, 66 
Atlantic Ocean, the, beat Mrs. Par- 
tington, 297 
Atlantis, 14 
Atmosphere of intellect, where the, 

. 38? 

Atoms or systems into rum, 38 

Atone, fully and well, 172 

my witchcrafts to, 448 
Atones, blood for blood, 15 
Atropos, sever, 380 
Attain, to something nobler we, 170 
Attains the upmost round, 7 
Attaint, since Lucifer's, 316 
Attempt, 14 

by fearingto, 97 

my last faint, despairing, 389 

that dares love, 239 
Attempted, something, 410 
Attempting to do well, dissuading you 

from, 302 
Attend all ye who list to hear, in 
Attendance on their lordships' pleas- 
ure, 71 
Attending Captain 111, Captive Good, 

41.7 
Attention, enforce, 105 
Attire doth show her wit, 20 

so wild in their, 448 

walk in silk, 364. 
Attraction, with his great, 402 
Attractive, 14 



Attracts each light gay meteor, 410 
Attribute to awe- and majesty, 260 

to God himself, an, 260 
Audit here, whoso seeks an, 36 
Augurs because they were bores, 31 
Augustine, well hast thou said, 170 
Auld Lang Syne, 14 
Aunt, they braced my, 208 

was an O'Shaughnessy, his, 348 
Austrian, 14 

Author health again dispense, should 
my, 429 

in the world, any, 118 

of such a book of follies, the, 449 
Authority, a little brief, 251 

and show by sanction of, 92 

be a stubborn bear, 158 

for their robbery have, 386 

of the circumlocution office, 54 

wrest once the law to your, 213 
Authorized by her grandam, 389 
Authors, 14 
Automaton, the works of this horrid, 

403 
Autumn hath blown, when, 216 

of adversity, in the, 3 

't was, 32 
Autumnal leaves that strow the 

brooks, 216 
Avail the plough or sail, what, 143 
Availed on high, 125 
Availeth, say not the struggle nought, 



Avalanche of men, 1 19 

Avarice, 15 

Avenge even a look, to, 50 

Avenged, 15 

Avenging, 15 

Aversion, and left his widow to her 

own, 441 
Avert, courage can, 189 
Averted gaze, with, 121 
Avoid, all these you may, 218 

it, or crush it, 449 

the man I should, 126 

what is to come, 60 
Avoided, trouble afterwards may be, 
96 

what can be, 157 

what cannot be, 65 
Avoirdupois, turn the scales between 

their, 351 
Avon, sweet swan of, 394 

to the Severn runs, the, 441 
Avowed foe, give me the, 145 
Await alike the inevitable hour, 163 
Awake, 15 

Awakens, when he, 91 
Awakes, and the soul, 77 
Awards it, the court, 134 
Awe and majesty, the attribute to, 
260 

the lifted hand in, 272 

to keep the strong in, 61 

which kept the world in, 421 



49 2 



Index 



Aweary, 15 

Awes if seen, and, 316 

Awful cope, beneath that, 115 

voice, the, 28 

will, bow before the, 150 
Awfully arrayed, an Austrian army, 

14 
Awkward hand in a row, and, 13s 

thing, 't is an, 378 
Awoke one morning, I, 124 
Awry, their currents turn, 61 
Axe, 15 

a butcher with an, 41 

had seen their chips, never an, 437 

many strokes though with a little, 
390 

the, the mill, 212 
Axis, 15 

Axle-tree, on the, 309 
Azure main, arose from out the, 37 



Baal, the golden calf of, 42 
Babble, for the watch to, 434 
Babbled of green fields, and a', 3S9 
Babe again, awakens my, 91 

forlorn, a, 377 

like a testy, 341 

taxation, and her suckling, 432 
Babes, a blessing on his wife and, 313 
Baboon and monkey, bred out into, 

267 
Baby, 15, 16 

died, and new-born, 425 

his, at her breast, 89 

oh hush thee my, 390 

some blamed the, 348 
Baby 's dimple be, where shall the, 9 1 

nest, when he comes down to the, 
91 
Bacchus, 16 
Back against a rock he bore, his, 136 

and side go bare, 6 

a wallet at his, 407 

daily burden for the, 40 

harness on our, 90 

has never a shirt on his, 360 

hath borne me on his, 468 

one who never turned his, 337 

on heaven, find me and turn thy, 
159 

the burden of the world, on his, 180 

their own opinions with a wager, 
429 

thumps upon your, 405 

to back in God's name, stand, 131 

unto the ladder turns his, 7 

yard, it's jest your own, 288 
Backed like a weasel, 56 
Background of God, there's a, 314 
Backs his rigid Sabbath, who, 247 

proudly on their, 141 
Backward and abysm of time, the 
dark, 407 



Backward, turn backward, 340 
Back-wounding calumny strikes, 42 
Bacon shined, think how, 123 
Bachelor, 16 
Bachelor's Hall, 16 
Bad, 16 

abroad, no news so, 281 

a death, so, 80 

and mad it was, how sad and, 394 

angel fire my good one, 9 

a thousandfold, good or, 157 

man, a bold, 29 

man, this bold, 29 

news, to bring, 281 

nothing either good or, 402 

of every land, something good and, 
8 

one, never fails to see a, 70 

peace, a good war or a, 430 

so you o'ergreen my, 160 

sons, good wombs have borne, 374 

the poor in a loomp is, 310 

things in this world, but two, 24 

wiser being good than, 139 

work follers ye ez long 's ye live, 40 

workman, is a, 208 

would make good of, 24 

your sentiment only that I find, 397 
Bade him go, and they, 183 

it blossom there, and, 77 
Badge of all our tribe, sufferance is 

the, 392 
Baffle his design, may, 262 
Baffled oft, though, 142 

to fight better, are, 337 
Bag and baggage, not with, 334 
Baggage, not with bag and, 334 
Bail, a good conscience is my, 318 
Bairns, 16 
Bait, 16 

thy hook, with saints dost, 347 
Baited, his hook he, 439 

with reasons not unplausible, 4S9 
Baits, while good news, 281 
Bake, there's bread in the, 254 
Baker, see you a-shaving of a, 225 
Bakers, we can't go beyond, 225 
Baking on the Sunday, no worse than, 

393 
Balance, 16 

and weight, a, 369 

then at the, 172 

which shall show a floating, 3S2 
Balcony, the rose upon my, 343 
Bald, but now your brow is, 311 

unjointed chat, 47 
Bales, dropping down with costly, 59 

unopened to the sun, like, 404 
Ball, that melts the, 227 
Ballad, with a woeful, 242 
Ballad-makers, increase tailors, and 

breed, 299 
Ballad-mongers, one of these same 

metre, 205 
Ballads, 16 
Ball-room's belle, she was not the, 296 



Index 



493 



Balm, 17 

of hurt minds, 370 
Balms for all our pain, there are, 470 
Balsams, give it all sorts of, 64 
Ban, heaven's benison or, 328 
Band, find leash or, 344 

heaven-born, 58 

its children a happy, 209 

seam and gusset and, 460 
Ban-dogs howl, and, 352 
Bane, that soil may best deserve the 

precious, 336 
Baned, ten thousand ducats to have 

it, 3 2 5 
Bang, many a stiff thwack, many a, 

405 
Banish our anger, they, 212 

those, and, 379 

you, I, 69 
Banished who returned, the, 332 

yet a trueborn Englishman, 113 
Banishment, 17 

Banjo an' de 'possum, dar's de, 281 
Bank, 17 

hold her nozzle agin the, 329 

of violets, that breathes upon a, 273 
Banker, beggar and, 21 
Bankrupt quite the wits, but, 298 
Banks dispense with bolts and locks, 
when, 216 

of Seine, to the sunny, 332 

of that lonely river, on the, 296 

of the Nile, an allegory on the, 6 
Banner, 17 

freedom's, 17 

in the sky, danced to see that, 114 

of England blew, our, 112 

that glances, the tree in his, 49 

the royal, 125 
Banner's massy fold, unfurled that, 

Banners, 17 

taken, they show the, 433 

that host with their, 216 
Banquet, the joys of his, 153 

the mind shall, 263 

there no forced, 333 
Banquet-hall, 17 
Baptist, a kind of maddened John the, 

r, II4 

Bar, 17, 18 

and the leaping, 247 

between us, save for the, 243 

'cross Bilbao, 115 

good-bye to the, 132 

it out, right to, no 

the harbour, be moaning, 132 

tried at the litigious, 455 
Barbarians, there were his young, 181 
Barbarism, 18 
Barbered, 18 
Barbers shave, no, 345 
Barcan wilderness, pierce the, 74 
Bard, 18 

to the skies, which carries a, 445 
Bards are not chameleons, 123 



Bards burn, and, 123 
Bare, albeit the place be, 96 

and shiny head, nothing like a, 94 

him to the blast, may, 328 

the gift without the giver is, 181 

without it, meeting were, 129 
Barefaced on the bier, 24 
Barefoot on her wedding-day, 10 
Bargain, 18 

a dateless, 118 

for the graves, we, 176 

with a holy kiss, seal the, 204 
Bargains, on me, my, 193 
Barge, drag the slow, 386 
Bark, 18 

and bite, delight to, 95 

and leaves, 308 

at me, they, 95 

feels afraid of its, 461 

grows sharp and savage, 64 

is my bride, my, 4 

is on the sea, 28 

let no dog, 291 

let the labouring, 400 

our poor devoted, 26 

the watch-dog 's honest, 438 
Barkis is willin', 443 
Barleycorn, 18, 19 
Barnaby, yet whoop, 26 
Baron's retainers, and the, 265 
Barracks, but single men in, 349 
Barred from real life, and, 76 

my gates with iron, I, 284 
Barrel, there's beer in the, 254 
Barriers fall, the, 78 

strong, parted by, 339 
Bars, and solitude, locks, 318 

forty flags with their crimson, 134 

nor iron, a cage, 318 

ob de sheepfol', he le' down de, 358 
Barter away that precious jewel, 42 

prey for prey, to, 10 
Bartered, hoarded, 157 
Base degrees, scorning the, 7 

from its firm, 136 

is he who 'neath the shade, most, 
64 

so, that would be a bondman, 29 

uses, to what, 421 
Baseless as the fantastic visions, as, 

Baseness to write fair, a, 466 

where low-browed, 385 
Bastard Latin, that soft, 210 
Bastion, 19 
Bat night has flown, black, 148 

wool of, 179 
Bate a jot of heart or hope, nor, 387 

his usual height, 135 

me some, 318 

thee a scruple, I will not, 353 
Bated breath and whispering humble- 
ness, 35 
Bath, sore labour s, 370 
Bathe in fiery floods, 90 

in me, mother and child, 247, 419 



494 



Index 



Battalions, not single spies but in, 375 
Batten on this moor, and, 269 
Battered to repair, 353 
Battery, boldly by, 14 

tell him of his action of, 214 
Battle, 19 

and strife, hatred, 215 

and the breeze, braved the, no 

are half the, 43 1 

by its aid, we '11 win our, 159 

driven, rushed the steed to, 13 

for the saints and for the Lord, 39s 

from afar, he sniffed the, 386 

from afar, I watched the, 433 

he has fought may not be won, 62 

he never walked to, 351 

he- that is in, 130 

he who is in, 130 

in the lost, 83 

is the blended sound of, 461 

knows, nor the division of a, 382 

of life, who fell in the, 61 

once begun, freedom 's, 142 

pops, how pefore de, 351 

strikes him dead, in fair, 12 

thunders will not break their rest, 
35 

who shall have borne the, 337 
Battle-flags were furled, and the, 433 
Battle-ground the free broad field of 

thought, 403 
Battlements, not high raised, 385 

sheer o'er the crystal, 122 
Battle 's lost and won, when the, 257 

to fight, though a, 78 
Battles, 19 

on her side, and he who, 199 

won, they tell his, 433 
Battle-sword, swing the, 151 
Battling Irishman, the rattling, 194 
Bauble still, pleased with this, 49 
Bay, decked his brows instead of, 282 

deep-mouthed welcome, 438 

in some near port or, 73 

of Biscay, in the, 26 

on the Bolivar south across the, 60 

out across the, 215 

outer China 'crost the, 252 

the broad, and the rapid river, 437 

the moon, 36 

toward me o'er the, 315 

threshed the Bolivar out across the, 
54 
Bayonet clashing, seen the claymore 

with, 431 
Bayou, up the narrow, muddy, 437 
Bays, deck thee with all, 124 

and broad-armed ports, not, 385 
Bay-tides rise and fall, and her, 32 
Be, 19 

not so to me, if she, 201 

the best is yet to, 24 

the Christ that is to, 5 1 

to, contents his natural desire, 176 

without body, 76 

with us yet, 139 



Be 

wi' you, God, 156 
Beach, go stand upon the, 135 

I _ wandered, here about the, 352 

night sank upon the dusky, in 
Beacon peerless, holdin' up a, 290 
Beacon-blaze allures the bird of 

passage, 25 
Beadroll, on Fame's eternal, 47 
Beads and prayer-books, 49 

to tell his, 1 45 
Beak, 19 

with unbloodied, 41 
Beaker, no playmate shares my, 146 

up, fill every, 445 
Beam, a light about to, 225 

at the full midday, 277 

from the solar, 101 

of milder, calmer, 236 

of the day 's last, 429 

on the moon 's pale, 450 
Beams, candle throws his, 42 

display, let my sun his, 408 
Bear, 19 

another's misfortunes, who could 
not, 265 

an untried pain, to, 436 

authority be a stubborn, 158 

away the belle, will, 458 

bush supposed a, 128 

gave pain to the, 321 

him best, which doth, 213 

his comment, every nice offence 
should, 289 

his courage up, whistling aloud to, 
440 

his friend 's infirmities, 145 

how much the heart can, 173 

it at first, one can, 31 

it that the opposed may beware, 
322 

it, to pardon or to, 405 

it with an honest heart, 150 

melancholy as ... a lugged, 258 

or lion, a, 56 

out the deed, hope your warrant 
will, 433 

the brunt, 78 

the flying-chariot, 386 

the gree, 38 

them, we get them, 311 

the rugged Russian, 72 

those ills we have, 79 

to see a, 393 

up and steer right onward, 387 
Bear-baiting, the Puritans hated, 321 
Beard, a hair more, or a hair less, in 
his, 322 

and wiped his yellow, 181 

neglected, a, 239 

of formal cut, 199 

plucks dead lions by the, 423 

the lion in his den, 85 
Bearded like the pard, 373 
Beards unmown, and, 34s 

wag all, when, 261 



Index 



495 



Bearing heavy evidence against us, 
in, 450 

the intent of, 13 
Bearings of this observation, the, 287 
Bears and lions, let, 95 

another, 355 

calamity, he that nobly, 422 

down truth, appear that malice, 247 

no fruit, the tree that, 147 

not alive so stout a gentleman, 381 

unfeeling, 259 

us along, strongly it, 288 
Beast, 20 

are but beast, bird, man, 316 

both man and bird and, 313 

I cotched a vild, 200 

inflicted on a, 390 

lived, while the, 226 
Beastly fury, in that, 101 
Beasts by his body, of kin to the, 248 

most graze, when, 393 

the birds, the, 345 

to know their friends, nature 
teaches, 278 
Beat as one, two hearts that, 224 

down the gate, as he would, 206 

his music out, 97 

his pate four days, I will, 216 

me, the more you, 378 

the ground, knit hands and, 409 

your pate and fancy wit will come, 
447 
Beaten, 20 

hymn of the, 61 

may be said, he that is, 184 

out of season, any man thus, 441 

out of them, the dear breath, 35 
Beatified, sings like a soul, 210 
Beating funeral marches, are, 163 

it in upon his weary brain, 400 

mend his pace with, 33 

of my own heart, the, 173 
Beats and blows his numbing hands, 
207 

upon a throne, that fierce light 
which, 404 

with weary wing, 340 
Beau, every Miss but me has got a, 

290 
Beauteous eye, seek the, 152 

looks, not their, 201 
Beauties, more admire by far thy 
naked, 408 

of the North, pale unripened, 284 
Beautiful, 20 

and both were young and one was, 
469 

and gallant craft, 66 

and therefore to be wooed, she 's, 
453 

my dreams were always, 98 

the, the pure, the bright, 88 
Beautifully less, fine by degrees and, 

r, I3t 
Beauty, 20, 21 
a land of, 65 



Beatify 

and all that, 163 

and mystery of the ships, 360 

and rustic health, simple, 172 

and Scotch, 352 

as could die, as much, 427 

bless, one brief gleam of, 230 

bright, when, 236 

could I come near your, 59 

draws us with a single hair. 168 

grew, the conscious stone to, 39 

her, and her chivalry, 334 

I should take her, 443 

Isle of, 1 

limb nor, 336 

nor saw the, 145 

nothing but bowls and, 308 

of fresh, 233 

of the lilies, in the, 225 

of the sun, shows all the, 240 

of youth and love and, 204 

reigns, nature in all the pomp of, 
217 

save, modest truth and, 449 

she walks in, 430 

teaches such, 118 

that life was, 104 

this world is full of, 462 

thy more than, 236 

till then her, 443 

was far beyond, her, 149 

was my vision, whose, 274 

what once had, 334 
Beauty's chain, and, 233 

flowery crown, and, 354 
Became him like the leaving it, 223 
Beckon to me, over the river they, 339 
Beckoned him, hands that madly, 321 

smiling sweet, 194 

to the people, he, 419 
Beckons me away, which, 428 
Becks and wreathed smiles, 196 
Become a fool and jester, 137 

a man, all that may, 72 

her, it doth so well, 20 

of him, nor do I know what is, 310 

that lion's robe, well did he, 226 

them with one half so good a grace, 
260 
Becomes the throned monarch, it, 260 
Becoming mirth, within the limit of, 

196 
Bed, 2i 

and sickened and went to her, 326 

and went to, 123 

and with the lark to, 210 

are the weans in their, 443 

but in their briny, 438 

by night, a, 295 

divorced old barren Reason from 
my, 426 

go sober, he that will to, 372 

lamp and gone to, 108 

lies in his, 165 

my grave is like to be my wedding, 
254 



496 



Index 



Bed 

now, or up in my, 68 

of fiery rich array, change his, 8 

of honour lain, be in the, 184 

of pain, on the thorny, 293 

of straw, a, 207 

of the grave, for its last, 375 

of time, becomes a, 151 

one heart, one, 174 

that lighted me to, 167 

then went to, 371 

the world, when to, 386 

to call him from his warm, 210 

together, are under the, 361 

when by my, 283 

who quitt'st thy narrow, 115 
Bedclothes, 21 
Bedfellows, 21 

Beds, while folks are in their, 44 
Bedside, a frail young creature at 

one's, 423 
Bee, 21 

had stung it newly, some, 226 

in a hive, with one, 184 

of her honey, rob the, 133 
Beechen tree, spare the, 457 
Beech-tree, the woodpecker tapping 

the hollow, 45 7 
Beef, 22 

and ale, nor wanted they gude, 267 

and riot, very fond of, 249 
Beefsteak, I like a, no 
Beelzebub lurks, says that, 226 
Beelzebub 's black rod, ushers of, 347 
Been, my dear where have you, 68 

thou art no more as thou hast,~ 
342 
Beer, 22 

a cask of good old, 57 

and chronicle small, 138 

a parson much bemused in, 295 

in a pot of, 310 

in the barrel, there's, 254 

no objection to a pot of, no 

to drink small, 130 

undrawn, and, 345 
Beer-barrel, might they not stop a, 

421 
Bees and such like hums, 151 

no butterflies, no, 285 

where wasps instead of, 330 
Beetle, 22 

that we tread upon, 80 
Beeves, and driven the, 267 
Befall, thus it shall, 452 
Befell, at forty-odd, 22 
Before, around, behind, 190 

me, even as behind, 154 

not dead but gone, 158 
Beforehand, the circumlocution office 

was, 54 
Beg a cheese, would, 92 

when he might earn, or, 248 
Began best, that what, 159 

ere England's griefs, 166 

where faith, law, morals, all, 269 



Beggar, 22 

and banker, 21 

at Hallowmas, like a, 239 

he prepares to plunge, 93 

is taxed, 176 

that is dumb, a, 364 

thou, no, 126 

' you big black boundin', 147 
Beggarly account of empty boxes, 33 
Beggars, 22 

worse in kings than, 122 
Beggary, no vice but, 22 

in the love, there 's, 237 
Begged his bread, the living Homer, 

183 
Begin it, I'll, 124 

it with weak straws, 131 

sees some task, 410 

to think, at which he can, 210 
Beginning, a kiss at love 's, 203 

as it was in the, 289 

build sure in the, 39 

great is the art of, 109 

no great love in the, 238 

of a higher life, 79 

of the world, from the, 253 

of our end, 109 
Begins and ends in, what all, 411 

at home, sense like charity, 356 

man 's general infancy, then ...,318 

where law ends, tyranny, 419 

within himself, when the fight, 130 
Begot, by whom, 334 

how, 124 

in the ventricle of memory, 258 

of nothing but, 99 

upon itself, 195 
Beguile, the lips may, 398 
Beguiled, expectation every day, 92 
Begun, antiquity appears to have, 10 

freedom 's battle once, 142 
Behaviour, check on loose, 108 

of the visage, dejected, 448 
Behind, before, around, 190 

even as, 154 

one must ride, 337 
Behold a cat, mad if they, 304 

bright Phoebus in his strength, 316 

her, to, 108 

shall be turned to, 420 
Being frantic and unquiet, a, 249 

man is a moral accountable, 249 

strongly framed, a, 189 

this intellectual, 90 

this pleasing, anxious, 139 
Belfries rock and reel, how the, 23 
Belfry, sits the white owl in the, 292 

the bell that swings in its, 464 
Belgium's capital, and,. 334 
Belgrade, boldly by battery besieged, 

14 
Belial 's trusty sword, that, 39s 
Belie all corners of the world, and 

doth, 368 
Belied him, malice that, 122 

our fears, hopes, 105 



Index 



497 



Belief, as when 't is in a wrong, 287 

in whom persuasion and, 121 

trembling doubt and certain-sure, 
234 
Believe a woman or an epitaph, 67 

but what themselves, 376 

he did, 219 

in princerple, I don't, 193 

me, the deuce gae wi'm to, 459 

not what the landsmen say, 347 

of heaven, all that we, 452 

promise, hope, 124 

that in all ages, 156 

thee, and I'll, 394 

they talked of me, I, 396 
Believed, I long, 92 

these juggling fiends no more, 318 
Believes a God, by night an atheist 
half, 14 

his own, yet each, 434 
Believing old signs, there is no, 239 
Bell, 22, 23 

ding, dong, 124 

go fetch me a, 22 

heart as sound as a, 174 

in a cowslip 's, 21 

invites me, the, 205 

mock the midnight, 33 

slow falling to the prompter's, 70 

struck in the night, I hear the, 200 

that swings in its belfry, the, 464 

they've hushed the minster, 264 

tolls out, the minster, 264 

twilight and evening, 18 
Belle, she was not the ball-room 's, 296 

will bear away the, 458 
Belles had faults to hide, if, 128 
Bellows blows up sin, 134 

I blow the, 386 

'thout them to blow the, 156 
Bells, 23 

and all, 133 

and merrily rang the, 43 7 

brazen, 5 

from hill to hill, 52 

golden, 437 

hear the loud alarum, 5 

hear the tolling of the, 410 

how sweet the sounds of village, 5 2 

I hear, the, 43 

iron, 410 

jangled, like sweet, 327 

jingling and the tinkling of the, 408 

of these convent, 222 

of Yule, the merry, 470 

soft the music of those village, 52 

that so musically wells from the, 
408 

the dead leaf trembles to the, 27s 

the sound of cheerful, 52 
Belly, 24 

God send thee good ale enough, 6 

in fair round, 199 
Bellyful of fighting, his, 131 
Belongs, to each other, 441 

to thee, the unwritten only still, 465 



Beloved by heaven, 65 

from pole to pole, 369 

one, if anguish, 10 

sleep, God still giveth his, 369 
Below or else above you, 240 
Bemused in beer, a parson much, 295 
Ben Bolt, don't you remember, 29 
Bench, great on the, 164 
Bend a knotted oak, or, 272 

of two souls, one must, 378 

our conscience to our dealing, 386 
Bending forward, and, 345 

staff, I would not break a, 120 
Bends over all, the blue sky, 348 

the gallant mast, and, 359 
Benedick, the married man, 254 
Benediction, and brought a, 415 

and come like the, 374 
Benefit of the people, for the, 289 
Benefits, 24 

upon the wave, write our, 467 
Benison, 24 

and breathes a, 157 

or ban, heaven's, 328 
Bent in heaven, a silver bow new, 268 

just as the twig is, 107 

like us, beneath the load, 370 

they fool me to the top of my, 137 
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, 

142 
Bereft me of all words, you have, 459 
Berkeley said there was no matter, 

256 
Berries, two lovely, 224 
Berry, could have made a better, 10 

that 's as brown as a, 246 
Berth, which happened in his, 22 
Beseems, more fat than bard, 18 
Beset the road, 365 
Besieged Belgrade, 14 
Best, 24 

among us, the, 450 

and hold fast the, 320 

blood that hath most iron, 27 

can bear reproof, those, 332 

coat, a hole made in your, 57 

contentment has, the noblest mind 
the, 62 

friend, his own, 249 

he prayeth, 314 

if an endless sleep he wills, so, 369 

is he, the, 248 

is like the worst, where the, 392 

king, fellow with the,' 130 

married that dies married young, 
254 

men, men of few words are the, 259 

of all ways to lengthen our days, 74 

of rest is sleep, 80 

old friends are, 146 

portion of a good man's life, 201 

that what began, 159 

that what God doth is, 374 

the, the first, the last, 434 

the greatest, worst and, 147 

then is sure the, 376 



498 



Index 



Best 

the worst turns the, 78 

to die, 't is, 89 

to weigh, 't is, 84 

who loves another, 243 
Bestial, and what remains is, 332 
Best-laid schemes o' mice and men, 

the, 261 
Bestow, the world has nothing to, 182 
Bestowed, know'st if best, 35 
Bestows on me, as of her tongue she 

oft, 412 
Bestride the world like a colossus, 58 
Bet, a saving, 247 
Beteem the winds of heaven, he 

might not, 243 
Betides, whate'er, 328 
Betime, we rise, 40 
Betimes, 24 
Betoken love, 233 
Betray, that men, 136 
Betrayed for gold, 15 

by nothing is so well, 150 

humanity, 188 

the Capitol, who was 't, 452 
Betsey and I are out, 292 
Better and grander, something, 190 

a thousand times told, 203 

but given unsought is, 240 

by their presence, 50 

cheer ere you depart, 48 

days, looked on, 23 

days, we have seen, 74 

fifty years of Europe, 45 

foot before, the, 171 

for ane I'll get, 329 

half, my, 168 

how can man die, 89 

is in some degree, 54 

land, I hear thee speak of the, 209 

made, the good are, 191 

man, I could have better spared a, 
250 

no, and no worse, 80 

off than somebody else, we are, 401 

part of valour is discretion, 423 

reason, appear the, 122 

reckoned, 't is no, 158 

some, and some worse, 316 

spared a better man, I could have, 
250 

than he knew, builded, 39 

than his dog, something, 297 

than she had known, for something, 
446 

than well, all shall be, 74 

the excess, 28 

the instruction, but I will, 197 

the more than less, 28 

. . . the right way to go, 159 

to have loved and lost, 242 

to sink, 28 

world, there is another and a, 461 

world than this, hereafter in a, 462 
Better-furnished gown, a, 161 
Betters always have their will, 66 



Betty, give this cheek, 75 
Between the dragon and his wrath, 98 
Beverage to the swelling deep, 101 
Beware, 24 

my fangs, 95 

my lord, of jealousy, 195 

my sting, if I be waspish, best, 434 

of desperate steps, 86 

of entrance to a quarrel, 322 

of his echoing growl, 226 

of that man, 302 

of thee, that the opposed may, 322 

the ides of March, 190 
Bewared, once warned is well, 205 
Bewitch me, do more, 364 
Bewrays more woe, silence in love, 364 
Bias, against his sinful, 247 

its various, 172 
Bible, 24 

underneath the rose my, 413 

with his ledger, binding up his, 247 

words, Satan uses, 353 
Bibles lie, or your, 365 
Bid defiance to all the force of the 
crown, 44 

the main flood, 135 

time return, 468 

you, if the devil, 156 
Bidding some giant yield, 409 
Bier, 24 

on murdered Lincoln's, 225 

to wave, over his, 184 

what ye lift upon the, 375 
Bigger than the moon, no, 63 
Bilbao bar, 'cross, 115 
Bile, 24 
Bilious, 25 

Bill discounters, money-brokers and, 
193 

the weekly, 94 

to you, God '11 send the, 156 

when you were, 230 
Billiards, 25 

Billings of Louisville, Mr., 346 
Billows and the depths have more, 
354 

and trusted to thy, 288 

in a sea of glory, the, 353 

in swelling and limitless, 288 

never break, where, 89 

on the shore, roar of the, 19 

proud, rode in his shroud the, 332 

roll, the, 245 
Bills, virtue suffering from protested, 

269 
Bind, in body and in soul can, 237 

it, no chains can, 262 

fast find, 126 

men down, which, 122 

up my wounds, 187 

up the nation's wounds, to, 337 
Bird, 25 

and beast, both man and, 313 

as storm-tossed, 340 

beast, are but beast, bird, man, 316 

comes abroad, every foul, 332 



Index 



499 



Bird 

curseth the warning, 319 
in vain in the sight of the, 280 
not reckoned a religious, 32 
of time has but a little way to 
flutter, 406 

magic sleep, comfortable, 369 
on every tree, there sits a, 254 
was dead, how the, 41 

Birdie, 25 

Birds begin to sing, and, 343 

best peck, 393 

betray, we the, 168 

1 love the song of, 23s 

in last year's nest, no, 280 

no leaves, no, 285 

the, the beasts, 345 

the young, are chirping in the nest, 

htrnaii 2 5 
Birth, 25 

and at my, 277 

a pride of, 316 

are kindred and allied by, 201 

await this body's, 377 

at his, 283 

border nor breed nor, 391 

bring her children to second, 353 

but upheld by, 410 

cursed its hour of, 416 

excuses for his, 230 

is nothing but our death begun, 81 

not on his humble, 257 

of Christ, near the, 52 

of each new era, 115 

of freedom, shall have a new, 276 

of our new soil, new, 8 

the nation's later, 276 
Birthdays, 25 
Birth-pangs, the time is racked with, 

416 
Birthplace of our fathers, the, in 
Birthright, 25 

Birthrights proudly, bearing their, 141 
Biscay, 26 

Bishop, a church without a, 59 
Bishops took a simpler way, the good 

old, 416 
Bit me, though he had, 95 

of their champ on the, 387 

the man, went mad and, 95 
Bite, 26 

delight to bark and, 95 

his nails, when you see Ned Cuttle, 
273 

1 pray you, 216 

'm, smaller still to, 134 

so nigh, thou dost not, 24 

sorrow hath less power to, 373 

the man recovered of the, 93 

the man that mocks at it, 375 

this fish will, 16 

your thumb at us, do you, 404 
Biter bit, to see a, 447 
Bits make rich the ribs, dainty, 298 

of stone, he played with for, 378 



Bitter a thing it is, 170 

cold, 't is, 57 

death must be, then, 241 

experience is , 117 

fancy, sweet and, 124 

indeed, experience is, 117 

love thou art, 241 

make my own less, 1 

sky, freeze thou, 24 

sure the most, 195 
Bitterer than a thousand years of 

fire, 83 
Bitterest loss, ours is the, 1 
Bitterness of life, to all the, 390 
Bivouac, 26 
Black as the pit, 376 

dress, a, or a white dress, 29s 

dwells in white and, 3 

eye, the bright, 117 

eye, white wench's, 118 

not, nor yet too light, 133 

pinch him, 304 

rod, ushers of Beelzebub's, 347 

suits of solemn, 448 

to red began to turn, from, 269 

was white, affirmed that, 66 

we call it, 48 
Blackberries, reasons were as plenti- 
ful as, 327 
Blackbird 't is to whistle, than to a, 

165 
Blackest of lies, is ever the, 219 
Blackguards, 26 

too, nor we aren't no, 349 
Black-jack, 26 
Black-leg saint, a, 247 
Blackness of darkness, 313 

of night, all is for these but the, 207 
Bladders, boys that swim on, 133 
Blade, 26 

at that shade-made, 113 

fragment of his, 47 
Blades, between two, 213 

of grass, two, 162 
Blaize, 26 
Blame, a necessary act incurs no, 279 

as is the, 232 

in part she is to, 427 

dreading praise not, 8 

on the 'other's, or a-passin', 314 

that none might doubt or, 274 

yet not afraid to, 46 
Blamed and protested, he, 353 

the babby, some, 348 
Blameless, 26 

for thy sake, 104 
Blanch an African, to, 266 

and Sweet-heart, Tray, 95 
Bland, their juices rich and, 175 

the smile that was childlike and, 
37i 
Blandishments of life are gone, 66 
Blank, 26 

verse, prose poets like, 424 
Blaspheme custard through the nose, 
322 



500 



Index 



Blaspheme the twisted tendril, 69 
Blasphemy, is flat, 43 

shrink not from, 67 
Blast, I cut them down with my, 284 

like a rushing, 151 

of a life, in the, 314 

of that dread horn, 39 

spread his wings on the, 77 

threescore years and ten, keeps in, 
28 

upon his bugle-horn, one, 39 
Blasts denote, and the, 78 
Blaze, burst out into sudden, 123 

can but, 123 

of noon, not the, 4 
Blazed the helmet of Navarre, 179 
Blazon, but this eternal, 381 
Blazoned on the panes, the prophets, 
291 

on the stately tomb, 264 
Bleach, he helped to, 266 
Bleat for the lamb, made the ewe, 448 
Bleating in the meadows, the young 

lambs are, 469 
Bleed, do we not, 197 
Bleeding and aching in the potter 's 
hand, clay, 107 

fresh, dead and, 41 
Blenches first, foul fall him that, 214 
Blend, how sweetly those conditions, 
242 

shall, shall change, 78 
Blent, in one red burial, 40 
Bless heaven, see this and, 50 

it and approve it, will, 330 

one brief gleam of beauty, 230 

the turf that wraps their clay, 34 

to curse, to, 157 
Blessed, 27 

always to be, 186 

be he who took and gave, 164 

feet, walked those, 67 

is he who has found his work, 459 

once, what God, 159 

part to heaven, his, 185 

the memory of the just is, 199 

with perfect rest, heaven is, 409 

with temper, 400 

with the soft phrase of peace, 380 

yea thrice, 266 
Blessedness, let him ask no other, 459 
Blesseth him that gives, it, 260 
Blessing, and with her, 283 

dear, 't is expectation makes a, 117 

her, praying for her, 243 

my, not my doom, 459 

of earth is toil, but the, 409 

prayed for a, 313 

thee, the power of, 27 

thrift is a, 404 

we should use it, a, 69 
Blessings, 27 

are a treasure, 16 

ever wait on virtuous deeds, 427 

on your frosty pow, 311 

they say barnes are, 16 



Blest be the man, 29 

by all their country's wishes, 34 

I have been, 233 

in the mansions of the, 221 

it is twice, 260 

too, if it tells me, 116 

too, is he who can divine, 337 
Blew, four-square to all the winds 
that, 413 

free ere the spirit passed, 284 

it, and it rained, 389 

our banner of England, 112 

out the light within this brain, 19s 

the fire that burns ye, 131 

you hither, what wind, 444 
Blight, come like a, 362 

ere sin could, 77 

in its bloom, wha'd, 364 
Blighted love shall never blow, 233 

the root may not be, 149 
Blighting was nearest, when, 326 
Blind, 27 

and wailing and alone, 15 

be a little, nay intensely, 201 

because love is, 240 

be to her faults a little, 201 

bow-boy's butt-shaft, 118 

love is, 243 

to him, the olives they were not, 
458 

to light, 70 

winged Cupid painted, 69 
Blindly, had we never loved sae, 37 
Blind-worm 's sting, 179 
Blink the peccadilloes of all Picca- 
dilly, 367 
Bliss, 27 

below, virtue only makes our, 250 

called me thy angel in moments of, 
9 

exceeds all earthly, 262 

has a price for its, 253 

if ignorance be indeed a, 370 

must gain, we every, 448 

of dying, the, 105 

or woe, mine never shall be parted, 
139 

or woe, one common, 409 

that such a dream should be, 293 

to make grief, 436 

what is the greatest, 457 

where ignorance is, 190 
Blisses, her lip so rich in, 204 

in the midst of my, 205 
Blithe, and debonair, buxom, 41 

and gay, were, 265 

as she 's bonnie, 364 
Block those wheels, will nobody, 403 
Blocked up the pass, 76 
Blockhead, the bookful, 30 
Blocks, 27 
Blood, 27 

alone could quell, the vengeance, 
423 

and drop my, 267 

and the quick round of, 220 



Index 



501 



Blood 

and virtue contend for empire, 25 

are cold in, 233 

a very river of sluggish, 133 

be the price of admiralty, if, 113 

build factories with, 413 

burns, when the, 429 

but taste his, 18 

devise laws for the, 33 

drenched ... in fraternal, 420 

drop of Christian, 134 

enriched our, 22 

every drop of, 199 

false pride in place and, 54 

fire i' the, 70 

for blood atone, 15 

for his country, to shed his, 383 

for wine, who drinks hot, 301 

freeze thy young, 380 

from your veins, better to lose a 
pint of, 280 

guiltless of his country's, 168 

hot and rebelious liquors in my, 
357 

I 'm sick of, 363 

is cold, thy, 29 

is liquid flame, my, 423 

is warm within, whose, 264 

must have its course, lad, young, 
469 

of all the Howards, 113 

on the game, there's, 148 

on your new foreign shrubs, there 's, 
148 

perish through excess of, 447 

rose in, 142 

run chill, it makes my, 282 

simple faith than Norman, 148 

so cheap, flesh and, 78 

splashes upward, our, 413 

sucks and drains a people's, 64 

taints of, 160 

that she has spilt, in the, 342 

the Douglas, 4 

their liquor is, 379 

thicker than itself with brother's, 
169 

through red, the war-horse dashing, 
43i 

where civil, 54 
Blood-avenging, 28 
Bloodless lay the untrodden snow, all, 

225 
Blood 's lava, and the, 204 
Bloodshed, weary of your wars and, 

433 
Bloody Mary, now of a, 157 

my head is, 28 

sun at noon, 63 
Bloom, in their, 252 

in the skies may, 377 

like a rose, till she, 226 

new hope may, 236 

on its fadeless, 209 

wha'd blight in its, 364 

with all the mimicry of, 64 



Blooming alone, left, 342 

old rag over'ead, to the, 112 
Blooms a rose, 105 

Blossom as the rose, the wilderness 
shall, 443 

in their dust, smell sweet and, 199 

one, on a brier, 462 

that hangs on the bough, ai 

there, and bade it, 77 
Blossoms fall, the, 154 

of my sin, even in the, 370 

to-morrow, 164 
Blot, creation's, 26 

it, can burn or, 155 

the record out, to, 449 
Blotted it out forever, and, 287 
Blow a bubble, propose to, 38 

a flower about to, 225 

and the stormy winds do, 19 

and a word and a, 458 

a signal, a shining mark, 81 

blighted love shall never, 233 

bugle, blow, 382 

but give the cock a, 283 

by th', 20 

given, though there be no, 430 

his wreathed horn, Triton, 293 

let the pealing organ, 291 

may the winds, 400 

on whom I please, to, 217 

out fire and all, 132 

out your brains, and, 373 

own genius gave the final, 106 

perhaps may turn his, 145 

prevent the long aimed, 385 

strike another, 130 

that made all England tremble, 87 

the bellerses, 'thout them to, 156 

the bellows, I, 386 

them at the moon, no 

themselves must strike the, 29 

thou winter wind, 444 

't is Pallas gives this deadly, 294 

up the infernal machine, 403 

wind! come, wrack, 90 
Blowing, a strong nor'wester's, 285 

toward the west, the young flowers 
are, 469 
Blown, flower that once has, 135 

overboard, the mast be now, 231 

was ever feather so lightly, 271 

with restless violence, 90 
Blows, and after, 458 

and buffets of the world, vile, 328 

and knocks, by apostolic, 329 

his nail, 190 

his numbing hands, 207 

no man to good, not the ill wind 
which, 444 

of a lumberer, like the, 3 14 

of sound, comes to heal the, 364 

soft the zephyr, 470 

the wind that profits nobody, ill, 
444 

up sin, bellows, 134 
Bludgeonings, 28 



502 



Index 



Blue, 28 

a feather of the, 403 

and drowned in yonder living, 457 

and his breeches were, 87 

darkly, deeply, beautifully, 288 

for you I wear the, 456 

pinch him, 304 

the, the fresh, the ever free, 354 

the melting, 117 
Bluffed the eternal sea, 115 
Blunder, 28 

free us, it wad frae monie a, 35 S 

guilt 's, 336 
Blundered, some one had, 90 
Blunders are all out, when I hope his, 
284 

one of nature's agreeable, 450 
Blunt, 28 

Blunted, for fear it should get, 446 
Blush of woman 's pride, the con- 
scious, 409 

she looked down to, 371 

to find it fame, 123 

to give it in, and, 287 

to make man, 434 

unseen, born to, 149 
Blushed and oft did say, laughed and, 
306 

as he gave it in, 287 

saw its God and, 43 s 

with wine, 100 
Blushes, 28 
Blushing honours, bears his, 164 

to a brook, dogrose, 95 
Board, against a, 208 

allots thee for thy, 182 

and seat me at his, 365 

he steps on, 102 

of grave responsible directors, 92 
Boards did shrink, and all the, 43s 

ships are but, 359 
Boast of heraldry, 163 

all earthly pomp and, 228 

his wit, to, 304 

of this, 156 

of this I can, 113 

such is the patriot's, 182 
Boasted powers, tarnish all your, 58 
Boasts two soul-sides, 243 
Boat, 28 

embarked upon that little, 1 73 
Boatman, take O, 38 1_ 
Boats, fortune brings in some, 141 

little, shotild keep near shore, 424 

't is lucky for the, 244 
Bobbed for whale, and, 439 
Bobbing, to bed the world are, 386 
Bode, what should that, 239 
Bodies, 28 

forth, as imagination, 308 

in one frame agree, while souls and, 
378 

perish through excess of blood, as, 
447 

soft and weak and smooth, why are 
our, 456 



Bodies 

with two seeming, 224 
Bodkin, with a bare, 323 
Body, 28 

and in soul can bind, in, 237 

and soul, like peevish man and 
wife, 376 

and soul must part, 376 

be, they winna let a, 455 

born, ere yet my, 377 

did contain the spirit, this, 381 

flexible and limber, his, 249 

follow, make the, 142 

forme doth take, the, 377 

his soul and, 273 

I '11 prove it on his, 320 

is wholesome for the, 269 

kiss a body, gin a, 203 

knew so young a, 171 

love is a, 232 

make, and doth the, 377 

may confine, the, 262 

meet a body, gin a, 203 

mind or moral nature, 425 

of kin to the beasts by his, 248 

pent, here in the, 278 

pine, though the, 263 

to be without, 76 
Body's death, with that, 377 

growth, for with my, 377 

work's expired, when, 21 
Boil and bubble, hell-broth, 179 

... an egg, the vulgar, 108 

in endless torture, and, 436 
Bold, 28, 29 

dare not be so, 120 

I can meet, 145 

one, aye and a, 251 

quick, ingenious, 33 

stern looks, with, 119 
Bolder thought can rise, what, 411 
Boldly by battery, 14 

let's kill him, 201 
Bolivar out across the Bay, threshed 
the, 54 

out we took the, 215 

south across the Bay, on the, 60 
Bolt, 29 

a fool 's, 137 

till famine drew the, no 
Bolts and locks, when banks dis- 
pense with, 216 

and massive, 262 

of heaven, and louder than the, 13 

to throw, presumethy, 71 
Bombs bursting in air, 17 
Bond, 29 _ 

at suspicion of a, 233 

forfeit of my, 83 

here appeareth due upon the, 213 

I '11 seal to such a, 197 

I would have my, 103 

marvel that they make men, 45s 

merely justice and his, 199 

of brotherhood, natural, 38 

of fate, take a, 14 



Index 



503 



Bond 

of love, the very, 240 

take then thy, 134 

the angel Death did sign, the, 356 
Bondage and resistance death, sub- 
mission, 391 

of the tomb, the mortal, 353 
Bondman, 29 

checked like a, 15 
Bands, 29 

cancels all, 82 

of shame, and break thy, 358 
Bondsman 's two hundred and fifty 

years, 199 
Bondsmen, 29 
Bone and a hank of hair, a, 136 

if he flings it a, 461 

of my bone, 134 

that phantom of grisly, 78 
Bones, 29 

a town of monks and, 387 

are laid, the warrior 's, 264 

with aches, fill thy, 2 

interred with their, 116 

of the English, because on the, 113 

on the brittle strength of, 381 

rattle his, over the stones, 298 

sharp misery had worn Kim to the, 
264 

thy roots are wrapped about the, 
468 

world shall see his, 15 
Bonnet, 30 

is trimming, while the, 211 

unbanded, your, 239 
Booby for another, who'd give her. 

270 
Book, 30 

and volume of my brain, the, 33 1 

been gilded, the world 's, 207 

and candle, bell, 22 

go fetch me a, 22 

he read aloud the, 280 

of fate, hides the, 127 

of fate, read the, 127 

of follies, of such a, 449 

of nature getteth short of leaves, 
216 

of time, in the, 142 

of verses, a, 8s 

that fashioned others, 263 
Bookful, 30 

Bookish theoric, the, 401 
Book-learned, 30 
Books, 30, 31 

all saws of, 331 

amid the dust of, 416 

and music, with, 101 

as schoolboys from their, 239 

dead he lay among his, 75 

had they, or, 220 

hath thy toil o'er, 215 

in running brooks, 3 

my only, 118 

not such as, 445 

old, old wine, 290 



Books 

our forefathers had no other, 317 

poring over miserable, 350 

their own faults', 119 

they are the, 118 

too much, read as well as, 259 

we may live without, 63 
Bookseller 's hack, who once was a, 

168 
Boot and horse, lad, then hey for, 469 

pitched into with a, 44 

tapping a glossy, 384 
Booth, can set up a small, 67 
Boots are green, whiles your, 96 

it at one gate, 84 

like new, 161 

your little shoes and my big, 361 
Booty, the lust of, 171 
Bo-peep, as if they started at, 129 
Border, let that aye be your, 1S4 

nor breed nor birth, 391 
Bore, 31 

arms, first that ever, 150 

him off the field, 138 

in vain, against her, 111 

it not about, and therefore, 446 

without abuse, he, 150 
Boreas, cease, rude, 346 
Bores, 31 
Born and die, are but, 351 

a twin, one of us, 418 

every moment one is, 69 

for liberty, proclaims that man 
was, 217 

great, some are, 164 

in Dublin, the editor was, 294 

in the garret, 148 

I 've been, 21 

natural to die as to be, 88 

on Christmas Day, was, 51 

on itself, 195 

so, men are to be,. 10 

the house where I was, 330 

though yourself had never been, 
277 

to be hanged, 169 

to write, 107 

't was the ninth he was, 348 

under a rhyming planet, not, 336 

with, that thou wast, 137 
Borne down by the flying, 83 

me on his back, he hath, 468 

my breath away, had, 331 

on thy breast to be, 288 

so ill is, 195 
Borrow its mirth, earth must, 212 
Borrowed, squandered, doled, stolen, 

„ I57 
Borrower, 31 

Borrowing dulls the edge of husband- 
ry, 31 

who goeth a, 31 
Bosom, 31 

and one truth, one, 174 

and wring his, 136 

cannot char, my, 339 



5°4 



Index 



Bosom 

carry it round in your, 64 

cleanse the stuffed, 263 

hidden in a mother 's, 129 

lifeless head to her, 109 

in an aged, 60 

of kings, that stir not the, 410 

of the north, the frozen, 444 

lodge, that in her, 270 

of darkness, so from the, 138 

of God, her seat is the, 212 

of snow, and the, 246 

of snow, the maid with a, 246 

of the earth, 164 

that slumber in its, 74 

thought that perhaps in its, 163 

was fretting, her stately, 316 

with a glory in his, 225 
Bosoms, home to men 's business and, 
40 

two, and one troth, 174 
Boston, 31, 32 

man, pry that out of a, 188 

State-House is the hub, 188 
Both sides, dough on, 41 

were young and one was beautiful, 
469 

young and one how passing fair, 469 
Both-sides rogue, damnable, 341 
Bottle, 32 

comes out of a narrow-mouthed, 
383 

of Burgundy, with a, 360 

to give him, nor a, 285 
Bottom, must stand upon its own, 
418 

of a well, in the, 418 

of the sea, in the, 102 

stir, from the, 178 

trusted, my ventures are not in one, 
424 
Bottomless pit, underneath the, 178 
Bough, blossom that hangs on the, 21 

there grows a flower on every, 203 

touch not a single, 457 

underneath the, 85 
Boughs unite, where the fragrant 

limes their, 296 
Bought, all things are, 369 

and sold, hoarded, bartered, 157 

and sold, is, 27 

dear by knowing ill, 414 

golden opinions, I have, 290 

judges and senates have been, 158 

nor sold, the manhood never, 185 
Bouillabaisse, 32 

Bound beneath me as a steed, and the 
waves, 436 

by a solemn oath, but that he was, 

fast in one, two lives, 224 

heaven is not reached at a single, 

208 
I'll clear at a single, 152 
in to saucy doubts, 41 
of life, nearer the, 278 



Bound so fairly, 30 

thy goodness let me, 463 

to do, a man is, 105 

was too small a, 381 

who can be, 287 
Boundaries, lengthens its, 437 
Boundary between the things mis- 
named, 369 
Bounding, to the shore gallantly, 436 
Boundless his wealth, 65 
Bounds divide, thin partitions do 
their, 245 

of modesty, not stepping o'er the, 
266 
Bounteous beauteous earth, enjoy 

this, 196 
Bounty, 32 

is as boundless as the sea, 239 

judgment guide his, 84 

those his former, 86 
Bourbon or Nassau go higher, can, 

3i7 
Bourgeons every maze of quick, 372 
Bourn, from whose, 79 
Bout, with many a winding, 394 
Bow before the awful will, 150 

he that has two strings to his, 390 

I had two strings to my, 390 

new bent in heaven, a silver, 268 

to have two strings unto your, 390 

to that whose course is run, I, 392 
Bow-boy's butt-shaft, 118 
Bowed, 32 

by the weight of centuries he leans, 
180 

her own, meekly she, 109 

himself down, 313 
Bowels of the deep, into the fatal, 346 
Bower, dwelt no joy in Eden 's rosy, 
450 

mirth in your, 125 

wandering near her secret, 292 
Bowl, 32 

curse on the bonny brown, 26 

fills with milk the, 182 

fill up the, 10 1 

full of jelly, like a, 24 

has poured, Saki from that, 39 

lurk within the, 349 

mingles with my friendly, 327 

of wine, give me a, 421 

they call the sky, that inverted, 368 

while we drain the, 55 

would break the, 107 
Bowls, 33 

and beauty, nothing but, 308 
Bows, for a hammock at the roaring, 8 
Box, 33 

a gentleman in a black coat on the, 
416 
Boxes, 33 
Boy, 33 

eternal, and to be, 411 

from a, I wantoned with thy 
breakers, 288 

her, belongs where he is wanted, 8 



Index 



505 



Boy 

knows when he goes to sleep, no, 
,37o 

neer a peevish, 107 

playing on the sea-shore, a, 417 

than when I was a, 331 

the Yankee, before he 's sent to 
school, 467 

thou comest, darling, 18 

was the very staff of my age, 383 
Boyhood, the blithe days of, 331 
Boyhood's years, of, 258 
Boyish love, perhaps 't was, 33 
Boys, cheer, 48 

get at one end, what the, 135 

like little wanton, 153 

liquor for, 34 

or women tell their dreams, 99 

people that make puns are like 
wanton, 321 

the Lord will aid us, 38 
Boys' copies, setting of, 63 
Brace of game, for a few more, 208 
Braced my aunt, they, 208 
Brady, his mother was a, 348 
Brag of, this vault to, 270 

one went to, 312 
Braggart with my tongue, and, 399 
Bragh, Erin go, 115 
Brain, 33 

a fire in thy, 69 

begins to swim, till the, 460 

better store of love than, 232 

children of an idle, 99 

like madness in the, 412 

memory the warder of the, 258 

shallow draughts intoxicate the, 
215 

that hath a mint of phrases in his, 
3°3 

the book and volume of my, 331 

the heat-oppressed, 70 

the light within this, 195 

the workings of his, 198 

the written troubles of the, 263 

upon his weary, 400 
Brains, 33 

and blow out your, 373 

have such seething, 243 

were out, when the, 90 
Bramble 's smart, will weep a, 398 
Bran and water, fast a week with, 

312 
Branches, like a tree with splendid, 
461 

of an elm, the springy, 219 
Brandy, 34 

taste a little, is 

umbrellas, 44 
Brandy-punchy feeling, old particu- 
lar, 129 
Brass, 34 

and a' that, 249 

and then his auld, 294 

collar, braw, 58 

resemble copper wire or, 276 



Brave, 34 

and stood still the, 408 

but men less, 145 

could danger, 67 

hearts though stout and, 163 

home of the, 17 

live on, the, 66 

man's moniment, a, 299 

men, to all, 39 

on ye, 152 

our soldiers were, 22 

over the unreturning, 166 

that are no more, the, 410 

the flag of the, no 

the palm of the, 133 

the peace of dead men or of, 299 

the worst turns the best to the, 
78 

toll for the, 410 

where they, the, 276 
Braved a thousand years, whose flag 
has, no 

by his brother, 15 
Bravely, as for life and death, 120 
Bravest, 34 

of the brave, the, 34 
Brazen bells, 5 

mouth, with his, 22 
Breach, more honoured in the, 70 

set upon a little, 128 
Bread, 34, 35 

a loaf of, 85 

and butter, she was cutting, 439 

and liberty, a crust of, 217 

and rags, a crust of, 207 

and salt, I have eaten your, 349 

and tastes his salt, who breaks his, 
12 

as the touch of holy, 205 

but one halfpenny-worth of, 346 

crumbles on her rising, 465 

having looked to government for, 
26 

in the bake, there's, 254 

like eating new, 31 

no wife prepares the, 182 

of banishment, the bitter, 17 

or butter wanted weight, if, 6 

should be so dear, that, 78 

the living Homer begged his, 183 

the same pleasure that he gives him, 
12 

unsavoury, 182 

when he might earn his, 248 
Breadth and thy depth, thy, 403 
Break, 35 

a bending staff, I would not, 120 

a country heart, thought to, 174 

and bids it, 165 

break, break, 161 

ere it rise and, 82 

his heart in splinters, and, 317 

into foam, chafe and, 138 

into the case, death alone can, 403 

it to our hope, and, 318 

my heart concealing it will, 412 



506 



Index 



Break 

nor would I, for your sweet sake, 
246 

of day, at, 210 

of the wave, a, 269 

the bowl, boy would, 107 

the bruised reed he will not, 436 

the heart will, 172 

themselves in swearing, vows which, 
428 

them still, make vows and, 429 

then the cords will, 173 

thy bonds of shame, and, 358 

up their graves, and ghosts, 352 

up housekeeping, when you, 366 

where billows never, 89 

whose very strings would, 10 

. . . the vase, you may, 258 
Breakers, 35 

I wantoned with thy, 288 

roar, the, 2 
Breakfast, 35 

dare eat his, 134 
Breaking, patch hearts that are, 175 

the sleep that knows not, 373 

till the stars of heaven are, 429 
Breaks a butterfly, 41 

away, lightly and brightly, 269 

down but does n't wear out, a chaise, 
46 

forth, diseased nature oftentimes, 
277 

his bread and tastes his salt, 12 

light through yonder window, 225 

some heart indignant, 143 

till your proud heart, 144 
Breast, 35 

a cheer then for the noble, 14s 

are gathered to thy, 354 

as I lie upon your, 334 

as in her, 36 

comes upon the robin's, 241 

eternal in the human, 186 

filled her, 109 

gnawing in the, 64 

he rises in my, 333 

hide thy grief within thy, 234 

his baby at her, 89 

his hands upon his, 62 

I buried it from my, 374 

in the green earth's, 108 

murmur in the, 23 

on her white, 197 

over her, 169 

that trembles in the, 313 

that with dauntless, 168 

the broad earth 's aching, 143 

the child of him she loved, till at her, 
454 

throbbed beneath that leathern, 
174 

truth hath a quiet, 417 

two hands upon the, 208 

was driven into her, 388 

was on thy, 288 

win maiden 's, 83 



Breast 

with a dream of her brooding, 97 

within our, 182 
Breast-milk, the Rhine's, 344 
Breasts, can envy dwell in heavenly, 
114 

our last upon their faithful, 455 

heads stood in their, 88 
Breath, 35 

a lightning-flash of, 123 

and spend my malice in my, 402 

and the boldest held his, 364 

a vapour is, 429 

away, had borne my, 331 

beaten out of them, the dear, 35 

be rude, although thy, 444 

blew out the light within this 
brain, 195 

breathe without, 76 

by summer 's ripening, 239 

call the fleeting, 421 

can float, a, 144 

can make them, a, 300 

death is that first, 76 

in Italy, draws, 145 

is sweet, you ask me why her, 343 

life's more than, 220 

love, wine, a little, 274 

mouth-honour, 223 

no means of stopping for, 229 

of God, his life a, 248 

of his pride, not the, 386 

rides on the posting winds, 368 

suspiration of forced, 448 

the doors of, 118 

the last, 91 

vows are but, 429 

weary of, 420 

we draw our first, 45 s 

what is death but parting, 77 

when the good man yields his, 159 

who draw living, 114 

with his departing, 61 
Breathe and walk again, 293 

in England, slaves cannot, 368 

not his name, oh, 274 

on its fadeless bloom, 209 

their last, or when lapdogs, 362 

their words in pain, 105 

thereon didst only, 99 

will share thy destiny, all that, 86 

without breath, 76 

with syllables which, 210 
Breathed, as it were, 160 

her last, she has, 105 

in the face of the foe, 77 

of him, 100 

the long, long night away, 105 
Breathes a benison, and, 157 

but still it, 416 

labours, fights, lives, 176 

no more, spirit, 140 

there the man, 65 

upon a bank of violets, that, 273 
Breathing, 36 



less of earth than heaven, 176 



Index 



507 



Breathing 

of roses only, 100 

these only words, 62 
Breaths I hate, whose, 69 

in thoughts not, 227 
Bred in a book, dainties that are, 30 

in the kitchen, 148 

out, the strain of man's, 267 

where is fancy, 124 
Breech, 36 
Breeches, and all that, the, 323 

cost him but a crown, his, 387 

short blistered, 401 

were blue, and his, 87 
Breed a habit, use doth, 167 

and nurse, 311 

ballad-makers, and, 299 

nor birth, border nor, 391 

of men, this happy, 112 
Breeds hard English men, 113 

like the old heroic, 250 

that feeds and, 402 

very valiant creatures, in 
Breeze, a wing a cloud, without a, 368 

blow, we felt the same, 230 

braved the battle and the, no 

death rides on every passing, 77 

of eve unfurled, the freshening, 1 1 1 

the joy to every wandering, 275 

unfurled, their flag to April's, 362 

without a, 200 
Breezy dells, all about the, 52 
Brevity, 36 

Brew, soup or broth, or, 3 2 
Brewed with her sorrows, 399 
Brewer's horse, a, 53 
Brewing toward my rest, 98 
Bribe, 36 

or prayer, no, 274 

too poor for a, 141 
Bribed their liberties away, that, 106 
Bribery 's golden sky, 64 
Bribes, 36 

Brick, deadlier than stone or, 114 
Bricks, 36 
Bridal of the earth and sky, 73 

time of law and love, the, 300 
Bride, 36 

and my bark is my, 4 

and sought me for his, 68 

came forth on her wedding night, 
55 

consent to be his, 364 

darkness as a, 90 

or maid, mother or, 113 
Bride-bed, 36 
Bridegroom from his room, like a, 351 

stood at the open door, the, 194 
Bridge, 37 

of Sighs, I stood in Venice on the, 
424 

that arched the flood, by the rude, 
362 
Bridged by his thoughts, are, 403 
Bridled, the steeds are all, 387 
Bridle-reins, a shake, 3 



Brief, 37 

... as woman's love, 't is, 238 

in goodness, makes beauty, 21 
Briefs they write, all the, 455 
Brier, one blossom on a, 462 
Briers, 37 

who found not thorns, 374 
Bright and yellow, 157 

be it gloomy or, 116 

beyond the gulf of death, 159 

day so cool so calm so, 73 

may our wine be as, 257 

my Burgundy, made, 274 

ones disappear, see my, 19 

short and, 9 

that outward sheweth, 158 

the, the pure, the beautiful, 88 

things which gleam, 354 

to-morrow, shows the, 48 
Brighten as they take their flight, 27 
Brightens, how the wit, 231 
Brighter, look, when we come, 438 

ray, emits a, 185 

suns dispense serener light, 65 
Brightest thunderbolt from the dark- 
est storm, 41 
Brightness of the skies, mid the, 378 

purity and truth, amazing, 452 
Brim, a primrose by a river's, 316 

but sparkles near the, 220 

with the bubbles on its, 321 
Brine, and stewed in, 439 
Bring bad news, to, 281 

but so much money as 't will, 266 

forth, a gaoler to, 41 

forth a mouse, the labouring moun- 
tain must, 270 

him back, I cannot, 365 

in great logs, 230 

in the spirit, and Jock, 380 

out their music, to, 397 

such fishes back, to, 132 

the plaster, when you should, 374 

the treasure back, will, 149 

with thee, and, 196 
Bringer, the first, of unwelcome news, 

281 
Bringing him to his own, and, 404 
Brings down the rate of usance, 42 1 

in his revenge, whirligig of time, 407 

in some boats, 141 

the light, memory, 258 

within him hell he, 178 
Brink, and I gasping on the, 439 

unfaltering on its dreadful, 420 
Brinks, that hit at bothe, 53 
Britain, 37 

Britain 's glory, forgot was, 241 
British, 37 

man, blood of a, 27 

soldier, come you back you, 252 

square, for you broke a, 147 

stare, with a stony, 384 
Briton may traverse the pole, 1 1 2 
Britons, 37 

have a tongue and free quill, no 



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Index 



Britons 

never will be slaves, 37 
Brittle one, was at best a, 266 
Broad face, he had a, 24 

they lie so, 15s 
Broadcloth without, 183 
Broadens slowly down, freedom, 144 
Brogue, with his wonderful, 194 
Broke a British square, for you, 147 

all trie vows that ever men have, 
429 

and robbed a house below, 306 

a vow, I never, 456 

his leg then, 216 

loose, all hell, 178 

moulded to be, 107 

no promise, who, 385 

over them, all at once a sea, 465 

the die in moulding Sheridan, 359 

the good meeting, 264 

the Sabbath, never, 345 

under me, at length, 153 

vows for thee, 157 

which in storms ne'er, 439 
Broken in heart, the, 61 

into shards if we offend, and, 107 

me, grief and solitude have, 32 

oh, pain, that it is, 293 

than kept, bad promises are better, 
319 

the cheerful hearts now, 258 

thy vows are all, 428 

vow, renew the, 179 

when the lute is, 209 

when thy sleep shall be, 390 

with storms of state, 29 
Broken-hearted, 37 

and languish, 295 

half, 296 
Brokenly live on, yet, 172 
Brood, doves will peck in safeguard of 

their, 463 
Broodest o'er the troubled sea of the 

mind, 369 
Brooding on fancy's eggs, 124 

over bein' a dog, 134 
Brook, 37 

and river meet, where the, 246 

a willow grows aslant a, 444 

dogrose blushin' to a, 95 

drowned in the, 137 

is deep, where the, 43 s 

restraint she will not, 452 
Brooks, books in running, 3 

leap the rainbows of the, 350 

in Vallombrosa, that s trow the, 216 

make rivers, as, 167 
Broth, or brew, soup or, 32 
Brother, 37 

and trust his sworn, 415 

braved by his, 15 

forlorn and shipwrecked, 138 

I grew so like my, 418 

John, came and buried, 265 

like a vera, 37 

man, gently scan your, 188 



Brother 

shall be a friend and, 38 

Sleep, death and his, 81 

though the younger, 216 

to Death, 81 

to the ox, a, 388 
Brotherhood, 38 

Brother 's blood, were thicker than it- 
self with, 169 

hand, by a, 370 

murder, a, 272 
Brothers, 38 

his, and thy own, 314 

live together, and as, 433 

men the workers, men my, 461 

Romans were like, 341 

sisters, 129 

the counterfeit presentment of two, 
303 

they our, 416 
Broths, and sauced our, 62 
Brougham thinks as much as he 

talks, if, 423 
Brought to min', never, 14 
Brow, 38 

but some sober, 330 

consents to death, 152 

dat float on de mountains, 297 

is beld, but now your, 3 1 1 

grace was seated on his brow, 250 

no mercy now can clear her, 366 

of the foeman should scowl, if the, 
226 

shed upon my, 76 

the hand that slanted back this, 19s 

there are no signs of care on my, 
33i 

pain and anguish wring the, 453 

to braid, thy, 402 

was brent, your bonnie, 311 

writes no wrinkles on thine azure, 
406 
Brown, 38 

a little white amidst the, 68 

all the trees are, 290 

as a berry, that 's as, 246 

mad as he was, 401 

raised his right hand up to heaven, 
424 

this quiet Mr., 350 
Brownate of truth, the, 416 _ 
Brows, a nightcap decked his, 282 

gathering her, 46s 

on either of our, 296 
Browse on that, we'll, 257 
Bruin 's no worse than bakin', 393 
Bruised reed, he will not break, the, 

436 
Brunt, bear the, 78 
Brush, needs no painter's, 152 

suggestive of a wet, 171 
Brushes his hat, a', 239 
Brushing with hasty steps, 392 
Brussels lace, chintz and, 75 
Brute, 38 

an' chuck him out, the, 410 



Index 



509 



Brute 

man that blushes is not quite a, 28 

question, how answer his, 147 
Brutes no longer, deem our nation, 58 

we quarrelled like, 323 

without you, we had been, 452 
Brutus, Cassar had his, 414 

is, no orator as, 291 

makes mine greater, 14s 
Bryant say, does not Mr., 415 
Bubble, 38 

air, a vapour, 219 

burst, a, 379 

hell-broth boil and, 179 

honour but an empty, 43 1 

is like a, 461 

reputation, seeking the,. 3 73 

the world's a, 461 
Bubbles, 39 

borne like thy, 288 

do when they burst, just as, 303 

on its brim, with the, 321 

we buy, 177 
Bubbling and loud-hissing urn, 116 
Bucket, 39 
Buckets, 39 

Buckingham, so much for, 171 
Bud, like a worm i' the, 298 

of love, this, 239 

to heaven conveyed, the opening, 

Budge, 39 

the Ten Commandments will not, 
386 

Buffets of the world, the vile blows 
and, 328 

Buffoon, a hired, 245 
statesman and, 114 

Bugbears of a winter's eve, the, 401 

Bugle, blow, 382 

Bugle-horn, 39 

Bugles, 39 

Build, 39 

factories with blood, 413 

his monument, go, 267 

me a nest, behold I will, 156 

my faith on that, I, 155 

new ships to, 353 

thee more stately mansions, 376 

the ladder by which we rise, 208 

Builded, 39 

Builders have builded, the, 207 

Building, 40 

man can raise, the stateliest, 195 

Buildings, gaze upon the, 413 

Builds a church to God, who, 53 
among the stars, 316 
himself, each man . . . ,322 
on the earth, the earth, 106 
on the watery sod, the marsh-hen, 

156 
stronger than . . . the mason, 
164 

Built, 40 

a paper-mill, thou hast, 3 1 7 
in your parlour or study, 212 



Built 

on another man's ground, 187 

their temple walls, 155 
Bulk, seem to shatter all his, 363 
Bulldog, 40 

Bullets, I'm not afraid of, 283 
Bulls aim their horns, 14 

dewlapped like, 88 
Bully, like a tall, 59 
Bumper I drain, a, 51 
Bunch of radish, I am a, 324 
Bung-hole, till he find it stopping a, 

421 
Bunker 's Hill, 40 
Burden, 40 

grow, will with the, 389 

life will be a heavy, 460 

of the world, on his back, the, 180 
Burdens down, where we lay our, 278 

of the Bible, old, 24 
Burgundy, 40 

health made bright, my, 274 

in all its sunset glow, 344 

with a bottle of, 360 
Burial, 40 

sod, and fill the, 177 

sod, beneath the, 114 
Burial-ground God 's-acre, 157 
Buried, Alexander was, 421 

because not, 75 

Brother John, came and, 265 

from human eyes, lies deeply, 186 

in a cave, though he's, 15 

in thy eyes, be, 174 

it from my breast, I, 374 
Burma girl a-settin', there's a, 251 
Burn, but not enough to, 4 

him, pinch him and, 304 

in itself to ashes, 48 

I smoke but do not, 339 

or blot it, can, 153 

the blazing hearth shall, 175 

the embers that still, 108 

the heart to cinders, doth, 298 

to the socket. 91 

when once their slumbering pas- 



Si 

if with love thy heart has, 234 
Burning and consuming element, 4 

bright, tiger, 405 

burns out another's, 131 

core below, up from the, 24 

for fear of, 131 
Burnished sun, livery of the, 60 
Burns most of all, 131 

out another's burning, 131 

when the blood, 429 

ye, blew the fire that, 131 
Burnt and purged away, 380 

green and blue, 81 
Burrs, when you stick on conversa- 
tion's, 62 
Burst all flowery chains, has, 321 

and in they, 1 79 



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Index 



Burst his mighty heart, then, 192 

into that silent sea, 353 

just as bubbles do when they, 303 

now a bubble, 38 

of happy song, hear the, 23 

out into sudden blaze, 123 

till they, 248 
Bursts full-blossomed, century, 143 
Burthen, 40 

e'en wit's a, 396 

of a song, as though it were the, 400 

our remembrance, 177 
Burthens, kick off their, 55 
Bury all unkindness, in this I, 421 

Csesar, I come to, 341 

its dead, the dead Past, 147 

the Great Duke, let us, 271 

them, in expectation to, 254 

whom he helped to starve, 384 
Bush, 40 

and every common, 153 

an officer, thief doth fear each, 394 

a shelter yields, no, 207 

bird that hath been limed in a, 25 

misdoubteth every, 25 

supposed a bear, 128 
Bushels of chaff, hid in two, 327 
Bushes green, time shall make the, 
„ . 2 33 
Business, 40 

be set apart for, 102 

dinner lubricates, 92 

feeling of his, 70 

is a derned sight better, 404 

no public, 54 

of the day, the, 102 

some to, 325 

will be crost, the, 429 
Bust, and worse, 123 

can storied urn or animated, 421 

of Pallas, perched upon a, 325 
Busting out, with the meanness, 256 
Busy in all, than to be, 92 
But, 41 
Butcher, 41 
Butchered to make a Roman holiday, 

181 
Butchery, furious close of civil, 54 
Butler, cook, pantler, 71 
Butter, fat as, 126 

smell of bread and, 34 

tired wench and coming, 429 

to plain bread and, 34 

wanted weight, if bread or, 6 
Butterflies, no, no bees, 285 
B titter fly, 41 

from flower to flower, the, 342 
Buttock of the night, 282 
Buttons I fall asleep, over the, 460 

when we 've matched our, 211 
Butt-shaft, the blind bow-boy's, 118 
Buxom, 41 
Buy, 41 

a knot that gold and silver can, 206 

as thy purse can, n 

a world of happy days, 99 



Buy 

first, they throng who should, 415 

gingerbread, thou should'st have it 
to, 301 

him a wooden one to, 434 

me a new pan, will, 294 

the horse, to, 187 

the spoils of office cannot, 259 
Buyer, a benediction to the, 415 
Buys, he sells, he steals for gold, 157 

out the law, 289 

who, who is the pot, 311 
Buzz for a period, 64 
Bygone days, a relic of, 357 



C lies, here Francis, 87 

Cabbages and kings, of, 430 
Cabin-window bright, I see the, 200 
Cabined, 41 
Cable broke, the, 23 1 

his line a, 439 
Cad, here I come to be a farmer 's, 200 
Cadence sweet, in, 52 
CcBsar, 41 

coffin there with, 174 

had his Brutus, 414 

I come to bury, 341 

imperious, 421 

loved me, as, 7 
Cassar 's hair, the exact shade of 
Julius, 58 

spirit, 33s . 
Cage from which, is a, 375 

nor iron bars a, 318 
Caged and captured, when, 233 
Cages, 'tis wiser to make, 280 

not in making, 280 
Cain, and the first city, 64 
Cake, 41 

we '11 eat our, 254 
Cakes and ale, no more, 427 
Calculation crossed, abhorrent of a, 

161 
Calamity, 41 

he that nobly bears, 422 
Calculators, sophists, economists and, 

So 
Calf, 42 
Calf's-skin on those recreant limbs, 

226 
Call a conscience, thing they, 61 

again, promising with smiles to, 361 

all things by their names, 275 

and call, though we may, 369 

at Number One, to, 290 

back yesterday, bid time return, 
468 

for me, one clear, 17 

for needful rest, each, 304 

for them, come when you do, 381 

him Peter, I'll, 275 

me early, mother dear, 256 

me fool, dost thou, 137 

me not fool, 137 



Index 



511 



Call my own, all I dare now, 340 
of incense-breathing morn, the 

breezy, 269 
our own but death, 80 
saints will aid if men will, 348 
spirits from the vasty deep, 381 
the devil over his own coals, 347 
thee devil, let us, 445 
the fleeting breath, 42 1 
the Muezza 's, 154 
the rest, and presently, 422 
thou wilt not slight my, 84 
to-day his own, 408 
unmoved can hear the, 227 
you, hear your country, 94 

Call'dst me dog before thou hadst a 
cause, 95 

Called her his lady fair, 136 
her woman, 449 
that softly, sadly, 321 
the tailor lown, he, 387 

Callest me, I will arise . . . 
when thou, 437 

Calling heaven 's vengeance down, 424 
if you 've heard the East a-, 107 
I left no, 466 
nor he for any, 365 
sof come in, come in, 358 
up and down, love goes, 290 

Calls it peace, makes a solitude and, 
373 

Calm and peaceful shall I sleep, 84 
and tempest, through, 245 
for those who weep, a, 333 
lying so straightly in an icy, 80 
so bright, day so cool, so, 73 
that breathes around, the holy, 298 
the awful, 369 
they sleep, how, 370 
unfit, for a, 304 
with a touch of infinite, 374 

Calmed, soon, 84 

Calmness about its nap, an unnatural, 



iber, for, 330 
Calms, after every tempest come 
such, 400 

so much the spirit, 344 
Calumny, 42 
Came, and the war, 431 

down agen, and so, 202 

down like a wolf, 14 

down the lang glen, 458 

faster and louder, 389 

he mad, how, 245 

into the woods my Master, 457 

know not whence you, 100 

like a storm he, 388 

like water and like wind I go, 435 

to scoff, fools who, 352 

through, a hole where his tail, 87 
Camel, 42 

Death, though the black, 126 

in shape of a, 56 
Camp, 42 

the grove, the court, the, 237 



Camp-fires before us gleam, her, 281 
Camping-ground, on fame 's eternal, 

26 
Camps a leader sage, in, 46 
Can, fill the cup, and fill the, 69 

still be done, 96 

such things be, 56 

the youth replies I, 104 

we'll drink our, 254 
Cancel all our vows, 296 

half a line, lure it back to, 465 
Cancer, 42 
Candid censor, a, 91 

friend, save me from the, 145 
Candidate, 42 
Candied tongue lick absurd pomp, let 

the, 412 
Candle, 42 

as well, 22 

bell, book and, 22 

out, out, brief, 411 
Candle-light, colours seen by, 468 
Candles shine, and the many, 194 

and starlight and moonshine, 304 
Canker, the, and the grief, 223 
Cankers wasting town and state, all 

the, 325 
Cannikin clink, let me the, 100 
Cannon, 42 

are pointed, the, 387 

not so loud as that of a, 203 

shot from the mouth of a, 283 

that speaks from the mouth of the, 
3*4 
Cannon-balls may aid the truth, 159 
Cannon's mouth, even in the, 373 

opening roar, the, 12 
Cannon-shot, 42 
Cannot be undone, what's done, 96 

write and those who can, those who, 
466 
Canon 'gainst self-slaughter, 134 
Canopy, 43 

Canst, vow while thou, 429 
Canstick turned, a brazen, 309 
Cant of a Saviour 's name, where they, 
208 

of not men, but measures, 256 

pressed with specious, 2 
Can't, plenty that can if you, 413 
Can't-be gentlemen, would-be wits 

and, 150 
Canteen, double drill and no, 39s 
Canticles of love and woe, the, 24 . 
Cap and bells, for a, 177 

by night, a, 282 
Capacity for work, I have never found 
out the limit of my, 460 

of loving, man who . . . has the 
largest, 243 
Capable of nothing, for the most are, 

ingenious, forward, 33 
Capers nimbly, he, 432 
Capital, and Belgium's, 334 
Capitol, who was 't betrayed the, 452 



512 



Index 



Capon lined, with good, 199 
Caps, 43 
Captain, 43 

any, not under fire, 132 

can do wrong, no, 360 

111, Captive Good attending, 417 

of my soul, I am the, 126 

still, be the proud, 126 
Captains and the kings depart, the, 
139 

the remark, should, 219 
Captive Good attending Captain 111, 

417 
Captured, when caged and, 233 
Car, and the clattering, 271 

by the bright track of his fiery, 393 

of day, gilded, 73 

or drive the rapid, 386 

rattling o'er the stony street, 444 
Caravan, join the innumerable, 227 
Carcass fit for hounds, a, 201 

is, wheresoever the, 184 
Carcasses, prize as the dead, 69 
Card, 43 

insipid as the queen upon a, 193 
Cardinal rose with a dignified look, the, 

22 
Cards, an old age of, 462 

for money, cannot afford to play, 
234 

little or nothing of their, 379 

two players playing at, 77 
Care, 43 

age is full of, 5 

and melancholy, dull with, 196 

and public, 85 

and weep away the life of, 81 

as feeling her, 212 

as light as a feather, 361 

but add a little, 396 

by the chimney with, 5 1 

crazed with, 66 

death came with friendly, 77 

derides, sport that wrinkled, 382 

for him who shall have borne the 
battle, to, 337 

housewife ply her evening, 175 

how compounded, with what, 78 

I, how kind she be, what, 201 

I neither know nor, 295 

mettle enough to kill, 45 

killed a cat, 45 

not for feeling, 67 

not how they flow, I, 409 

o' th' main chance, have a, 46 

painter who made it his, 294 

take, 24 

the furrows of, 340 

the ravelled sleave of, 370 

there are no signs of, 331 

there's neither cauld nor, 215 

the restless pulse of, 374 

the sin, ring out the want, 430 

the woman who did not, 136 

wales a portion with judicious, 464 

without grief or, 219 



Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable 

night, 81 
Career, curbed her high, 142 

quitting the busy, 333 
Careful of the type she seems, so, 419 
Careless of censure, 46 

of the single life, so, 419 

word, drops some, 173 
Cares, 44 

against eating, 394 

all the torments, all the, 339 

and pleasures, what, 338 

and strife, void of, 359 

dividing, and his, 443 

for naught beside, 419 

for thee, one that, 189 

little, sprang up like weeds, 450 

of life, they increase the, 50 

on God, cast all your, 9 
Caress thee, dearer friends, 331 

wooing the, 408 
Caressed, hated yet, 67 
Careworn brow, to smooth the, 297 
Carnage, amid the thickest, 179 
Carnal part, a very heathen in the, 

330 
Carnivorous production, man is a, 256 
Carouse, with what a brave, 426 
Carousing, there's no, 101 
Carpenter, shipwright or the, 164 
Carpet knight so trim, 46 
Carriage, improving the manners and, 
253 

take the air in a close, 416 
Carried so high, the head she, 316 

on, which always must be, 329 
Carries anger, that, 209 
Carrion flesh, a weight of, 103 

where'er ye fling the, 184 
Carry all he knew, could, 456 

gentle peace, in thy right hand, 299 

I, I spin, 386 

me to unknown lands, to, 186 

the flag, party that does not, 420 

where winds can, 161 
Cart, I cannot draw a, 251 
Carve him as a dish, let's, 201 
Carved for many a year, have been, 
252 

it, twenty years later we have, 275 

not a line, we, 153 
Case, 44 

can be no worse, for where your, 86 

can break into the, 403 

is uncommonly hard, its, 390 

let us consider the reason of the, 327 

o' gowd, I 'd locked my heart in a, 
231 

that's still too common, a, 449 

then closes the, 33 

this appears the common, 345 

when a lady 's in the, 209 
Cases, his, his tenures, 214 

of defence, in, 84 

suppose a change o', 142 
Cash, 44 



Index 



513 



Cask of good old beer, 57 

ran sour, my, 57 
Cassius, as that spare, 126 

is aweary of the world, 15 
Cassock, unbidden from the, 312 
Cast, 44 

all your cares on God, 9 

as rubbish to the void, 160 

away, the other, 265 

into my teeth, 15 

it at his feet, and when he will to, 
107 

it like a serpent, that, 416 

of thought, the pale, 61 

off his friends, he, 14s 

or on the waters, 441 

thee shuddering, and, 377 

their shadows before, coming events 

1. 358 
when once, 127 

yet, your colt 's tooth is not, 58 
Castle, 44 

hall, the mistletoe hung in the, 
265 

walls, the splendour falls on, 382 
Castle's strength, our, 17 
Castles and towers, the earth builds, 

106 
Castor, smoothing its dilapidated, 171 
Casuists doubt, and soundest, 94 
Cat, 44, 45 

at play, like a, 60 

if your mother 's, 277 

laps milk, take suggestion as a, 392 

mad if they behold a, 304 

melancholy as a gib, 258 
Cataract, the wild, leaps in glory, 382 
Catarrhs, to find out agues, coughs, 

306 
Catastrophe, 45 
Catch a saint, to, 347 

him once upon the hip, 166 

that the one doth, 196 

the conscience of the king, 306 

the driving gale, and, 278 

the wild goat, 350 
Catched a vild beast, then I, 200 

caught when they are, 447 

with mouldy corn, that is, 206 
Catechism, 45 

so ends my, 185 
Caters for the sparrow, providently, 

326 
Caterwauls, squalls, mauls, 44 
Cates, than feed on, 399 
Cathay, 45 

Catherine Street, the paper is pub- 
lished in, 294 
Cats, 45 
Cattle, be not like dumb driven, 179 

'tain't a knowing kind of, 206 
Caty do, what did, 200 
Caught it. when at last he, 342 

when they are catched, 447 

with glare, maidens, like moths, are 
ever, 270 



Caught with tickling, trout that must 

be, 405 
Cauldron, 45 
Cause, 45 

are not ever jealous for the, 195 

a worthier, 144 

before thou had'st a, 95 

be valiant in a better, 422 

bring fame and profit, ere her, 34 

dared for a high, 120 

for God, for the, 19 

good or evil times, which, 317 

he knows the, 357 

if bold in virtue's, 411 

increased devotion to that, 276 

in freedom 's, 58 

magnificent and awful, 12 

no, is tried, 455 

o' 'er munny, 241 

of a long ten years' war, the, 452 

of my love and my hate, the, 327 

of policy, to any, 161 

of war, a lawful, 430 

power i' the truth of the, 417 

ring out a slowly dying, 339 

undertake the noblest, 143 
Caused printing to be used, thou hast, 

3i7 
Causes springs, dire offence from 
am'rous, 414 

which impelled them, the, 356 

why and wherefore in all things, 288 
Cave, in yon, Honorius long did dwell, 
i77 

there is cold meat i' the, 257 

though he's buried in a, 15 
Caved the head of Thompson in, 141 
Cavern, within this hollow, 411 
Caverns of darkness, running through, 
45i 

the sea's mysterious, 354 

voices from the deep, 163 
Caves of ocean, the dark unfathomed, 

284 
Caviare, 45 
Cavil, 45 

Cawing from a steeple, keeps a-, 52 
Cease, and all tears, 208 

every fierce tumultuous passion, 298 

rude Boreas, 346 

things at the worst will, 464 

thy counsel, 64 

to follow him, lamb will never, 226 

to sin, mankind should, 365 

your tears, 74 
Cecilia, 45 
Celerity, 46 
Celery tips, their blunt ends frizzled 

like, 437 
Celestial fire, pregnant with, 109 

stuff, the true, 5 
Cell, disdains her shattered, 367 

each in his narrow, 108 

in my heart's most secret, 296 

like a toad in his, 446 



5M 



Index 



Cell, no, enclose, 262 

this narrow, was life's retreat, 367 
Cells, as in honeyed, 330 

in thy treasure-caves and, 354 
Celt said of purgatory, as the, 321 
Cenotaphed his fame, have, 122 
Censor, a candid, 91 
Censors who sniff out our moral 

taints, 347 
Censure, 46 

more tongued with, 165 

'scape, no might can, 42 
Centre, life which is of all life, 76 

moved, the, 53 

the heartless, 419 

throned in the, 353 
Centuries, after the silence of the, 
147 

bowed by the weight of, 180 

forty, look down upon you, 322 

more gave a thumb, 311 
Century, come in sight once in a, 466 

energy sublime of a, 143 

fruit, their, 31 

of sleep, than a, 390 
Ceremony, it useth an enforced, 238 

sauce to meat is, 129 

that to great ones 'longs, no, 260 
Certain age, lady of a, 4 

one thing is, 135 

that the earth was square, 106 
Certainly aged, which means, 4 
Certainty, faith itself be lost in, 376 

to please, the, 443 
Chadbands, Mr., he wos a-prayin' 

wunst, 314 
Chafe and break into foam, 138 

as at a personal wrong, 161 
Chaff behind, and leave the, 193 

corn in, 67 

for corn, receiving, 103 

hid in two bushels of, 327 
Chafing their channels of stone, 451 
Chain, ere slumber's, 258 

his speech was like a tangled, 380 

while they rend the, 385 

wove, my heart's, 236 
Chained, the lions were, 226 

when it could not praise was, 411 
Chains and slavery, the price of, 
217 

but he saw not the, 226 

has burst all flowery, 321 

no, can bind it, 262 

with leaden, 122 
Chair, 46 

fall back into my, 284 

shall fa', last beside his, 201 

she sat in, jumping from the, 204 
Chaise, 46 
Chalk and alum and plaster, 35 

proud of knowing cheese from, 320 
Challenge double pity, may, 364 

each torn flag wavin', 299 

so much I, 189 

to his end, dares send a, 221 



Chamber, capers nimbly in a lady's, 
432 

clothed in white, from that, 55 

door, open thy, 240 

door, perched above my, 325 

door, rapping at my, 261 

get you to my lady 's, 468 

made, thy nightly visits to my, 283 

where each shall take his, 227 
Chamberlain, guilt was my grim, 167 
Chambers desolate, its, 367 

opens at once into the secret, 129 
Chameleon love can feed on the air, 

240 
Chameleons quite, bards are not, 123 
Champ on the bit, of their, 387 
Champagne , 46 

soul of the foaming grape, 344 
Champagny old-particular brandy- 
punchy feeling, 129 
Champion, 46 
Chance, 46 

all, direction, 337 

be right by, 136 

comes from art not, 467 

it be shaken, if by, 173 

or by what, 377 

under the bludgeonings of, 28 

without a fair, 292 
Chanced, what he feared is, 394 
Chancery, which flew up to heaven 's, 

287 
Chances, enhances life and all its, 284 
Change, 46 

and fate fulfill, 154 

by to-morrow, were to, 47 

came o'er the spirit, 98 

life 's spring, I would, 409 

o' cases, suppose a, 142 

of place, fly by, 178 

shall, shall blend, 78 

the stamp of nature, use almost 
can, 421 

their skies above them, they, 367 

to cheers, the hisses, 180 
Changed, the law is also, 327 
Changeful as the light, 73 
Changeless law, changing world of, 224 
Changes on the wind, four, 52 

that monthly, 268 

we have seen, what, 338 

when they are wives, the sky, 457 

well, rung her, 244 
Changing the word, by, 85 

world of changeless law, 224 
Channels of stone, chafing their, 451 

run thus far in separate, 339 
Chant thy praise, hypocrisy, power to, 

190 
Chants a doleful hymn, 273 
Chaos, 46 

of thought and passion, 462 

is come again, 239 

of insane hurrahs, one whirlwind, 
188 
Chapel there, devil always builds a, 87 



Index 



5i5 



Chap-fallen, quite, 468 
Chapped hands, clapped their, 43 
Char, my bosom cannot, 339 
Character be vindicated, than shall 
my, 114 

genius should marry a person of, 254 
Characteristic, has nothing so, 171 
Characters at all, most women have 
no, 45s 

in dust, write the, 450 

our roots in, 62 
Charge, 47 

for the golden lilies, 179 

this is your, 422 
Charged, the heart is sorely, 363 
Charger, he turned his, 3 
Charging line, rises along the, 19 
Chariot of fire, the God mount his, 

255 
Charities of domestic life, against the, 

413 
Charity remains, gracious, 219 

a little earth for, 29 

began, pity gave ere, 305 

begins at home, sense like, 356 

for all, with, 337 

for melting, 161 

rarity of Christian, 182 
Charlatan, defamed by every, 150 
Charles, King, that to, 39 

King of England, for, 19 

the First, his Cromwell, 414 

why should your mother, 164 
Charlie's sake, for, 365 
Charlotte, Werther had a love for, 439 
Charm ache with air, 5 

blest with that, 443 

can soothe, what, 136 

can tame, no, 351 

from the sky, 182 

of powerful trouble, 1 79 
Charmer, 47 

Charmers, like other, 408 
Charming, chaste, and twenty-three, 

253 
Charms, 47 

and spells around him flung, 283 

by accepting, 400 

remove the very, 342 

solitude, where are the, 373 

strike the sight, 260 

that dotes on truer, 246 

to soothe a savage breast, 272 

to show, a thousand, 143 

who can love a sister 's, 400 
Charter, 47 

as large a, 2 1 7 

of the land, 37 
Chartered libertine, a, 5 
Charybdis, I fall into, 353 
Chase, gloom to, 219 

in piteous, 398 

its tail, the compass, 60 

the glowing hours, to, 71 

woe worth the, 448 
Chased, the urchin, 342 



Chaste, 47 

and twenty-three, married, charm- 
ing, 253 

as ice, 42 
Chasten and share, to, 153 
Chastises those whom most he likes, 

Chastity, 47 

Chat, 47 

Chattering pies in dismal discords 

sung, 25 
Chaucer, 47 
Chaw of terbacker, I want a, 404 

terbacker, I 'd larnt him ter, 408 
Cheap, 47 

flesh and blood so, 78 

in beauty, goodness that is, 21 
Cheat, 47 

I, I lie, 247 

is plain, the, 249 

the thirsty moments, to, 288 
Cheated as to cheat, of being, 47 
Check, is an immediate, 108 

them, and, 403 
Cheek, 47 

a lean. 239 

a little red, 75 

as it flits across thy, 293 

a something on her, 204 

a villain with a smiling, 1 1 

feed on her damask, 298 

have rolled, tears adown that 
dusky, 174 

if changing, 233 

is blooming, and why her, 343 

or chin, 91 

pale grew thy, 296 

something upon the soldier's, 312 

so pale and chill, the, 369 

the crimson streak on ocean's, 73 

the rose of her, 153 
Cheek 's pale hue, in my, 458 
Cheeks, mashed upon her, 399 

than one, or kiss more, 200 

with artificial tears, 118 
Cheer, 48 

at Christmas play and make good, 

but not inebriate, 116 

his soul, to, 182 

'mid the gay, 116 

then for the noble breast, a, 145 

up, my lads, 286 

with festal, 10 1 
Cheered, the ship was, 359 
Cheerful, 48 

as to-day, can make to-morrow, 400 

bells, the sound of, 52 
Cheerfulness, no warmth, no, 285 
Cheers for this Christmas old, give 
three, 51 

the hisses change to, 180 

the tar 's labour, 408 

the way, adorns and, 185 
Cheese, 48 

and garlic, live with, 399 



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Index 



Cheese 

from chalk, proud of knowing, 320 

mouldy like their, 94 

to him who wants a, 265 

white wood that cuts like, 441 

would beg a, 92 
Chequered shade, dancing in the, 71 
Cherish, 48 

factions, and, 10 1 

which may achieve, and, 337 
Cherries, 48 

those kissing, 226 
Cherry and a fig, a, 162 

like to a double, 224 
Cherub, 48 

no art can copy, 96 
Cherubim, fluttered by the wings of, 

52 

Cherubs on its face, and may the, 68 

Chess-board, 48 

Chest contrived a double debt to pay, 

the, 295 
Chester, charge, 47 

Cheveril glove, a sentence is but a, 447 
Chew and choke as much as possible, 

40 
Chewed and digested, some few to be, 

Chickens, 48, 49 

Chide me for loving, dare to, 12 
Chides his infamous delay, 251 
Chief, 49 

a requiem for the, 332 

in her halls, a, 63 

o' Scotia's food, 310 
Chiefest surprise, was the, 76 
Chief 's a rod, and a, 183 
Chieftain treats a foe, an Arab, 12 
Chiels, facts are, 1 19 
Child, 49 

again, make me a, 340 

a naked new-born, 227 

and never spares the, 341 

and spoil the, 232 

an old man is twice a, 250 

as yet a, 466 

bathe in me, mother and, 247, 419 

could love it like a, 169 

even from a, 92 

he never spoils the, 341 

I could lie down like a tired, 81 

may rue that is unborn, the, 419 

of doubt and death, poor, 330 

of him she loved, till at her breast 
the, 454 

of many prayers, thou, 313 

of my absent, 165 

of thee, I was as it were a, 288 

of the skies, the, 58 

out of the deep, 18 

saving a little, 404 

simplicity a, 252 

sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's, 432 

that bids the world good-night, 96 

that knows his own, 127 

thou show'st thee in a, 192 



Child 

was too fast, if the, 348 

where is my, 107 

who enters life, 77 

will weep a bramble 's smart, 398 
Childhood, 49 

fleet, womanhood and childhood, 
246 

fleeted by, how my, 331 

in my days of, 307 

shows the man, 49 

through, 58 
Childhood's pleasures were, what, 331 
Childish days, sweet, 74 

weakness, 't were, 65 
Childishness, 49 
Childlike and bland, the smile that 

was, 371 
Children, 50 

at my heels, a troop of little, 167 

but the young, young, 469 

fear to go into the dark, 77 

forth, shall bring her, 353 

had the measles, if the, 198 

he that hath wife and, 442 

lodging, wife and, 187 

must go as little, 77 

nature fits all her, 67 

not more the, 59 

of an idle brain, 99 

pride of a mother in her, 315 

reared the Assyrian piles, Shem 's 
proud, 350 

run to lisp, no, 175 

spare . . . my poor, 1 5 

stood watching them, the, 132 

they amuse themselves and other, 
321 

thou call'st its, 209 

two, in two neighbour villages, 224 

weep before you, well may the, 437 

yet unborn, the, 419 
Children's children, our, 50 

children, they enslave their, 60 

early words, and the, 235 

souls which God is calling sunward, 
439 
Child's heart, on a, 413 
Chill, dark the night, and, 211 

it makes my blood run, 282 

'twould keep away the, 40 

waxed deadly and, 77 

with early showers, 105 
Chills, the moral market had the 

usual, 269 
Chimsras dire, hydras and, 161 
Chime, all the way to guide their, 286 

faintly as tolls the evening, 286 

rang out Tintagel, 155 

sounding from the, 115 

to chime, from weary, 282 

when last I heard their soothing, 
2 3 
Chimes at midnight, we have heard 

the, 262 
Chimings, a few more, 222 



Index 



517 



Chimney, 50 

by the, with care, 51 

in my father's house, 36 
Chimney-piece, leave the bottle on 

the, 32 
Chimney 's top, raven rooked her on 

the, 25 
Chimney-sweepers, as, 103 
Chin, cheek or, 91 

close-buttoned to the, 183 

compared to that was next her, 226 

under her, 30 
China 'crost the Bay, 252 

fall, though, 362 

silk, some marrowy crapes of, 364 

vessels, or when rich, 362 
Chinee, 50 
Chinese, 50 

Chiney's mended, the sooner the, 260 
Cnink, for he made the guineas, 183 

to keep the, 92 
Chintz, let a charming, 75 
Chips, never an axe had seen their, 343 
Chirped as peart as ever you see, 404 
Chirping in the nest, the young birds 
are, 469 

on my kitchen hearth, 175 
Chirps, in age the cricket, 470 
Chisel rings, quickly the sharp, 410 
Chiselled, upon the tomb be, 329 
Chivalry, 50 

her beauty and her, 334 
Chloroformed into a better world, 45 1 
Choice, and in my, 329 

in rotten apples, small, n 

love is not in our, 86 

of a confidant, I will make a better, 
3 

what heart can doubt, 8 s 

while he doth make his, 273 
Choir, 50 

led earth 's most happy, 244 

sings, and the sweet, 264 
Choke as much as possible, chew and, 40 
Choler, so 

Choleric word, but a, 43 
Choose aright, and, 89 

between the two, I cannot, 117 

but hear, cannot, 172 

but weep, I cannot, 438 

debate which of the two to, 430 

executors, let's, 117 

not half a kiss to, 243 

'tain't for me to, 321 

their place of rest, where to, 462 

they are slaves who will not, 368 

why I rather, 103 
Choosing, two pleasures for your, 306 
Chord, si 

in melancholy, but has its, 257 

of self, smote the, 241 
Chords, smote on all the, 241 
Chortled in his joy, he, 118 
Chorus, was ready, 209 
Chose to Congriss, when one's, &o 
Chosen, the less is always to be, 116 



Chowder-kettle, 51 

Christ, 51 

above, faith in the, 242 
ain't a-going to be too hard, 104 
in Heaven, forgiven by, 366 
in the name of, 242 
is a God, if Jesus, 196 
is a man, if Jesus, 196 
draws near the birth of, 23 
our Saviour was born, Jesus, 51 
the Saviour died, who in, 220 
was born, 225 

went agin war an' pillage, thought, 
43i 

Christ-Church bells, oh, the merry, 23 

Christendom, any summer house in, 
399 
is an armed camp, 42 
never a man in, 119 

Christian, 51 

blood, one drop of, 134 

charity, rarity of, 182 

England, a labourer in, 208 

example, by, 197 

faithful man, a, 77 

if a Jew wrong a, 197 

I hate him for he is a, 421 

perfectly like a, 265 

scion, as surely as I am a, 393 

still a sad, good, 330 

the true, is the true citizen, 54 

work, if this, 451 

wrong a Jew, if a, 197 

Christians, 51 

in converting Jews to, 310 
want, so many, 188 

Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, 365 

Christtnas, 51—52 
at the season of, 48 
holiday, keeping their, 265 

Christmas-eve, strangely falls our, 181 

Christ 's righteousness, all had put on, 
220 

Chronicle, his own, 320 
small beer, and, 138 

Chuck him out, the brute, 410 

Chunk of old red sandstone, a, 350 

Church, 52-53 

and King, for, 383 
and mart, press too close in, 220 
and state, than be true to, 213 
and yard are full of seamen 's 

graves, 355 
below the hill, 23 
for the cause, for the, 19 
high on the roof of the, 314 
in Dublin town, he built a, 348 
is a little heaven below, 312 
Militant, to be the true, 329 
steeple, bells, and all, 133 
the aisles of the ancient, 464 
the holy, 342 

where bells have knolled to, 23 
with his presence glowed, 87 
without a bishop, a, 59 



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Index 



Church-bell rings, where the, 419 
Church-door, nor so wide as a, 189 
Church-doors, because outside, 217 
Churches, in playhouses than in, 398 
Church-going bell, sound of the, 22 
Church-tower, beside a grey, 224 
Church-way paths to glide, in the, 282 
Churchyard mould, verge of the, 157 

sod, beneath the, 108 

stone, some lie beneath the, 146 

to the, a pauper is going, 298 
Churchyards yawn, when, 282 
Chymist, fiddler, statesman, 114 
Cider, 53 
Cigar, 53 

give me a, 408 

so I have my, 339 
Cigar-box, 53 

Cimmerian desert, in dark, 85 
Cincinnatus of the West, the, 434 
Cinder wench and the white-handed 

lady, 21 
Cinders, ashes, dust, is, 235 

doth burn the heart to, 298 
Cipher too, he could write and, 206 
Circle, 53 

close in firm, 102 

of the earth, perish from the, 276 

the world around, let it, 152 
Circles the earth, 112 
Circumstance allows, does the best 
his, 24 

in the fell clutch of, 28 

pride, pomp and, 125 

the lie with, the sixth, 218 
Circular, no sign that it was, 106 
Circulation, the stock of your lies in, 

82 
Circumlocution, 54 
Cis, the downright loving of pretty, 

203 
Citadel, a towered, 56 
Cite Scripture, the devil can, 353 
Cities, far from gay, 68 

proud, not, 385 

seven, warred for Homer, 183 
Citizen, 54 

before man made us, 259 
City, and the first, 64 

as is usual in our, 92 

full, near a whole, 182 

of Cologne, doth wash your, 58 

of kites and crows, 43 

through the centre of every town 
or, 15 
City 's rout, tolls out above the, 264 
Civet, 54 
Civic, 54 
Civil, 54 

be, 87 

discord flow, effects from, 93 

feuds, a land rent with, 420 

leer, assent with, 7 1 

or over, 324 

right, law an' order, honour, 212 

sort of lie, the most, 2 19 



Civility, I see a wild, 364 

use all the observance of, 372 
Civilization does git forrid, 431 

the fly-wheel in modern, 55 
Civilized man cannot live without 

cooks, 63 
Civilizes, 54 

Clad, the naked every day he, 274 
Claim his wage, yet, 248 
Claims, a thousand, to reverence, 323 

himself a sole exclusive heaven, 176 

of long descent, 148 
Clamours, immortal Jove's dread, 125 
Clan, among such a, 247 

the last of its, 342 
Clang, begins the clash and, 275 

of bell and roar of gun, 23 
Clanging, 54 

Clap hands and a bargain, 18 
Clapped their chapped hands, 43 
Clapper, tongue is the, 174 
Clapper-clawing, 54 
Claps her wings, she, 210 

the gate behind thee, 148 
Claret, 55 

is the liquor for boys, 34 
Clash and clang, begins the, 275 

and the shout, the, 136 
Clashed and hammered from a hun- 
dred towers, 284 
Clasp, and clasp it with a, 263 

a sainted maiden, it shall, 246 

something with passion, 48 

the hand of such as Marmion, 97 
Clasped the phantoms, I, 302 
Clasps the earth, the sunlight, 204 
Class, in the same, 309 

them separately, that it is difficult 

Classes, 55 

her noblest work she, 211 
Classic, 55 

Classical dish, an ancient, 96 
Clause, a servant with this, 102 
Claw, in a wile-cat's, 212 
Clay, 55 

and made of the same, 201 

an oozy couch of, 8 

a pit of, for to be made, 303 

around, rank grass overhead and 
damp, 229 

bleeding and aching in the potter 's 
hand, 107 

choosing sweet, 179 

dead and turned to, 421 

growing coarse to sympathize with, 
56 

if we are only as the potter 's, 107 

in, shovel the, 103 

to bless the turf that wraps their, 34 

touched the lifeless, 27 
Clay-cold heads, ye whose, 298 
Claymore with bayonet clashing, 431 
Clean, 55 

and decent, . . . the politician who 
is, 310 



Index 



519 



Clean 

from my hand, 169 

hearth, a, a clear fire, 175 

hearth and a clear fire, 175 

the palm is hardly, 36 

these hands ne'er be, 169 

will never make one's self, 373 
Cleaned out the town, he had, 350 
Cleanliness, 55 

Cleanse the stuffed bosom, 263 
Cleansing my streams, 247 
Clear, a conscience, 61 

all doctrine plain and, 95 

and cool, 419 

as a whistle, as, 440 

at a single bound, I'll, 152 

fire, a, a clean hearth, 17s 

fire, a clean hearth and a, 175 

the way, jingle, jingle, 23 

the way, men of action, 225 

though deep yet, 84 
Cleared, all debts are, 82 

some great truth, 91 

the harbour, 359 
Clearer one never was seen, a, 348 
Clears not without a storm, so foul a 

sky, 388 
Cleave alway, to him will I, 196 

the wood, 207 
Cleaves a pathway through the strife, 
39° 

cleft for me, rock of ages, 340 

with the blind bow-boy's butt- 
shaft, 118 
Clergy, 55 

Clever, let who will be, 374 
Clicked behind the door, clock that, 295 
Clicking, silence at last the, 403 
Client still will be, such, 184 
Climb, 55 

feels the soul within him, 143 

hills of seas, 400 

his knees, or, 175 

spurs them to, 46 

the tree, Zaccheus he did, 470 

to eminence, kings, 202 

upward, will cease or else, 464 
Climber-upward turns his face, 7 
Clime adored, in every, 127 

in some brighter, 220 

the cold in, 233 

through many a, 328 
Climes and starry skies, cloudless, 430 
Cling to thy home, 182 
Clink, let me the cannikin, 100 
Clip him, love will not, 4 
Cloak around him, with his martial, 
433 

that covers all human thoughts, a, 

, . 369 
t is not alone my inky, 448 

who 'twas that nimmed a, 306 
Clock, 55-56 

and some blamed the, 348 

back, put the, 1 1 1 

but a, 390 



Clock 

does strike by algebra, 6 

tells of a life to be, 280 

the varnished, 295 

was too slow, or the, 348 
Clocks, our brains are seventy-year, 33 
Clock-setter, old Time the, 407 
Clod, become a kneaded, 90 
Cloister, 56 
Close against the sky, were, 331 

and like a lily her life did, 105 

as truly loves on to the, 393 

behind him tread, 128 

each evening sees it, 410 

his eyes, to, 86 

in firm circle, 102 

intestine shock and furious, 54 

lived she at its, 105 

my mind, could I so, 263 

of an angel's psalm, like the, 374 

one stands up, 312 

up his eyes, 80 

the gates are mine to, 276 

the shutters fast, 116 

wish our happy life to, 89 
Close-buttoned to the chin, 183 
Closed her bright eye, 142 

her quiet eyelids, 105 

in deadly fight, the soul has, 377 

in her, a thousand claims to rever- 
ence, 323 

the door, and, 221 

thy dying eyes were, 139 
Closer walk with God, 155 
Closest kept, burns most of all, 131 
Closet, a private, is to me, 318 
Closing eye requires, the, 35 
Cloth, with the scarlet, of her weav- 
ing, 451 
Clothed in white, from that chamber, 
55 

knowing her household are, 45 1 
Clothes a wantonness, kindles in, 364 

gars auld, 270 

meat, fire and, 336 

were loved, women not, 456 

when he put on his, 274 
Clotho, spin, 380 
Cloud, 56 

a fast-flying, 269 

can o'ercast, the smile that no, 31 

is scattered, when the, 209 

nor speck, nor stain, 268 

stooping through a fleecy, 268 

sunshine, storm and, 141 

takes all away, a, 240 

than sun, there is n't more, 393 

the thickest, earth ever stretched, 
159 

where ish de lofely golden, 297 

without a breeze, a wing, a, 368 
Cloudiness, of storm and, 119 
Cloudless climes and starry skies, 430 
Clouds, 56 

above, or the, 409 

are my minions, the, 284 



520 



Index 



Clouds 

beyond the, 209 

down from the, 187 

hide them, or in, 408 

in vain, embracing, 369 

left a paradise of, 353 

looks in the, 7 

o'ercast thy purpose, have, 391 

of glory, trailing, 25 

on earth or in the, 377 

sees God in, 176 

to soar again, through rolling, 106 

were rent asunder, 26 

would break, never doubted, 337 
Cloudy, all quiet, 43 s 
Cloven in vain, not a worm is, 160 
Clover, and kissing was, 240 
Clown, master of lord and, 103 

thou art mated with a, 189 
Cloy the appetites they feed, 5 

the hungry edge, 191 

the sweetest meats the soonest, 423 
Clubs typical of strife, 88. 
Clung into a kiss, 204 
Cluster, woes, 448 
Clusters, murdered them in, 372 
Clutch, denying to his frantic, 115 

of circumstance, in the fell, 28 

thee, let me, 70 
Coach, rascals in the, 417 
Coaches, 56 

Coal that must be cooled, 4 
Coals adrift a-deck, all the, 215 

and rice, with handfuls of, 175 

and the burning, 378 

call the devil over his own, 347 

'e '11 be squattin' on the, 395 

milk, 44 
Coarse, 56 
Coat, 57 

for a riband to stick in his, 336 

thet sets well her?., a, 60 

was red, his, 87 

with a gentleman in a black, 416 
Coats, rigged out in their swaller-tail, 

Coats -of -arms, is worth a hundred, 246 
Cobweb through, break one, 353 
Cobwebs, 57 

faster than gnats in, 168 
Cock, 5 7 

a blow, but give the, 283 

crew, as the, 77 

till the first, 13 s 

to crow like a, 239 

crows, the, 283 
Cockle, 57 

Code of marriage, in the modern, 253 
Codeless myriad of precedent, the, 214 
Coffee, 57 
Coffin is shielded, the, 317 

my heart is in the, 1 74 
Cohorts were gleaming, his, 14 
Coil, this mortal, 98 
Coin, and finally a current, 369 

my heart, I had rather, 267 



Coin new words, to, 379 

or counterfeit new words, he could, 
458 
Coinage of your brain, 33 
Coins, authors like, 14 

express, even its minted, 157 

like these, for, 265 
Coin-weights shut, two eyes with, 208 
Cold, 57 

again, and straight is, 209 

as any stone, as, 388 

as snow, 74 

bitter, taunting truths, 122 

decree, hot temper leaps o'er a, 33 

find one out in the, 64 

hard and, 157 

in clime, the, 233 

it is very, 5 

nor care, there's neither, 215 

of pain, darkness, and, 78 

poor Tom's a-, 410 

that tempers heat, the, 369 

the day in, 189 

the fire that warmeth, 369 

the soup gets, 211 

the weather being, 120 

thy blood is, 29 

till the sun grows, 240 

when yule is, 132 

without, that comes from, 433 
Colder thy kiss 296 
Coldly turns away, all, 125 

would I shape reply, 274 
Coliseum, 57 
Collar, 58 

grows right round his neck, a, 60 
Collectors, quite an army of, 92 
College fanes, heard once more in, 291 
Collop of my flesh, 134 
Coin there was never a knight, from 

Trier to, 221 
Cologne, 58 
Colonel, 58 
Colossus, 58 
Colour, 58 

and form, let thy future give, 127 

the wars for my, 301 

to mark the changing, 293 
Colours, 58 

out, until water takes their, 5 

seen by candle-light, 468 
Colt, 58 

who is wise, the, 253 
Columbia, 58 

she an', in 
Column, 59 

throws up a steamy, 116 
Ccnnb, 59 

have formed the, 330 
Combat deepens, 152 

nerveth his arm for life's, 410 
Combination, a, and a form, 250 
Combine, when friendship, love and 

peace, 442 
Come, 59 

again, chaos is, 239 



Index 



521 



Come 

avoid what is to, 60 

away, kiss her and leave her, 55 

away, Sister Spirit, 170 

back, could find out when to, 140 

back from the echoless shore, 340 

back, for those who will never, 132 

back, he'll ne'er, 168 

back, wish to, 168 

back to me, Douglas, 97 

back to me, will never, 161 

beat your pate and fancy wit will, 

447 
bravely onward, and, 232 
from the ends of the earth, though 

they, 391 
from the heart, all offences, 289 
from, where did you, 16 
gentle spring, ethereal mildness, 382 
his wit invites you by his looks to, 

447 
hither, lads, and hearken, 74 
home to men 's business and bosoms, 

40 
in, come in, callin' sof,' 358 
it may, as come it will, 38 
like shadows, so depart, 358 
look brighter when we, 438 
men may, 116 
night, end, day, 282 
no more, once departed, 334 
of nothing, nothing will, 285 
not when I am dead, 76 
oh for yesterdays to, 468 
one, come all, 136 
out, 't will hardly, 214 
out of the west, young Lochinvar is, 

229 
over again, can never, 442 
the ides of March are, 190 
the melancholy days are, 257 
then let it, 46 
they come, 136 
to good, cannot, 159 
to judgment, a Daniel, 72 
to light, truth will, 417 
to me, for any calling, 365 
to my heart again, 340 
to thee, from the desert I, 86 
to their own, the people will, 301 
to this favour she must, 468 
to thy God in time, 155 
to you, my lad, whistle and I '11, 440 
unto these yellow sands, 349 
what's to, 239 
when it will come, 80 
when you do call for them, 381 
with a ring, pray, 338 
ye in peace here, or come ye in war, 

299 
you back, you British soldier, 252 
Comer, by the poorest, 177 

grasps in the, 167 
Comers must go, when such, 338 
Comes abroad, every foul bird, 332 
again, and it never, 470 



Comes at last, death that, 79 

in the light, 224 

something wicked this way, 404 

slowly up this way, spring, 382 

sooner by white hairs, superfluity, 
393 

to do and say, what he, 313 

swelling like a turkey-cock, here he, 
418 

to the worst, when the worst, 464 

with eating, appetite, n 

your book forth, when, 30 
Comest, darling boy, thou, 18 
Comfort, 59 

and command, to warn, to, 454 

and for happiness, for, 125 

comes a man of, 93 

flows, from ignorance our, 190 

the weaker vessel, 68 

to my age, be, 326 
Comfortable man, a, 32 
Comforted, must I be, 384 
Comfortless for lack of plenishing, 96 
Comic muse, the subject of the, 234 
Coming, a good time, 159 

an eye will mark our, 438 

butter, tired wench and, 429 

events cast their shadows before, 
358 

he is, 351 

hither, even as their, 157 

of the Lord, 153 

rider, those who wait the, 429 

she's, 264 

welcome the, speed the going guest, 
167 

the wonderful days a-, 74 

through the rye, 203 

yet, it's, 38 
Command, applause of listening sen- 
ates to, 11 

and some, 55 

at Heaven's, 37 

gave up their lives at the Queen's, 
373 

man to, 454 

to obey, to endure, 113 

more invitation than, 108 

my heart and me, that shall, 358 

success, not in mortals to, 392 

to warn, to comfort and, 454 
Commandment on the pulse of life, 86 

thy, all alone shall live, 331 
Commandments, 59 
Commands all light, 127 

us, when he, 357 
Commas and points, 67 
Commendable, nor more, 161 
Comment, every nice offence should 
bear his, 289 

one other, is necessary, 291 
Commerce, 59 

and honest friendships, 6 

let wealth and, 284 
Commit, pretty follies that them- 
selves, 243 



52' 



Index 



Commit the oldest kind of sins, 367 
Commits his body, 189 
Committee, sort of managing, 92 
Commodities, an' such grasy, 16 
Commodity, I will turn diseases to, 
301 

there are one, 357 
Common, 59 

a case that 's still too, 449 

because 'tis so, 16 

bliss or woe, give me one, 409 

grief, that 'tis a, 1 

law, the ... is nothing but rea- 
son, 327 

make it too, 160 

men, the roll of, 59 

men, to the crowd of, 81 

my lips are no, 227 

natures, 'tis the same with, 280 

realm shall be in, 130 

selfishness, too high for, 159 

sense, rich in saving, 43 

tall, I am more than, 397 

that loss is, 1 
Commonwealth, 59 

set up an ordinary, 266 

to serve the, 386 
Compact of fire, love is a spirit all, 240 

sweet, and the, 253 
Companies of men of genius, there are, 

387 
Companions, all her lovely, 342 

I have had, 307 

slept, while their, 177 

thou'dst unfold, that such, 439 
Company, 60 

and steal out of your, 401 

better, better air, 359 

but a shirt and a half in all my, 361 

say to yourself in, 85 

shall bear him, 176 

than saved in vulgar, 149 
Comparable to the standing upon the 

vantage-ground, 415 
Comparisons, 60 
Compared, is not to be, 112 

to that was next her chin, 226 
Compass, 60 

fro roundel to, 53 

though a wide, 159 
Compassed by the inviolate sea, 354 
Compassion in your hearts, heavenly, 

75 
Compassionate, Christ the, 242 
Compelled, and we ourselves, 289 
Compels, solemn thought their mon- 
ody, 410 
Competency lives longer, 393 
Complain, does to the moon, 292 

I heard him, 371 

of thirst, in midst of water I, 435 

writhe but not, 233 
Complaining, work without, 207 
Complete, is not, 253 
Completeness, what she knew not, of, 
204 



Complexion, 60 

whose fresh, 240 
Complexions are, soft as our, 453 
Complicate, how wonderful is man, 

how, 251 
Complies against his will, he that, 290 
Compose a tragedy, and some com- 
pose a rondo, 146 
Composed, thy decent limbs, 139 
Compost, do not spread the, 60 
Composture stolen, by a, 402 
Compound for sins they are inclined 
to, 366 

o'er the flavoured, 349 

of oddity rare, 197 

of two cardinal virtues, 315 
Compounded, look how, 78 
Compounds, than these poor, 158 
Comprehend all vagrom men, you 
shall, 422 

not, the good they, 156 
Comprehends, more than cool reason 

ever, 243 
Compromise, 60 
Compulsion, give no man a reason 

upon, 327 
Compute, we partly may, 172 
Comrade, new-hatched unfledged, 146 
Comrades, and went with his, 353 

chase e'en now the fliers, your, 391 

of the war, his, 433 
Concave and beyond, Hell 's, 46 
Conceal the mind, to, 210 
Concealed, from man, 245 

in yon smoke, 391 
Concealment, but let, 298 
Conceding, nature and custom agree 

in, 455 
Conceit, profound, of wisdom, grav- 
ity, 291 

sell us his petty, 67 

so to his own, 307 
Conceive, a heart to, 173 
Concentrating, all, like rays, 204 
Concentred all in self, 65 
Concerns himself, where it, 368 
Concert move, in, 204 
Concludes her noblest song, 104 
Conclusion, 60 
Concord never broke, gentle, 411 

of sweet sounds, with, 273 
Concur to general use, 117 
Condemn, both the golden mean alike, 
237 

it, is to, 191 

to slaughter I, 305 
Condemned himself, has, in a word, 321 
Condiment that bites too soon, dis- 
trust the, 349 
Condition, on any one, 274 

rise, honour and shame from no, 184 
Conditions blend, how sweetly those, 
242 

govern our, 127 

our new, 8 

our soft, and our hearts, 456 



Index 



523 



Conduct is n't all your fancy paints, if 
our, 349 

they must stand or fall, 202 

under them, but for his, 298 
Conference a ready man, 326 
Confess, 60 

I 'm afraid of, that I, 283 
Confessed a flush, the east hath, 225 
Confidant, a better choice of a, 397 
Confidence, 60 
Confident to-morrows, and, 48 

they erred, nor am I, 139 
Confined, cabined, cribbed, 41 

from home, 186 

their wishes all, 68 

to fast in fires, 380 
Confines shall in these, 33s 
Confirmation strong as proofs of holy 

writ, 19s 
Confiscate unto the state, 134 
Conflagrations, responsible for the, 372 
Conflict, 60 

Confounded, confusion worse, 344 
Confront the visage of offence, to, 260 
Confusion, all else, 454 

calamity and, 41 

understood the shouting and, 433 

worse confounded, 344 
Confute, jarring sects, 162 
Congenial, 60 

Congregation, has the largest, 87 
Congregations poor and small, 217 
Congress, 60 
Connected them with another, which 

have, 356 
Conned by rote, 15 
Conquer, 61 

again and again, we'll, 286 

America, you cannot, 8 

go lose or, 150 

like Douglas, 97 

love who run away, only they, 234 

we fight and we, 130 
Conquered, 61 

at last, the fever called living is, 229 

he, and he fell, 130 

man, and has died a, 321 
Conqueror, he the true ruler and, 410 

the proud foot of a, 112 
Conquerors, a lean fellow beats all, 61 
Conquers agony, but, 152 

evermore, justice, 199 

every wrong, peace unweaponed, 
300 

reason still, the ruling passion, 297 
Conquest and subjugation, of foreign, 
112 

'tis a firmer, 33s 
Conquests she but o'er herself, no, 452 
Conscience, 61—62 

a good, is my bail, 318 

a still and quiet, 299 

be honest and clean, 55 

chills her, now, 330 

corrupted with injustice, 12 

of her worth, and the, 457 



Conscience 

of the king, catch the, 306 

pain, aye to the, 390 

slept, while, 215 

to our dealing, bend our, 386 

was strong, 183 

we may live without, 63 
Consecrates each grave, it, 157 
Consent, 62 

of the governed, from the, 161 

to be his bride, gin ye '11, 364 
Consented, whispering, ' 'I will ne'er 

consent," 62 
Consents, my poverty but not my 
will, 311 

to death, brow, 152 
Consideration, another half-hour 's 

good, 210 
Considering, 62 
Consistency, 62 
Consort, and his, 379 
Constable, 62 

of the watch, for the, 422 
Constancy in wind, hope, 67 

lives in realms above, 412 
Constant, 62 

never, to one thing, 83 

then, if thou wilt be, 124 

too, I will be, 340 
Constitutes a state, what, 385 
Constitution which they have estab- 
lished, 289 

a higher law than the, 213 
Constitutions, man is more than, 213 
Constrained to love thee, no 
Construction, a Pickwickian, 303 
Consume, corruption may our frame, 
377 . 

the thing that feeds, 132 
Consumed the midnight oil, 215 
Consuming element, burning and, 4 
Consummation have, quiet, 163 
Consumption, discontent, the noble- 
man's, 93 

of the purse, 322 
Consum'st thyself in single life, that 

thou, 442 
Contagion to this world, 282 
Contain, and nourish, 118 
Contaminate our fingers, 36 
Contempt, will grow more, 238 
Contend for Homer dead, 183 

to the uttermost, let a man, 318 
Contending nations know, let fierce, 93 
Content, 62 

a mind, 262 
" farewell, 125 

to sit by little fires, 132 

with few will be ever, 205 

with poverty, my soul I arm, 311 
Contented, slaves howe'er, 143 

well-breakfasted juryman, 92 

why then are you not, 433 
Contentment, 62 

springs, from health, 172 
Contents us long, nothing, 381 



524 



Index 



Contest, let fools, 161 

was unequal, the, 297 
Contests rise from trivial things, what 

mighty, 414 
Contiguity of shame, some boundless, 

229 
Continuate goodness, untirable and, 

160 
Continue, if God wills that it, 199 
Continuous unbroken strain, with one, 

112 
Contract, a debt he never did, 82 

of her marriage, the, 407 
Contracting parties meet, till the high, 

253 
Contradiction still, woman 's at best a, 

453 
Contraries, dhrames always go by, 99 
Contrary with me, ev'rythink goes, 

230 
Contrite heart, an humble and a, 139 
Contrive, a head to, 173 

nor let thy soul, 270 

some kind of a lever, would only, 
403 

wicked custom so, 140 
Contrived by man, nothing yet been, 

192 
Control, gladden and, 384 

his, stops with the shore, 288 

such base, 262 

that never brooked, 367 
Controversies, decide all, 329 
Contumely, the proud man's, 323 
Convenience next suggested, 279 

snug, 142 
Conveniency of every kind, better, 359 
Convent bells, chiming of these, 222 
Conversation, 62 

may upset a freight- train of, 321 
Conversations, 62 
Converse and live with ease, 107 

formed by thy, 162 

talking is not always to, 397 
Converses more with the buttock, 282 
Converted, that loam whereto he was, 

Converting Jews to Christians, in, 310 
Convey, the wise it call, 386 
Conveyed, the opening bud to heaven, 

Conviction, flashing, 314 
Convinced at sight, whose truth, 447 
Coo, dove, to thy married mate, 97 
Cook, 62 

pantler, butler, 71 
Cookery, 62 
Cooks, 63 
Cool, so calm, day so, 73 

than my heart, 264 
Cooled, coal that must be, 4 

warmed and, by the same winter 
and summer, 197 
Coolly, we talked of love as, 241 
Cools, till a husband, 189 
Cope, beneath that awful, 115 



Copied there, youth and observation, 
^ .331 
Copies, 63 
Copper, 63 

brass and a' that, on, 249 

wire, others rather resemble, 276 
Coppers on the railroad tracks, boys 

that put, 321 
Copy and book, 263 

leave the world no, 21 
Coral, true, needs no painter 's brush, 

152 
Cord however fine, can stretch a, 389 

he knows each, 172 
Cordial gives, the dewy, 10 1 

old and rare, a, 78 

one, in this melancholy vale, 402 

that sparkled for Helen, the, 100 

to the soul, 269 

wink-tippling, 397 
Cords will break, and then the, 173 
Core below, up from the burning, 24 

of heat, to make a solid, 230 
Corinth, 63 

Coriolanus' exile, hooting at, 43 
Cork, the sub-editor at, 294 
Cormorant, 63 
Corn in chaff, 67 

receiving chaff for, 103 

Ruth among the fields of, 120 

so take the, 193 

that is ketched with mouldy, 206 

two ears of, 162 
Corner to die in, for a, 176 
Corners of the world, doth belie all, 
368 

of the world in arms, 112 
Cornish lads can do, shall understand 

what, 63 
Cornishnien, 63 

Corns out, new ones hunt folks 's, 161 
Coronets, kind hearts are more than, 

148 
Corporal sufferance, in, 80 
Corporation, shocking, as for our, 256 
Corporations, 64 
Corpse, disthroned, 80 

of public, the dead, 340 

the earth upon her, 388 

to the rampart we hurried, as his, 
102 
Corpses, three, lay out on the shining 

sands, 132 
Corrupt a saint, able to, 347 

my air, that do, 69 

what plea so tainted and, 213 
Corrupted currents, in the, 289 

the youth, most traitorously, 317 

with injustice, 12 
Corrupteth and embaseth it, wanton 

love, 23 
Corruption, 64 

he has touched, 36 

may our frame consume, 377 

wealth, vice, 18 

which rank, 106 



Index 



525 



Corsair 64, 

Corse, thou, dead, 268 

Cost, learned at a heavy, 117 

nothin', wich don't, 357 

price, a little below, 175 

too much, who. 202 
Costly bales, dropping down with, 59 

thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
11 
Costs a meal, and the walk that, 430 

thy life, that, 448 
Cottage porch, at my, 162 

the poorest man may in his, 44 
Cottle, O Amos' Phoebus! what a 

name, 274 
Couch as thine, no such, 334 

more magnificent, 334 

of clay, or an oozy, 8 

of ever- welcome rest, the, 333 

the drapery of his, 227 
Cough and phthisic, helps the head- 
ache, 445 
Coughing in the street, for, 322 
Coughs, 64 

catarrhs, to find out agues, 306 
Could not, dared not answer no, 283 

not, would not, durst not play, 306 
Council, great in, 43 

the hidings of his, 154 
Councils might not want vigour, that 

their, 82 
Counsel, 64 

in his face, 85 
Count ever so much, 178 

how many sands, 205 

our spoons, let us, 425 

their chickens ere th 're hatched, 48 

time by heart-throbs, we should, 
227 
Counted two-and-seventy stenches, 

387 
Countenance and profit, to receive, 318 

cannot lie, 117 

more in sorrow than in anger, 375 
Counter,_ the polished, 361 

throwing . . . goods on the, 15 
Countercheck quarrelsome, the, the 

fifth, 218 
Counterfeit, dread clamours, 12s 

fair Portia 's, 303 

new words, coin or, 458 

presentment, the, 303 

the deep tragedian, I can, 307 
Counters, words are wise men 's, 459 
Countless price, a gem of, 73 
Country, 64-65 

but it's saviour of 'is, 410 

call you, hear your, 94 

claims our fealty, our, 259 

foreign troop was landed in my, 8 

heart, thought to break a, 174 

his first best, 182 

I tremble for my, 414 

lie abroad for the good of his, 7 

loss, to do our, 185 

messes, herbs and other, 303 



Country 

more essential service to his, 162 

of the free, in the, 469 

round was wasted, the, 425 

that land thy, 182 

the undiscovered, 79 

they touch our, 368 

to shed his blood for his, 383 

woe awaits a, 398 
Countrymen, fall was there, my, 121 

first in the hearts of his, 132 

friends, Romans, 341 
Country's blood, guiltless of his, 168 

flag is at home, his, 133 

glory fast, for his, 58 

gut her soul, Earth's biggest, 277 

life, to save his, 432 

pride, their, 300 

thirst, to quench a, 248 

wishes blest, by all their, 34 
Couple, fond, 376 
Coupled and inseparable, still we 

went, 224 
Courage, 65 

but screw your, 119 

can avert, that strength and, 189 

man! the hurt cannot be much, 189 

never abandon the good soldier, 373 

never to submit or yield, 231 

party, is party expediency, 297 

rise, make your, 18 

to forget, or, 330 

true hearts, 48 

up, to bear his, 440 _ 
Courageous, to show itself, 68 
Course, directing its, 102 

great nature 's second, 370 

how gloriously her gallant, 436 

in his silent, 406 

is run, to that whose, 392 

it is the wisest, 3 

lad, young blood must have its, 469 

of empire, the, 109 

of human events, when in the, 356 

of love, of my whole, 396 

of nature is the art of God, 13 

of one revolving moon, 114 

of true love never did run smooth, 
238 

others may take, what, 217 

the desp'rat'st the wisest, 86 

time rolls his, 406 

to steer, the wise, 91 
Coursed one another, the big round 

tears, 398 
Courses, like ships they steer their, 335 
Court, 65 

awards it, the, 134 

of heaven, the livery of the, 228 

refused it in the open, 199 

the camp, the grove, 237 

was pure, her, 323 
Courtesies, 65 

in doing, 14s 
Courtesy, 65 

the rules of, 455 



526 



Index 



Courtesy 

use the devil himself with, 88 

well-placed words of glozing, 459 
Courtier, 66 

Courtier 's, the, soldier 's, scholar 's, 263 
Courtiers, our, were good, 22 
Courting somebody, somebody's, 373 
Courtly sword, from a, 42 
Courts his love, as I do thee, 254 

not starred and spangled, 385 

of heaven, before the, 313 
Courtship, love and matrimony, of, 
255 

pleasant the snaffle of, 253 
Cousin, and everybody's, 319 

selfishness, love's, 356 

Sleep, and not his, 81 
Cousinship, will virtue, and all return, 



her guilt to, 136 

my head now, to, 68 

serves as paste and, 80 

up the embers, stays to, 108 
Covercle, broad as a, 53 
Covers close, strained the dusky, 263 

out of the night that, 376 
Covet honour, a sin to, 185 
Coward, 66 

conscience, how dost thou, 61 

shaked like a, 277 

nor slave, find neither, no 

stands aside, while the, 34 

the gift of a, 323 

thou seem'st a, 422 
Cowards, 66 

crave, sech peace ez only, 299 

have, as many other mannish, 394 

of us all, 61 

sots or slaves or, 113 

thet tarries long in hands o', 143 

use, word that, 6i_ 
Cower, I will not shrink or, 392 
Cowslip 's bell, in a, 21 
Cozened twice, idiots only may be, 205 
Coxcomb, and your ploody, 216 
Crab-tree and old iron rang, hard, 405 
Crack of timbers, with a, 99 

through every hole and, 132 
Cracked and growled, it, 190 
Cracking nuts, quarrel with a man for, 

322 
Crackling pile, nor, 155 
Cradle,_ England is the, 111 

if drink rock not his, 100 

is the starting-place, our, 221 

of the deep, in the, 84 

where it lies, 124 
Cradles rock us nearer to the tomb, 81 
Craft, 66 

on the line, the oldest, 346 

the queerest little, 73 
Crag, under the, 419 
Crags among, the rattling, 405 

at the foot of thy, 161 
Crammed rosin and pine, furnace, 346 



Crammed up, as would be, 336 

with heaven, earth 's, 153 
Cramps, rack thee with old, 2 
Cranmer 's at the stake, like, 169 
Cranks and wanton wiles, 196 
Crannied wall, flower in the, 135 
Crannies, pluck you out of the, 135 
Cranny, in every, 231 
Crapes of China silk, some marrowy, 

364 
Cravat, virtue may flourish in an old, 

171 
Crave the austere virtues, we, 185 

the more you, 100 

whatever mortals, 462 
Craving for more, I still shall be, 205 

in the souls of men, this restless, 
46 
Crawled and crept through life, 352 
Crawling foam, the cruel, 136 
Crazed, 66 

Crazy as a loon, 286 
Cream and mantle, do, 291 

vigilant as a cat to steal, 45 
Creation, a false, 70 

called the lords of the, 259 

moves, to which the whole, 322 

the tire of all, 188 
Creation's blot, creation's blank, 26 

dawn beheld, such as, 406 
Creature be repaid, from his helpless, 
82 

cringe to any mortal, 42 

dead, poor, speechless, 38 

drink, pretty, 10 1 

feels, each, 14 

he is a base and ignoble, 248 

I am a lone lorn, 230 

kills a reasonable, 30 

life-blood out of a frail young, 423 

no, owns it in the first degree, 284 

of earth, the poor, 135 

smarts so little, no, 137 

thet slow, 212 

was stirring, not a, 51 

what a glorious, 408 

why should every, 101 
Creature 's at his dirty work again, the, 

353 
Creatures are, see how frail these, 455 

breeds very valiant, in 

heaven from all, 127 

he serveth, the, 319 

how they envies us, poor, 388 

kings, and meaner, 186 

millions of spiritual, 381 

such unromantic, 259 

the meanest of his, 243 
Credit go, let the, 44 

his own lie, to, 219 

in being jolly, some, 198 

in that, there ain't much, 197 

it 's a watch that '11 do you, 434 

the dead corpse of public, 340 
Creditor severe, misfortune iike a, 265 
Credulous to false prints, 453 



Index 



527 



Creed, 66 

nor cursing, 155 _ 

of peace, profession of the, 42 

of slaves, the, 2", 9 

outworn, suckled in a, 293 
Creeds, and framed their iron, 155 

are with ivy o'ergrown, their, 446 

other, will rise, 330 

than in half the, 97 
Creep a little out, did, 1 29 

home, and take your place, 290 

past, and bade me, 78 
Creepeth o'er ruins old, that, 195 
Creeping like snail, 352 

nigher, as a lion, 301 

where no life is seen, 19s 
Creeps this petty pace, 411 
Crept in, the worms they, 463 

silently to rest, one by one, 333 
Crescent moon, waning, not the, 4 
Cressets, of burning, 277 
Crest and crowning of all good, the, 38 

behind the snow-white, 179 

gets himself another, 241 
Crests dancing, with all their white, 

436 
Crew, and as the cock, 77 

he was of that stubborn, 329 

the cock, 57 
Crews, an' all their, 299 
Cribbed, as if they'd, 347 

confined, cabined, 41 
Cricket, 66 

chirps, in age the, 470 
Crickets, 66 

cry, the, 83 
Cried aloud, I have not winced nor, 28 

" Ha, Ha," he, 342 
Cries amid the rout, 383 

protest to the judges, 188 

such hideous, 98 
Crime, 66 

fatal sources of misery and, 422 

forgive the, 406 

is it in heaven a, 236 

numbers sanctified the, 272 

the atrocious, of being a young man, 
469 

untold, price of many a, 157 

without a, 142 

worse than a, 28 
Crimes, and a thousand, 64 

are committed, how many, 217 

had left her woman still, the worst 
of, 449 

may reach the dignity of, 167 

men can cover, 119 

the register of the, 180 

till the foul, 380 
Crimson, a fuller, 241 

bars, forty flags with their, 134 

streak on ocean 's cheek, 73 
Cringe to any mortal creature, 42 
Cringing to sue me, come not, 392 
Crisis does divine, tell what, 306 

the, the danger is past, 229 



Crispian, 66 

Critic, 67 

Critical, 67 

Critic-dame, the, 30 

Critics and cold water, loathing, 308 

ev'n such small, 458 

make, or, 219 
Croak is loud, the raven 's, 184 
Croaked as she sate at her meal, the 

raven, 326 
Croesus' store, gives me wealthy, 402 
Cromwell, Charles the First his, 414 

guiltless of his country 's blood, 168 

I charge thee, 7 

see, 123 
Crook the pregnant hinges of the 

knee, 412 
Crooked lane, straight down the, 383 
Cropped, in fight is, 216 
Crops the flowery food, 27 
Cross, 67 

e'en though it be a, 278 

her hands humbly, 169 

him, I '11, 294 

my prayer, lest the devil, 87 

nearer leaving the, 278 

of England, 'neath the Red, no 

ours is the heaviest, 1 

over the river, let us, 333 

she wore, a sparkling, 197 

the threshold, his forces dare not, 44 

the Unknown water, 73 

to me, his thoughts that, 403 

with thine, my path might, 230 
Cross-bow, with my, 5 
Crossed, abhorent of a calculation, 161 

in hopeless love, 66 

in love, an oyster may be, 293 

in rest, two pale feet, 208 

to the farther side, who 've, 339 

with me, spirits twain have, 381 
Crosses, no forms or, 220 
Crossing the river, swap horses while, 

394 
Cross-questions, till with all their, 348 
Crossways, for things are running, 53 
Crotch-deep in the snow, 313 
Crow, 67 

make thee think thy swan a, 394 

the night-, 25 
Crowbar, straightened out for a, 188 
Crowbars loose the bulldog 's grip, 

only, 40 
Crowd, 67, 68 

all, 123 

of common men, calls ye to the, 8 1 
Crowd-drawing preacher, makes him 

the, 314 
Crowded, feast and your halls are, 129 
Crowds, and oft in, 274 
Crown, 68 

a fairer name than French, 332 

and a' that, not his, 248 

and beauty's flowery, 354 

and deck thee, I'll, 124 

and kingdom is, both, 262 



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Index 



Crown 

an emperor without his, 73 

better than his, 260 

his breeches cost him but a, 387 

his misery, then to, 317 

it, and, 108 

must tumble down, sceptre and, 103 

nearing gaining the, 278 

no, no cross, 67 

not the king 's, 260 

now wears his, 356 

of, of queen, 370 

of his head, from the, 196 

of life, death is the, 81 

of sorrow, sorrow's, 375 

of verdure weaves, her, 382 

ourselves with rosebuds, let us, 343 

the frost is my, 284 

to all the force of the, 44 

wedding is great Juno's, 437 
Crowner's quest law, 213 
Crowning fact, the, 144 

of all good, the crest and, 38 
Crowns all, the end, 109 

him victor glorified, 199 

murders on their, 90 
Crows, city of kites and, 43 

the cock, 283 
Crucified, till his Lord is, 34 
Cruel, 68 

and inconstant, 83 
Cruellest she alive, 21 
Cruelty to load a falling man, 121 
Crumbled before, they have, 387 
Crumbles on her rising bread, she 

breaks and, 465 
Crumping snows, and upon the, 207 
Cruse of oil, this, 12 
Crush it, avoid it or, 449 

of worlds, the, 191 

the tyrant, and, 385 

the wall, and, 387 
Crushed a flower, 149 

and some were, 35 

as odours, 191 

at Waterloo, the, 332 

by pain's resistless power, 175 

to earth, truth, 415 

when they are incensed or, 427 
Crust of bread and liberty, 217 

of bread and rags, a, 207 

when we share her wretched, 34 

with water and a, 235 
Crutch, 68 

Crutches, Time goes on, 407 
Cry, 68 

and no wool, all, 395 

Church, church, 52 

east and west, 242 

is still They come, 17 

let the nations fear our, 143 

liberty, when they, 217 

mew, be a kitten and, 205 

need a body, 203 

of battle rises, the, 19 

of curs, you common, 69 



Cry 

of defiance, a, 84 

of some strong swimmer, the bub- 
bling, 39s 

of startled sleepers, 99 

of that spectral host, the, 151 

out itself, Enough, 4 

raise ye no, 17 

she nor swooned nor uttered, 76 

the crickets, 83 

the spirit 's yearning, 88 

war is still the, 430 

will be, for ever the, 1 

with no language but a, 192 
Crying at the lock, 443 

for the light, an infant, 192 
Crystalline delight, twinkle with a, 23 
Cuba, light me another, 339 

stout, get me a, 53 
Cuckolds, what made them, 306 
Cucumbers, extracting sunbeams out 

of, 393 
Cuddle doon, bairnies, 16 
Cudgel thy brains no more, 33 
Cudgel 's of, know what wood a, 20 
Cultured and capable of sober thought, 

262 
Culverin 's signal. is fired, 63 
Cunning hand laid on, 21 

to thrive in, 88 

woman is a knavish fool, a, 452 
Cup, 68-69 

alone with your, 441 

each heart and each, 116 

drink of this, 100 

hand me. the, 78 

have drunk their, 333 

I sing, careless o'er my, 402 

leave a kiss but in the, 99 

life's enchanted, 220 

o'erflow the, 10 1 

of hot wine, a, 44s 

o' kindness, we '11 tak' a, 14 

one, to the dead all ready, 91 

was a fiction, her, 100 
Cupboard 's a storehouse, 16 
Cupid, 69 

might wander, wherever, 240 
Cupid 's name, to seal on, 336 
Cups freshly remembered, in their 
flowing, 275 

that cheer but not inebriate, 116 
Cur can lend three thousand ducats. 95 

would lick my hand, 169 
Curb a runaway young star, 9 

this cruel devil of his will, 213 
Curbed her bright career, 142 
Cure love with love, 88 

of souls, in the, 347 

the wise for, 172 

thine heart, wilt thou, 232 
Curfew, 69 

he begins at, 13 s 
Curious, it seemed so, 73 

art, with, 33 
Curled darlings of our nation, 72 



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529 



Curled, the least ringlet that, 339 
up on the floor, and, 350 

Curlier, his hair grew, 311 

Curls, Hyperion 's, 250J 

Current, 69 

of a woman 's will, turn the, 450 
of the soul, froze the genial, 301 
took 'em, the ignorant for, 458 

Currents turn awry, 61 

Curs, 69 

Curse, 69 

an oath to vent or, 345 
doing nothing was his, 285 
it hath the primal eldest, 272 
laid a swingeing long, 26 
my dog so, a heart to, 395 
of mankind, the common, 232 
of service, 'tis the, 315 
on all laws but those, 233 
to bless, to, 157 
upon his tongue, laid a, 283 

Cursed, 69 

alway, by man is, 366 

and tainted thing, was a, 143 

be he, 29 

be the social lies that warp us, 470 

its hour of birth, all that, 416 

with which our lives are, 339 

Curses dark, rigged with, 18 

deeper than the strong man, 413 
not loud but deep, 223 
on the spoiler's head, 157 

Curseth the warning bird, 319 

Cursing creed, nor, 15s 

Curtain, 69-70 

Curtains close, draw the, 80 
let fall the, 116 
round, drew my midnight, 167 

Curuck-coo, you love me and I love 
you, 235 _ _ 

Curve at yonder pig, turned up in 
scornful, 304 

Curves, last in kindly, 18 

Cushion and soft dean invite, 178 

Custard, and blaspheme, 322 

Custom, 70 

agree, nature and, 455 

always of the afternoon, 4 

holds, nature her, 399 

so contrive, wicked, 140 

stale her infinite variety, 5 

the ancient Goths had a wise, 82 

Customers, folks that want to be, 
266 
merchant over-polite to his, 15 
raising up a people of, 361 

Customs, 70 

Cut, 70 

a throat, ever scuttled ship or, 262 
beard of formal, 199 
diamonds, diamonds, 88 
loaf to steal a shive, of a, 43 s 
our names in big letters, to, 275 
out the purity of his, I, 321 
the halter, will come and, 254 
them down with my blast, I, 284 



Cut 

up what remains, women come out 

to, 373 
the string that holds those weights, 

403 
Cuts it quite, and, 96 

like cheese, whitewood that, 441 
Cutteth friendship al a'-two, a' tonge, 

412 
Cut-throat, dog, 147 
Cutting bread and butter, she was, 

439 
of it, in the, 134 
Cuttle bite his nails, when you see 

Ned, 273 
Cuttle 's aground, you may know Ned, 

273 
Cycle of Cathay, than a, 45 
Cygnet to this pale, faint swan, 273 
Cynic, 70 
Cynosure, 70 

Cynthia howls, while Ralph to, 282 
Czar, this emperor, this, 80 



D 



Dace, roach and, 32 

Dacian mother, there was their, 181 

Dagger, 70 

at the drawn, 191 
Daggers, 70 
Daggers-drawing, have always been 

at, 54 
Daguerreotype, the twenty-five-cent, 

124 
Daily burden for the back, 40 

do, what men, 259 

that we are dying, 79 
Daintier sense, hath the, 70 
Dainties that are bred in a book, 30 

to them, such, 360 
Dainty bits make rich the ribs, 298 
Daisies pied, meadows trim with, 256 
Daisy-blossom washed with still rains 

and, 224 
Dale, under the hawthorn in the, 307 
Dales and fields, 235 
Dalliance, 70 

silken, in 
Dam, chickens and their, 49 
Dame, 71 

that loves to rove, for, 344 

whare sits our sulky, sullen, 465 
Dames have had, the gentle, 450 

ye high, exalted, virtuous, 142 
Damn, 71 

his treacherous flatteries, 259 

itself, the world would, 198 

the rest, not to, 376 
Damnation, 71 

to sip, calls it, 226 
Damnations, 71 
Damned be him that first cries, 214 

beside a duke, genteelly, 149 

better be, than mentioned not at all, 
123 



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Index 



Damned first, I will see thee, 367 

in a fair wife, almost, 382 

to everlasting fame, 123 

to fame, 123 

many an old host that I know is, 290 

minutes tells he o'er, what, 243 

souls, givin' drink to poor, 395 

villain, smiling, 426 
Damning those they have no mind to, 

366 
Damp, wherever the ground was a 

little, 437 
Damsel that 's merry, to the, 246 
Dan Chaucer, well of English unde- 
nted, 47 
Dance, 7 1 

and jollity, tipsy, 129 

as those move easiest who have 
learned to, 467 

barefoot on her wedding-day, 10 

her turn, and, 71 

is not to woo, time to, 456 

provided that he did not, 393 
Danced, and then she, 129 

at night, death-fires, 81 

'em, he 'd squired 'em, druv 'em, 363 

to see that banner in the sky, 114 
Dances and the public show, mid- 
night, 448 

such a way, she, 129 
Dancing, 71 

after, the New came, 119 

oh heaven! her, 129 

'round them the spectres are seen, 
379 
Dandled him to rest, who,- 89 
Dane slain, the Drury Lane, 115 
Danger and reproof, the taste of, 332 

brave, could, 67 

breathe, does only death and, 300 

in that hour of, 39 

is in discord, all your, 433 

is past, the, 229 

just fear of an imminent, 430 

may be at any hour, 435 

of being in, 359 

of detection increases every day, 82 

or dishonour lurks, where, 443 

on the deep, there's, 304 

out of this nettle, 280 

pleased withT;he, 304 

soft, making the nettle, 280 

we are in great, 65 

who does not shrink from, 390 
Dangerous, 71 

and his drink, 101 

humours, nurses, 431 

most, is that temptation, 347 

such men are, 126 

thing, a little learning is a, 215 

to disturb a hornet's nest, 186 
Danger 's post, breast that fears not, 

145 
Dangers I had passed, for the, 363 

of the sea, sing the, 346 

of the seas, think upon the, 355 



Dangers thou canst mak' us scorn, 19 

Daniel, 72 

Danny Deever in the mornin', they 're 

hanging, 169 
Danube, 72 
Dare, 72 

a heart to feel and, 173 

call it treason, none, 414 

come to us, ere death, 79 

do, what men, 259 

eat his breakfast, 134 

how much the wretched, 465 

look on that, that, 251 

maintain them, they have rights 
who, 338 

more than the strongest, 133 

never grudge the throe, 328 

not be so bold, 120 

not, fain deny, and, 223 

not, letting I, 45 

not be in the right, who, 368 

not perch, where eagles, 106 

not throne above, I, 160 

not, with such a proposal I, 283 

the elements to strife, seems to, 
436 

to, do our duty, 337 

to lay bare, none ever, 284 

to vent his dang'rous thought, let 
him not, 397 
Dared for a high cause, who have, 120 

not answer no, 283 

not close, my fevered eyes I, 369 

not disobey, I, 93 
Dares be true, he serves all who, 415 

do more, who, 72 

love attempt, that, 239 

not lend his eye, th' other, 321 

not put it to the touch, 126 

rush on death, 191 

send a challenge to his end, 221 

to take the side, and, 337 
Darest thou, then, 85 
Daring, 72 

last look of despairing, 86 

more, or more bold, 422 

the loving are the, 34 
Dark, 72 

and after that the, 18 

and the daylight, between the, 50 

as Erebus, his affections, 273 

benighted way, upon the, 75 

despite the, 145 

fear to go into the, 77 

for ways that are, 50 

her silver mantle threw, o'er the, 
268 

no, still 'tis, 283 

spin on blindly in the, 439 

the night and chill, 211 

the night both drear and, 26 

though to-day be, 186 
Dark-blue ocean, thou deep and, 288 
Darker grows the night, as, 185 
Darkest day, the, 86 

storm, from the, 41 



Index 



53i 



Darkness, 72 

a distant voice in the, 360 

again and a silence, then, 360 

again, sink into, 138 

and breathless, 362 

and cold, of pain, 78 

and to me, to, 69 

as a bride, 90 

a voice in the, 84 

deep caverns of, 163 

blackness of, 313 

encompass, sorrows and, 163 

falls from the wings of Night, the, 
282 

groping blindly in the, 156 

in secret, 154 

is strong, 380 

of to-day, let us forget the, 48 

right hand in that, 156 

running through caverns of, 451 

so from the bosom of, 138 

swept across the sky, 76 

the, and the worm, 401 

the raven down of, 282 

there's a midnight, 225 

they who walk in, 324 

up to God, slope through, 7 

vigilant in, 70 

villains and the sons of, 417 
Darling, 72 

of my heart, she is the, 6, 74 

the Frenchman 's, 144 
Darling 's grave, be weeping at her, 164 
Darlings, 72 
Darned long row to hoe, a, 344 

sight better business, is a, 404 
Dart, to wing the, 106 

feather on the fatal, 106 

too often Love's insidious, 236 
Darts, and Apollyon shoots, 226 
Dash, 72 
Dashest 73 

Dashing, through red blood the war- 
horse, 431 
Dashings, save his own, 75 
Dastard in war, and a, 237 
Dateless bargain, a, 118 

nameless and, 373 
Dates are thine, these tamarinds and, 

12 
Daubed with red, nor need be, 152 
Daughter, 73 

am I in mother's house, 276 

of Chaos and eternal Night, 46 

of the gods, 94 

of the Vine, and took the, 426 

or hear sighs for a, 400 

still harping on my, 171 

War, he thought of his, 432 

wife, the mother, 452 
Daughters of earth, words are the, 459 

words are men 's, 459 
Daunted, mystery the spirit, 69 
Dauntless breast, that with, 168 

spirit and a press, he had a, 315 
David, Josias, young Obadias, 305 



Daw, no wiser than a, 213 

Dawn and dusk were mine, thy, 230 

beheld, such as creation 's, 406 

comes up like thunder, the, 252 

grows bright, the, 283 

in the, 56 

man 's presumption on to-morrow 's, 
411 

no, no dust, 285 

on their rest, ere life shall, 97 

smitten in its early, 391 

the rift of, 207 

through the vast waste, 18 
Dawned in heaven, and the next 

waking, 105 
Dawning of morn, with the, 98 
Dawn's early light, 17 
Daw 's not reckoned a religious bird, 52 
Daws to peck at, for, 371 
Day, 73 

a chest of drawers by, 295 

after, sermons and soda-water the, 
444 

a hand open as, 161 

a hundred years to a, 46 

all the next, 169 

and a new morning brings eternal, 
13 

and brings the harvest home of, 470 

and every dog his, 469 

and for the, confined to fast in fires, 
380 

and night, all seasons, 361 

and night, stuck to me, 286 

and waking with, 390 

as it fell upon a, 256 

as morning shows the, 49 

a stocking all the, 282 

a summer's, 122 

as sharp to them as thorn, this, 419 

at least one meal a, 256 

be bread and peace, 35 

been, I hae mony, 229 

beguiled, expectation every, 92 

beyond the night, across the, 463 

bricks are alive at this, 36 

brought back my night, 98 

business of the, 102 

but his eternal, 155 

but one, the, 281 

by day, lower to his level, 56 

by day, that see we, 272 

cares that infest the, 44 

close the drama with the, 109 

come night, end, 282 

comes a frost, third, 164 

dog will have his, 45 

dozing all the, 101 

end it, will one, 109 

ended with the, 105 

fight another, 130 

follow as the night the, 415 

for America, is a glorious, 8 

for ever and a, 116 

forget the luve o' life's young, 222 

for killing folks, ninepence a, 272 



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Index 



Day 

forth, from this, 382 

good things of, 282 

he first saw the, 348 

here's to the, 361 

he that outlives this, 66 

in cold, the, 189 

in June, rare as a, 199 

in the light of fuller, 252 

in the spring of, 161 

into the light of, 15 

is aye fair, the, 215 

is called the feast of Crispian, 66 

is done and the darkness, 282 

is done, happy the man that when 

his, 62 
is long, as merry as the, 261 
is named, when this, 66 
it is not yet near, 283 
it is solemnized, the, 407 
I dearly love but one, 74 
knell of parting, 69 
long, not dream them all, 374 
longer than a wonder lasts, a, 4s 6 
men that in a narrower, 106 
must win, right the, 337 
nest at peep of, 25 
next, the fatal precedent, 84 
night is long that never finds the, 

282 
nor brought too long a, 331 
of judgment, on the, 450 
of strife, better a, 390 
once full of, 429 
precincts of the cheerful, 139 
'round the chowder-kettle, that, 51 
sleep shall neither night or, 370 
tell what hour o' th', 6 
that is dead, 161 
the darkest, 86 
the events of every, 352 
the hunting of that, 419 
the iron wheels go onward, all, 439 
the maddest, merriest, 256 
the meanest have their, 123 
the night will hallow the, 442 
the pleasures of the present, 227 
this, she was both pantler, 71 
to-morrow as to-day, such a, 411 
to day, this petty pace from, 411 
to shine by night and, 245 
unto each man comes a, 366 
we keep the, 10 1 
we may not live to see the, 159 
will look on a sultry, 269 
will not look the same by, 468 
woe worth the, 448 
wooed and wedded in a, 442 
Daylight, 73 

around them in, 446 
between the dark and the, 50 
comes, when, 224 
Daylight's past, and the, 344 
Day's disasters in his morning face, 93 
disdain, to feel the, 369 
last beam is flown, the, 429 



Day's life, the death of each, 370 

march nearer home, a, 278 

occupations, pause in the, 50 

rest, where takes his one, 401 

work, done thy long, 35 
Days, 74 

and live laborious, 123 

are come, the melancholy, 257 

are dwindled, whose, 375 

are foul, his, 101 

are gone when beauty bright, the, 
236 

are past, when these dark, 237 

as belonged to early, 204 

a world of happy, 99 

come roaring and gleaming, 138 

halcyon, 168 

happy mixtures of more happy, 264 

lived a courtier all my, 66 

looked on better, 23 

may come, and, 236 

my salad, 349 

of boyhood perished, the blithe, 331 

of childhood, in my, 307 

of her life, all the, 45 1 

of long-ago, the lusty, 230 

my, are in the yellow leaf, 223 

of my life, kape me from such all 
the, 16 

of nature, done in my, 380 

of old, in the brave, 341 

of yore, of the saintly, 325 

past our dancing, 7 1 

peat his pate for, 216 

shuts up the story of our, 406 

some tell their, 398 

that length of, 223 

that were earlier, in the, 311 

the light of other, 258 

then if ever come perfect, 199 
Deacon, 74 

swear, 'most enough to make a, 394 
Deacons do, the Deacon swore, as, 74 
Dead, 74-76 

already, one cup to the, 91 

and never dream we 're, 235 

and turned to clay, 42 1 

but marks our English, 113 

contend for Homer, 183 

earth that bears thee, 381 

fame, to his, 121 

forgot, and, 462 

for Homer being, 183 

gazed on the face of the, 313 

grace of a day that is, 161 

how can he be, 191 

how the bird was, 41 

if I were, 76 

if only the, 140 

immortal of the, 115 

in fair battle strikes him, 12 

laurel the graves of our, 212 

lay in his shroud of snow, 55 

lions by the beard, plucks, 423 

living a year or two after one is, 
423 



Index 



533 



427 



Dead 

man, between a man asleep and a, 
369 

man's face, sometimes in a, 225 

man 's grave, I who have troubled 
the, 448 

men, the peace of, 299 

men, down among the, 172 

not, but gone before, 158 

now, oh would I were, 68 

of the night a sweet vision I sa 

of those immortal, 50 

once, you never shall return, 100 

on the face of the, 311 

poor, speechless creature, 38 

render up their, 354 

rest her soul, she's, 453 

restore the, thou sea, 354 

say I 'm sick, I 'm, 206 

scandals form good subjects, 351 

selves, on stepping-stones of their, 
170 

shall not have died in vain, these, 
276 

so death is to the, 7'; 

some are, 351 

some flung up, 35 

steered by the dumb, the, 357 

take up thy, 28 

that from these honoured, 276 

that lull the, 468 

that name the underlying, 468 

the bivouac of the, 26 

the devil to fetch the, 87 

the heifer, 41 

the light in the dust lies, 209 

they said to him, she is, 55 

till you 're, 112 

unnoted, and for ever, 65 

whose garlands, 17 

when it goes out, we are, 28 

where rest not England's, 113 

who rose again, the, 332 

yea to the, 185 
Deadlier than stone or brick, 114 
Dead-low-tide, seen except at, 175 
Deadly and chill, waxed, 77 
Dead Sea, 76 

Dead-sure thing, duty a, 104 
Deaf as the sea, in rage, 324 
Deal damnation round the land, 71 

lightly with thy faults, need, 450 

of sack, to this intolerable, 346 

of skimble-skamble stuff, a, 367 
Dealers in watered milk, 325 
Dealing, bend our conscience to our, 
386 

out flannel and sheeting, 175 
Dealings, whose sordid, 58 
Dean invite, the cushion and soft, 178 
Deans, dowagers for, 162 
Dear and only love, my, 234 

as remembered kisses after death, 

as the light that visits, 443 
as the ruddy drops, 443 



Dear as the vital warmth, 443 

as they grow old, 14 

for earth too, 21 

for my possessing too, 125 

for what makes manhood, 27 

he held them sixpence all too, 387 

none so, 57 

oh, how fondly, 135 

ones wasted, an', 299 

sea-coal fire when not too, no 

that bread should be so, 75 

they will still be, 179 

'tis expectation makes a blessing, 
117 

to heaven is saintly chastity, 47 

to me as are the ruddy drops, 443 

to me as life itself, 223 

to the heart of our Lord, 160 
Dearer than his horse, a little, 297 
Dearest action in the tented field, 130 

bliss, that, 27 

foe in heaven, 73 

friend to me, 145 

truest the nearest and, 146 

when joys are, 331 
Dearie, my arms about my, 44 
Dears, swears the lovely, 211 
Death, 76-81 

a glad relief, make our, 89 

a Sultan to the realm of, 401 

a woman as true as, 451 

alone can break into the case, 403 

and danger breathe, does only, 300 

and existence, the things mis- 
named, 369 

and pain, victor over, 199 

and that vast forever, make life, 374 

are all the same, life and, 155 

assured alone that life and, 147 

a thunder-clap, 1J3 

a traveller between life and, 413 

be sweeter, if, 241 

befall you, lest worse than, 94 

bravely as for life and, 120 

bright beyond the gulf of, 159 

by slanderous tongues, done to, 368 

can vengeance be pursued further 
than, 424 

come soon or late, 89 

comes, so that when, 54 

dares rush on, 191 

dear as remembered kisses after, 205 

did sign, the angel, 365 

ere thou hast slain, 180 

Falstaff sweats to, 210 

for his ambition, 7 

gone to her, 420 

hail him at the gates of, 61 

has left on her, 20 

hymn to his own, 273 

in battle, for the great prize o', 19 

in that sleep of, 98 

in the Revelation, n 

in the silent halls of, 227 

into the world, brought, 93 

into the valley of, 90 



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Index 



Death 

is master of lord and clown, 103 

is nigh, when, 273 

lays his icy hand on kings, 127 

leaves to its eternal rest, 221 

life is perfected by, 206 

made way for liberty, 217 

mankind are equalized by, 114 

manly brow consents to, 152 

mature, for, 228 

may not enter there, 209 

meetest for, 439 

mitigate the remembrance of, so 

must be, then bitter, 241 

never taste of, 66 

no certain life achieved by others, 27 

no drinking after, 10 1 

not guilty of his own, 213 

of each day 's life, 3 70 

or give me, 217 

or life, yield a step for, 43 1 

our, the tree of knowledge, 414 

poor child of doubt and, 330 

proclaimed through our host, 156 

run their horse to, 22 

should sing, 'tis strange that, 273 

slavery or, 430 

submission bondage and resistance, 

39i 
succeeded life in her, 105 
that it is light, 369 
that none but, 206 
the coward sneaks to, 66 
the dull, cold ear of, 421 
the old, old fashion, 191 
the postman, or the bore, can keep 

out, 31 
there was silence deep as, 364 
the way to dusty, 411 
those by, are few, 289 
thou shalt seek, 69 
though the black camel, 126 
till they have wakened, 400 
to engrossing, 118 
to me, sweet is, 241 



unloads thee, 336 

was not the worst of all, 90 

we owe God a, 89 

were sated, here grief and, 374 

what ugly sights of, 102 

where is thy sting, 163 

which happened in his berth, 22 

with a rust, eaten to, 345 

with that body's, 377 

your ruling passion strong in, 297 
Death-bed, 81 
Death-fires, 81 

Death-hymn, the wild swan's, 273 
Death 's bright angel, it may be that, 

door, is brought to, 31 
mystery, glad to, 244 
Deaths, many times before their, 66 
ye died I have watched beside, 349 



Debased and hard, words so, 458 
Debate, after much, 245 

can a Roman senate long, 430 

the faithful wife without, 442 
Debating, 82 

Debilitated, body, mind or moral na- 
ture must be, 425 
Debility, the means of weakness and, 

357 
Debonair, buxom, blithe and, 41 
Debt, 82 

but Nature 's, 89 

but the debt of nature, I have no, 
278 

dread no foe but, 184 

for so great a, 189 
Debtor to his profession, every man a, 

318 , 

to you for courtesies, 65 
Debtors do, and as most, 318 
Debts, 82 

are paid, my, 89 

to pay, my, 232 

with, to pay full-weight-dollar, 96 

words pay no, 459 
Decay, 82 

and men, 300 

and the dearest hopes, 125 

are tainted to, 148 

though the forms, 256 

when love begins to sicken and, 238 
Decayed fortune, the last effort of, 171 
Deceit, 82 

rumor of oppression and, 229 

should dwell, 30 

with a tear, and forgive her, 333 
Deceits, 82 
Deceive, 82 
Deceived, 83 

most egregiously, 397 

was still, 92 
Deceiver, 83 
Deceivers, 83 

Deceiving, what is hope but, 63 
December, seek roses in, 67 

the mirth of its, 331 

when they wed, 457 
Decency, 83 
Decent, I hold it is not, 340 

people, who came of, 348 

priest, where monkeys were the 
gods, 316 
Decide, 83 

when doctors disagree, 94 
Deck it was their field of fame, the, 288 

my captain lies, where on the, 43 

thee with all bays, 124 

the lion-spirits that tread the, 133 
Decked his brows, a nightcap, 282 

thought thy bride-bed to have, 36 
Decks, many a one on our, 133 
Declaration, for the support of this, 
307 

(of Independence), what the, 8 

of Independence, which make up 
the, 149 



Index 



535 



Declare, winds of the world, 1 1 1 
Declared how much he knew, all, 206 
Decline your nectared wine, none to, 

152 
Declined, end of language is, 210 
Decrease it, yet heaven may, 238 

life is in, 81 

that now dilate and now, 52 
Decree established, can alter a, 315 

hot temper leaps o'er a cold, 33 
Decrees of Venice, no force in the, 213 
Decried him, envy that, 122 
Dedicate ourselves, rather, 276 
Dedicated, rather to be, 276 
Dee, lived on the river, 262 
Deed, 83 

hope your warrant will bear out 
the, 433 

in fiery word or, 248 

is done for freedom, 143 

of shame, beneath our feet each, 
170 

would he do, not a, 34 
Deedless in his tongue, 84 
Deeds, 83, 84 

are men, words are women, 459 

but pure in, 97 

by great thoughts and the good, 248 

displayed, his martial, 264 

I tell of the thrice-famous, in 

not in words, but, 227 

not years, we live in, 227 

of men, through the, 126 

of mercy, to render the, 260 

ready for a hero 's, 54 

that doth gentil, 150 

turnpikes leading to free, 31 

words are no, 459 
Deemed of them, if we better, 191 
Deep, 84 

across the, may go, 409 

a home on the rolling, 288 

and still, this sleep so, 369 

as a well, 'tis not so, 189 

call spirits from the vasty, 381 

caverns, voices from the, 163 

drew from out the boundless, 18 

fishes that tipple in the, 133 

from the great, 18 

in ruin as in guilt, 342 

in the lowest, 178 

into the fatal bowels of the, 346 

my love as, 239 

out of the, 18 

there's danger on the, 304 

to that last, 18 

to the great, 18 

to the swelling, 101 

where the brook is, 435 
Deeper than all speech, thought is, 

403 
Deep-tangled wildwood, the, 49 
Deer. 84 

mice and rats and such small, 261 

my own stricken, 31 
Defamed by every charlatan, 150 



Defect, than the, 28 
Defects, exact my own, 260 

of doubt, 160 
Defence, 84 

immodest words admit of no, 83 

to bear, in your, 355 
Defend, foremost to, 176 

the right, God, 338 

the wronged and the weak to, 173 

us, angels and ministers, 9 
Defendant, plaintiff or, 92 
Defendants, women plaintiffs or, 455 
Defended, oft have heard, 260 
Defends the land, that, 353 
Defensive to a house, 112 
Defer, 84 
Defiance, 84 

bid, to all the force of the crown, 
44 

in their eye, 316 

in their faces stern, 130 
Defiant, mad, but not, 244! 
Defies its point, 191 
Denied, they that touch pitch will be, 

401 
Defined, all well, 387 
Definition of a proverb is, my, 320 
Defy, and I, 218 

they will, 322 
Degenerate, 84 
Degree better, is in some, 54 

of delight, we have a, 265 

of woe, by some, 448 
Degrees, and in these, 242 

fine by, 131 

gather by unseen, 167 

it grows up by, 261 

of the lie, the, 218 
Dejected 'haviour of the visage, 448 
Delay, chides his infamous, 251 

in, there lies no plenty, 239 

rises in demand for her, 265 

sweet, reluctant, amorous, 391 

the law's, 323 
Deliberates, 85 
Deliberation, 85 
Delicious bed, 21 
Delight, gives his youth, 49 

go to 't with, 40 

he drank, 295 

in doing one 's work in life, to, 460 

she was a phantom of, 302 

their tales of, 207 

to bark and bite, let dogs, 95 

to the night when our, 361 

twinkle with a crystalline, 23 

we have a degree of, 265 
Delighted spirit, the, 90 
Delightful as a wife, half so, 442 

task, to rear the tender thought, 
398 
Delights, all thoughts, all passions, all, 
234 

to scorn, 123 
Deliver, will a round unvarnished 
tale, 396 



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Index 



Deliverance, blended sound of battle, 
and, 461 

its angels of, 255 
Delivered, a nation saved, a race, 277 

upon the mellowing of occasion, 258 
Delivers in such apt, 196 
Dells, all about the breezy, 52 
Deluge showers, the rain a, 26 
Delve one yard below their mines, 

no 
Demagogue, who can stand before a, 

259 
Demand for her delay, rises in, 265 

new measures, new times, 281 
Demands, a time like this, 259 
Dem'd, damp, moist, unpleasant body, 

28 
Demeanour, 85 
Demi-paradise, 112 
Democrats, wrinkles the damned, 465 
Demon of Drunkenness, the wander- 
ing, 102 

that tempts us within, the, 120 
Demoniac throng, by, 374 
Demons down under the sea, the, 236 
Demonstrative, but not, 376 
Demurely, look, 372 
Den, 85 
Denied him, fate that then, 122 

him, not she, 67 

in heaven the soul, 176 

that comes to be, 427 

to friends and visitors, 345 

was death, 81 
Denies them, grants them, or, 394 
Denmark, ne'er a villain dwelling in 
all, 426 

rotten in the State of, 344 
Denote me truly, that can, 448 
Deny, he that will this health, 172 

me, fie upon your law, if you, 213 

nothing, I, 60 

would fain, 223 
Depart, and I am ready to, 221 

better cheer, ere you, 48 

come like shadows, so, 358 

the captains and the king, 139 

then quick, 283 

to drink deep, ere you, 100 
Departed, and all but he, 17 

may return no more, once, 334 

once, come no more, 334 
Departing breath, with his, 61 

leave behind us, 138 
Department, the most important, 54 
Departments, with all the public, 54 
Departs, he ne'er, 305 

when youth, the dream, 470 
Departure, a fair, 1 

and no friend take note of thy, 86 
Depend, on exercise, 172 
Depended, late on hopes, 464 
Deplore thee, but we will not, 163 
Depolarize, 85 

Deprecated war, both parties, 431 
Depth, far beyond my, 153 



Depth in philosophy bringeth men 's 
minds, 14 

of the abyss may be, the, 293 

thy breadth and thy, 403 
Depths, 8.5 

have more, the, 354 

like a pebble, into its, 173 

sounded all the, 140 

through the dark blue, 268 
Deputy of oak, had got a, 216 
Derides, sport that wrinkled care, 382 
Derive, this doctrine I, 118 
Deriving their just powers, 161 
Descend, into the dust, 103 

to, ambition and revenge, 7 
Descends in love, heaven itself, 233 
Descent, 85 

claims of long, 148 

precipitous, the, 305 
Desert, 85 

air, on the, 149 

as you came in the, 392 

fair virtue 's way, I might, 429 

faring, o'er life's drear, 232 

I come to thee, from the, 86 

nothing went unrewarded but, 42 t 

shall rejoice, the, 443 

shines in the dry, 364 

use every man after his, 440 
Desert-circle spreads, the, 268 
Deserted, 86 

mansion, the door of the, 91 

some banquet-hall, 17 
Deserts are small, or his, 126 
Deserve better of mankind, would, 
162 

it, don't, 392 

it, we'lh 392 

not punishment, 157 

the precious bane, that soil may 
best, 336 
Deserved, as he, 183 
Deserves no name, 147 

the fair, 34 
Design, may baffle his, 262 

unfinished lies, the great, 79 

who knows the inscrutable, 164 
Designs, in the centre of his thin, 353 
Desire, 86 

but its surcease, not, 4 

contents his natural, 176 

in your true heart 's, 83 

liveth not in fierce, 237 

Lorde, I thee, 140 

more love and knowledge of you, 
I shall, 462 

not a moth with vain, 160 

our low, 233 

prayer is the soul's sincere, 313 

the utmost share of, 100 

thou nurse of young, 185 

thrills the fond soul with wild, 236 

to hear her speak again, 238 

to rest, and I, 333 

too much, can one, 159 

we may be better strangers, 389 



Index 



S3) 



Desire 

with dead, it doth not die, 237 

will be the, 190 
Desired, hurts and is, 79 
Desires, 86 

thee, no German maid, 151 
Desirest, more than thou, 199 
Desolation, demonstrating a careless, 
239 

sword and, 329 
Despair, and infinite, 177 

in the jolly black-jack, 26 

or hope, texts of, 24 

the hurried question of, 107 

there breathes, 125 

wasting in, 120 

where reason would, 185 

where seraphs might, 270 

ye taste of our, 465 
Despairing, 86 

of what it would, 232 
Desperate, 86 

men, often the resort of, 298 

part, a silent and, 61 
Desperatest is the wisest course, 86 
Despicable state, nor, 434 
Despise me, ay, do, 86 
Despised, 86 

love, the pangs of, 323 
Despot's heel is on thy shore, the, 25s 
Destinies, all men 's, 306 
Destiny, 86 

grasp of vengeful, 127 

obscure, and, 310 

whereon is writ his, 384 
Destroy his fib or sophistry, 353 

not in after wrath, 107 

one to, 272 
Destroyed, by himself, 306 

by thought, 33 

not one life shall be, 160 

when once, 300 
Destroyer, 87 
Destroying others, 306 
Destructive, damnable, deceitful 

woman, 452 
Detect, by his look, 306 
Detection increases every day, danger 

of, 82 
Detector of the heart, a, 81 
Determine, doctors cannot quite, 89 
Detest th' offence, yet, 289 
Detested a quarrel, and, 308 
Detraction will not suffer it, 185 
Deuce gae wi'm to believe me, 458 
Devil, 87, 88 

and thou a merry, 400 

bid you, if the, 156 

can cite Scripture, the, 353 

get thee gone, go, poor, 189 

himself, sugar o'er the, 88 

how the, they got there, 458 

if the, to serve his turn, 218 

in his sneer, a laughing, 372 

in, to serve the, 228 

laugh, it always makes the, 447 



Devil 

let us call thee, 445 

of his will, curb this cruel, 213 

over his own coals, call the, 347 

represent the, 115 

ruled the woman, the, 449 

some play the, 285 

take her, the, 240 

tell truth. and shame the, 417 

they bade him go ... to the, 183 

thought of his old friend, 11 

we '11 face the, 19 

which might appal the, 251 

whispered behind the leaves, 13 

will fetch me now in fire, and the, 
448 

with him was God or, 324 
Devil's booth, at the, 177 

cellar, the, 178 

pet words, another of the, 422 

wife was but a fiend, 464 
Devils are here, all the, 178 
Devise, I give and I, 91 

laws for the blood, 33 

wit! write, pen, 466 
Devoid of sense and motion, 90 
Devotion, 88 

dust, perhaps a name, 274 

wafts the mind above, 233 

the last full measure of, 276 

we take increased. 276 
Devour the way, seemed in running 

to, 34s 
Devoured as fast, which are, 407 
Devours them all, 133 
Devoutly, love prays, 235 
Dew, are cooling, 160 

as sunlight drinketh, 204 

drop forgiveness from heaven like, 
140 

falling like, 192 

fresh-blown roses washed in, 343 

morning roses newly washed with, 
343 

of sleep, the timely, 370 

of yon high eastward hill, 269 

resolve itself into a, 134 

soft falls the, 311 

the ripe ruddy, 226 

trembling as the, 245 

washed with morning, 398 
Dewdrop, had sparkled as a, 378 

from its wing, shook the, 210 

shall lingering lie, like a, 203 
Dewlapped, 88 
Dews away, brushing : . . the, 392 

drawn up like morning, 19 
Dewy grass among, haste the, 151 

eve, from noon to, 122 
Dial, 88 
Diamond, 88 
Diamonds, 88 

as Sappho 's, 410 

three times eight large, 73 
Diaries, will bravely jot down in, 352 
Dicers' oaths, as false as, 287 



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Dick the shepherd, and, 190 
Dictates to be done, 61 
Did it, alone I, 7 

it, thou canst not say I, 229 
Diddled, taste for being, 103 
Die, 88-91 

a bachelor, 16 

a dry death, 80 

are but born and, 351 

as much beauty as could, 427 

because a woman's fair, 120 

because he cannot, 191 

before they sing, persons, 366 

but fools they cannot, 138 

but that which wished to, 76 

but to obtain or, 233 

by God, he shall not, 287 

by which we live and, 30 

cry out . . . enough! and, 4 

dear, die, 232 

do we not, 197 

even fools would wish to, 81 

for Dixie, live or, 94 

for her, to fight and, 189 

for love, must, 384 

glad did I live and gladly, 163 

go and sin till you, 365 

hazard of the, 44 

if for widows you, 442 

if I should, 370 

if need be to, 120 

if we are marked to, 185 

in, for a corner to, 176 

in moulding Sheridan, b^oke the, 
3S9 

in music, and, 273 

in that old arm-chair, saw her, 173 

in the last ditch, I will, 93 

in thy lap, 174 

is thrown, all of theirs upon that, 
455 

is to, 136 

it was sure to, 148 

laws and learning, 284 

lay their eggs and, 64 

let me, 241 

let the ape and tiger, 20 

like Hector in the field to, 28 

live or, 366 

love like ours can never, 242 

many times before their deaths, 66 

may sicken and so, 273 

more proudly than to, 351 

no man can help you, 129 

not valiant that dares, 422 

or like Douglas, 97 

shaft that made him, 106 

she must weep or she will, 76 

sinks downward here to, 270 

swans sing before they, 366 

teach the rustic moralist to, 401 

the fading flower shall, 327 

the soul . . . shall never, 376 

the wounded to, 39 

to make men free, let us, 225 

unknown, or, 124 



Die 

upon the hand, to, 169 

was not made to, 104 

we must be free or, 412 

with dead desire it doth not, 237 

with love and never dream we 're 
dead, 235 

wilt thou too, 377 

Xerxes must, 467 
Died, 91 

a conquered man, and has, 321 

Alexander, 421 

and new-born baby, 425 

and they, 284 

and when I, 265 

an' when the vartoos, in 

blessing her, tell her that I, 243 

but the woman, 453 

for her, that they, 416 

for men, on a man that, 104 

for thee, would God I had, 1 

from time to time, men have, 238 

made way for liberty and, 217 

in bitter pains, 109 

in Christ the Saviour, 220 

in harness, he, 90 

in harness here, 90 

in vain, resolve they have not, 276 

in vain, shall not have, 276 

of the slow fever called the tertian, 
441 

or perish as they, 128 

o' Wednesday, he that, 185 

sleeping when she, 105 

the dog it was that, 95 

to make men holy, as he, 225 

to save, martyrs, 416 

what else can be foretold, 228 

young, well, he, 151 
Dies, 91 

a man, every moment, 69 

among his worshippers, 415 

and fancy, 124 

as when a giant, 80 

at every word a reputation, 332 

but never surrenders, the Guard, 
166 

he that, 82 

in a desperate stress, 376 

in single blessedness, 342 

love never, 235 

married young, best married that, 
254 

ne'er like angels till our passion, 297 

of lockjaw, error, 415 

once has blown for ever, 135 

so when a great man, 138 

the good man never, 159 

the same, then, 251 

to-day who, 75 

when love is done, 281 

with the dying sun, 281 

yet never, 28 
Diet, like one that takes, 239 
Dieter, and he her, 62 
Dietetics, gruel and the, 363 



Index 



539 



Dieth, when the warrior, 433 

Differ as heaven and earth, men at 

most, 259 
Difference feeling, no, 386 

should be, strange all this, 418 

there is little, 369 
Different dooms our birthdays bring, 

25 
Difficile, Latin was no more, 165 
Difficult, better, though, 159 
Diffused from pole to pole, 161 
Dig the dust, to, 29 

the grave and let me lie, 163 
Digest of anarchy, institute and, 338 

it, I shall, 39s 
Digested, some few to be chewed and, 

,-,■ 3 °- 

Digestion, 91 

Dighton Rock, like that on, 175 

Dignities, a peace above all earthly, 

299 
Dignity and love, in every gesture, 161 

into it, interest or, 208 

of crimes, may reach the, 167 
Dilate and now decrease, that now, 52 
Dim and sad, morn came, 105 

my sandals, I would not, 152 

religious light, casting a, 225 

the sun himself grow, 191 

those perplexed and patient eyes 
were, 118 
Dime, from half a dime to a, 403 
Dimensions, senses, 197 
Diminished, 91 

heads, hide their, 172 
Dimmed and gone, now, 258 
Dimmed the light of heaven, 155 
Dimple, 91 

or smile, beguile with a, 398 
Dine, 92 

Dined or supped on fame, who ever, 
123 

to-day, I have, 349 
Dining, where is the man that can live 

without, 63 
Ding, chiels that winna, 119 

dong, bell, 124 
Dinner, 92. 

it was presently after, 239 
Dinner-bell, 92 
Dinner-time, if it's near, 92 

it will be, 413 
Dinners by the dozen, I'd, 319 
Dipped me in ink, 466 
Dire effects from civil discord flow, 93 
Direct, 92 

and honest, to be, 183 

the lie, the seventh, 218 

the understanding to, 173 
Direction, all chance, 337 

I cannot leave you my, 89 
Directly to say I love you, 238 
Directors, 92 

Directs the storm, and, 388 
Dirge, hark to the, 298 

is sung, by forms unseen their, 34 



Dirge, sing a, for St. Hugh's soul, 32 
Dirt, 92 

in poverty, hunger and, 361 

is loss of, 360 

or, or grubs or worms, 458 

rather turn to, 158 

to fall out with 361 
Dirty, 92 

gods, who worship, 158 

politics, construed to mean, 310 
Disabused, by himself abused or, 462 
Disadvantage, a ship has the addi- 
tional, 3S9 
Disagree, when doctors, 94 
Disappear, to see my bright ones, 19 
Disappointed, 92 

Disapprove, than that which you, 397 
Disaster, yield the other up to, 15s 
Disasters, 93 

Discard, his labour will often, 390 
Discern, living sparks we still, 4 
Disciples fight, differing doctors and, 

162 
Discontent, 93 

Discontented or hungry jurymen, 92 
Discord, 93 

all, harmony not understood, 338 

all your danger is in, 433 
Discords, in dismal, 25 
Discourse, 93 

is his, 196 

of reason, a beast that wants, 20 
Discover virtue, adversity doth best, 
427 

what anguish to, 242 

which to, 72 
Discovered the use of tobacco, who 

first, 408 
Discovers, on all their light, 384 
Discovery, the world give for the, 403 
Discredit more in hiding, 128 
Discreet, I 'm too, 350 
Discretion, 93 

that they might not want, 82 

the better part of valour is, 423 
Disdain, to feel the day's, 369 
Disdained if falsehood 's honey it, 41 1 
Disdainful smile, with a, 310 
Disdains her shattered cell, 367 

the shadow which he treads on, 392 
Disease, 93 

the remedy is worse than the, 330 
Diseases desperate grown, 86 

physic, is for all, 44s 

subject to the same, 197 

to commodity, I will turn, 301 
Disfavour, bring religion's self into, 

Disgrace, and most their sires 367 

hidden from the heart's, 108 

my man 's apparel, 68 

saintly mountebanks the porch, 52 

what a burnin', 16 

would be a, 132 
Disguised by philosophic names, mur- 
ders, 272 



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Disgust, that inward, 176 
Dish, an ancient classical, 96 

a noble, 32 

fit for the gods, a, 201 

for a king, 6 

in that one, 32 

that tempts an o'ergorged epicure, 
92 
Dishes, pans, pots, 16 
Dishonour lurks, where danger or, 443 

not your mothers, 270 

party faithlessness is party, 297 

past all, 20 
Dishonourable graves, find ourselves, 

58 
Dishonoured, lost for evermore, shat- 
tered, 107 
Disinherited, profaned and, 188 
Dislike, and hesitate, 71 
Dislikes, the rate of his pay, he, 390 
Dislimns, the rock, 56 
Disloyalty, to doubt would be, 337 
Dismal discords sung, in, 25 
Dismay, let nothing you, 5 1 
Disobedience, 93 
Disobey, 93 

fain promise never more to, 429 
Disorder, a sweet, in the dress, 364 

with most admired, 264 
Disordered, nothing impaired but all, 

380 
Disparage their best and dearest 

friend, 322 
Dispatch you straight, it would, 389 
Dispatched, at once, 370 
Dispense with bolts and locks, when 

banks, 216 
Disperse to nought, it, 53 
Displaced the mirth, you have, 264 
Displayed, his martial deeds, 264 

is the net of the fowler, 280 
Dispose, the stars, they say cannot, 

306 
Disposed when so, 32 
Disposes, man proposes but God, 15s 
Disposition, horridly to shake our, 268 
Dispraised, of whom to be, 312 
Dispute, my right there is none to, 266 
Disputed, downa be, 119 
Disrobe the lion of that robe, 226 
Dissection, form good subjects for, 351 
Dissemble, 93 

pause to parley or, 87 
Dissemblers, that are the greatest, 310 
Dissembling, subtle, 83 
Dissensions, of your wrangles and, 433 
Dissever my soul, can ever, 236 
dissevered, discordant, belligerent, 

Dissimulation drops her mask, tired, 

81 
Dissolve, the great globe itself . . . 

shall, 428 
the political bonds, to, 356 
Dissolved from my hive, I quickly 

were, 436 



Dissolved in air, love 's wild prayer, 
366 

in his wine, was, 153 
Distaff, and holdeth the, 45 1 
Distance, 93 

takes a lovelier hue, the, 457 

their lies an outer, 178 
Distant drum, rumble of a, 44 

mien, the, the lofty port, 316 
Distil it out, observingly, 160 
Distilled, earthlier happy is the rose, 
342. 

in which roses have once been, 258 
Distilling, should understand, 440 
Distinction between virtue and vice, 

no, 425 
Distinctions, to make proper, 397 
Distinguish, 93 
Distinguished by black, brown or fair, 

best, 455 
Distraction in 's aspect, 307 
Distress, and double thy, 265 
Distressed, is a mind, 333 

that harass the, 195 
District, wen he gits to the, 60 
Disturb a hornet 's nest, dangerous to, 

186 
Ditch, 93 

Ditchers and grave-makers, 150 
Dithering stands, needy labour, 207 
Divan, the dry, 102 
Dive, they shall, 350 
Diver, 93 

Divers tones, in, 170 
Divide a hair, distinguish and, 93 

for ever can, 206 

thin partitions do their bounds, 245 
Divided duty, a, 104 

excellence, a fair, 168 

we fall, 420 
Dividends, with, 32 
Dividing, and his cares, 443 

by, we fall, 420 
Divine, 94 

all save the spirit of man is, 426 

he who can, 337 

human face, 118 

in hookas, 408 

the highest human nature is, 338 

in rapture brief almost, 234 

makes drudgery, 102 

may kill a sound, 201 

of kings, the right, 161 

Providence, the protection of, 307 

thou love, 232 

tobacco, 408 

to forgive, 140 

what crisis does, 306 
Divinely, 94 

Diviner 's theme, the glad, 98 
Divines can say, 376 
Divinity, 94 

doth hedge a king, 202 _ 

in odd numbers, there is, 286 
Division of a battle knows, nor the, 



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Index 



54i 



Divorced old barren Reason, 426 
Dixie, 94 
Do, 94 

a hand to, 173 

and die, theirs but to, 90 

anything, though you, 239 

earnest of the things that they shall, 
461 

it, how not to, 54 

it, if it be man 's work, 251 

it yourself, you must, 96 

more, Sempronius, we '11, 392 

noble things, not dream them, 374 

that I cannot, 443 

that I shall be sorry for, 315 

the Samaritan, ready enough to, 349 

to-day, which you can, 408 

to me, for that they, 140 

unto the other feller, 82 

vum, I, 74 

we must what force, 139 

what few or none would, 159 

what men may, 259 

which he can never, 130 

you more, Sempronius, 392 
Docks and stocks and slips, launched 

from the, 461 
Doctor, 94 

but himself, therein, 200 

than fee the, 172 
Doctors, 94 

and disciples fight, 162 

cannot quite determine, 89 

give what they would take, and, 
214 
Doctrine, 95 

for of such, 200 

from women's eyes this, 118 

of ignoble ease, not the, 389 

orthodox, prove their, 329 
Documents, the things named pants 

in certain, 294 
Doe, some draw pleas for John, 146 
Does a wise one, nor ever, 202 
Doff it for shame, 226 
Dog, 95 

bark, let no, 291 

because he hath wakened thy, 322 

broodin' over bein' a, 134 

but the poor, 176 

cut-throat, 147 

his day, and every, 469 

his faithful, 176 

is good fer a, 134 

or horse, 38 

rather be a, 36 

so, a heart to curse my, 395 

something better than his, 297 

think of that, my, 45 

to be used as you use your, 378 

tongue of, 179 

will have his day, 45 
Doggies gang to heaven, do, 176 
Dogmatist, thou testy little, 200 
Dogrose, 95 
Dog 's obeyed in office, a, 289 



Dogs, 95 

between two, 213 

howled, 25 

liable to be torn by, 292 

of war, let slip the, 335 

orses and, 187 

shall drink him, men and, 248 

throw physic to the, 303 
Doing, 96 

and still be, 329 

battle for the saints, 395 

be up and, 2 

joy 's soul lies in the, 198 

nothing was his curse. 285 

or suffering, 436 
Doings, all my, 386 
Dole, with a temporal, 114 
Doled, stolen, borrowed, squandered, 

157 
Doleful dumps the mind oppress, 166 
Doll, 96 
Dollar, 96 

Dolve, when Adam, 149 
Domain his own, such a vast, 112 

or extension of, no 
Dome, beneath some ample hallowed, 
264 

more vast, with a, 376 

of thought, the, 367 

that fired the Ephesian, 123 

the hand that rounded Peter's, 39 

yet be the, 267 
Domestic life, the charities of, 413 
Dominies there, and, 176 
Dominion over sea and land, to have, 

402 
Dominions, mid the night's, 284 
Donald mair, nor think o', 364 
Dove, 96 

agin', it's oilers askin' to be, 40 

and labour's, 35 

as they did, 51 

forgot as soon as, 407 

for us, what has posterity. 311 

in the right way, can best be, 459 

nay I have, 296 

ne'er can say my work is, 451 

so little, 94 

something attempted, something, 
410 

still be doing, never, 329 

the deed, I have, 83 

things won are, 198 

thy long day's work, 35 

what has by man been, 94 

what's, 172 

when love is, 281 

what were good to be, 397 

will all be, 257 
Doom, by which he meets his, 106 

can half-control his, 338 

did receive, hard, 115 

my blessing, not my, 459 

the loud trumpet of eternal, 353 

to the scaffold and the, 351 

unriddled, our, 103 



542 



Index 



Doomed for a certain term, 380 

to pay, hourly, 106 
Dooms one to those dreadful words, 
68 

our birthdays bring, 25 
Doomsday, houses . . . last till, 164 
Door, 96 

a knock at the, 84 

and closed the, 221 

another name was on the, 275 

good John, shut the, 206 

have borne him to your, 375 

his fiddle hehind the, 261 

is brought to death's, 31 

new face at the, 119 

no spiked and panelled, 31 

of darkness through, passed the, 
72 

of her house, at the, 296 

of thy heart, open the, 240 

open then the, 77 

slam the, 94 

stand within that holy, 115 

stood at the open, 194 

take thy form from off my, 19 

the locking of the, 91 

the Pale Horse, stands, at my, 186 

there was the, 423 

were shut, as if a, 52 

write on your, 28 
Doors, goings in and out these, 222 

of breath, the, 118 

to let out life, 79 

with flame, I shuttered my, 284 
Dormouse, 96 
Dote on his very absence, 1 

nature, they say, doth, 179 

upon a jest, 196 

when wit doth, 136 
Dotes on truer charms, that, 246 

yet doubts, who, 243 
Double debt to pay, a, 295 

drill, and no canteen, it's, 395 

quantity of salt, to add a, 349 

sense, in a, 318 

set, a, 100 

thread, sewing at once with a, 362 

thy distress, and, 265 

wrong, he does me, 134 
Doubler tongue than thine, with, 412 
Doublet and hose, when he goes in 
his, 251 

and hose ought, 68 

for w-earing his new, 322 

of the Lincoln green, a, 403 
Doubling his pleasures, 443 
Doubly dying, and, 65 

sure, I'll make assurance, 14 
Doubt, 97 

against the shafts of, 120 

and certain-sure belief, trembling, 
234 

and death, poor child of, 330 

and soundest casuists, 94 

beyond, all, 155 

defects of, 160 



Doubt 

dimmed the light of heaven with, 
155 

distract, horror and, 178 

I '11 see before I, 195 

in, we '11 go together, 377 

never stand to, 14 

no, to be sure, 284 

not through the ages, yet I, 322 

or blame, that none might, 274 

spout out, jealous, 115 

to, would be disloyalty, 337 

to solve a learned, 433 
Doubted, never, clouds would break, 

337 
Doubting in his abject spirit, 34 
Doubtless God never did, 10 
Doubts, 97 

and fears, saucy, 41 

are fear, the littlest, 238 

who dotes yet, 243 

who tempt with, 347 
Dough, my cake is, 41 

on both sides, 41 
Douglas, 97 

blood, ne'er cools the, 4 

in his hall, 85 

tender and true, 140, 352 

wets his manly eye, when, 398 
Dove, 97 

as valiant as the wrathful, 422 

changes on the burnished, 241 

more of the serpent than the, 205 

roar you as gently as any sucking, 
339 

the hawk shall nestle with the, 300 

with a fondness of a, 173 
Dovecote, like an eagle in a, 106 
Doves say, what do the, 235 

will peck in safeguard of their 
brood, 463 
Dowagers for deans, 162 
Down, 97 

as low as high, 7 

it merrily, and, 32 

now, now up, 39 

or pardoned being, 260 

quite, quite, 263 

smoothing the raven, 282 
Downhill it is, yet, 460 
Downright loving, the, 203 
Downs, and o'er unhabitable, 252 
Downstairs, why did you kick me, 93 
Doxy, heterodoxy is another man 's, 
291 

orthodoxy ... is my, 291 
Dozing all the day, 101 
Drachmas, drop my blood for, 267 
Drag thee down, weight to, 189 

the slow barge, 386 
Dragon, 98 

Dragonish, cloud that's, 56 
Dragon 's tail, baited with a, 439 
Drags its slow length along, 6 
Drain, a bumper I, 51 

jars were made to, 445 



Index 



543 



Drain the bowl, while we, 55 
Drained by fevered lips, 435 
Drains a people 's blood, sucks and, 64 
Drama with the day, 109 
Drank as 'twere their mother's milk, 
181 

delight, he, 295 

in joy, from which he, 107 

of the water again, and, 348 

your fill, eat and, 228 
Drapery of his couch, wraps the, 227 
Drat that cat, 44 

Draught of cool refreshment, yet its, 
435 

for a nauseous, 172 

he took a long and solemn, 181 

of heavenly pleasure, 402 

of Old England's ale, than a, 281 

sips the nearest, 232 
Draughts, full of supper and distem- 
pering, 393 

intoxicate the brain, shallow, 215 
Draw a cart, I cannot, 251 

a furrer straighter, nor, 249 

from the earth, 188 

in again, did soon, 129 

it, take a sword an', 156 

men as they ought to be, to, 294 

new mischief on, next way to, 271 

pleas for John Doe, some, 146 

sword for liberty, some, 146 

the curtain and show, 69 

the curtains close, 80 

the line somewheres, necessary to, 
225 

them, I would not, 103 

this curtain, 69 

this metal from my side, that I 
must, 442 

up the papers, lawyer, 292 

you to her with a single hair, 168 
Drawers, a chest of by day, 295 
Draweth out the thread of his ver- 
bosity, he, 424 
Drawing nothing up, growing old in, 

^ 39 

Drawn mature and perfect, 288 

out, linked sweetness long, 394 

the wine of life is, 270 

to him, our eyes were, 244 

up like morning dews, 19 

upon his memory, the gentleman 
has, 291 

with the lash, 199 

with the sword, 199 
Draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, 
356 

the sword reluctant, who, 317 

us with a single hair, 168 
Dray, steering like a, 215 
Dread and fear of kings, the, 260 

doth walk in fear and, 128 

no foe but debt, 184 

of something after death, 79 

shape, through this, 188 

that man should, 2 1 



Dread the loss of use, I rather, 421 

thing, the grave, 162 

to see, river so, 403 
Dreaded of man, 87 
Dreadful note, a deed of, 83 
Dream, 98 

a, a shadow, 219 

a hope beyond the shadow of a, 185 

as love's young, 236 

departs, when youth, the, 47c 

if this be all an idle, 237 

I wrought a murder in a, 272 

liberty, the prisoner 's pleasing, 217 

life is an empty, 221 

life is but an empty, 222 

life, what is it but a, 221 

like the hand which ends a, 77 

of her brooding breast, with a, 97 

of heaven, she did but, 105 

of life, when my, 236 

of passion, in a, 307 

or grave apart, to keep a, 220 

rebuild in it the music and the, 467 

sew them on in a, 460 

should be, bliss that such a, 293 

them all day long, not, 374 

the old men 's, 98 

we 're dead, and never, 235 
Dreamed, never, . . . wrong would 
triumph, 337 

that life was beauty, 104 
Dreaming, 98 
Dreams, 98, 99 

and lies down to pleasant, 227 

and slumbers light, pleasing, 371 

are, of such stuffs as, 428 

are made on, such stuff as, 428 

cannot picture, 209 

have boded, my, 211 

infest the grave, if, 98 

may come, what, 98 

of love and truth, 88 

of pleasure, what, 367 

of the future, rise from your, 409 

of youth recall, who vainly the, 470 

your old men shall dream, 98 
Dreamt it again, thrice ere the morn- 
ing I, 427 

of in your philosophy, than are, 303 
Drear and dark, the night both, 26 
Dregs were wormwood, he found the, 

464 
Drenched ... in fraternal blood. 
420 

me in the sea, 131 
Dress, a black, or a white, 295 

a sweet disorder in the, 364 

of thoughts, style is the, 391 
Dressed, 99 

all in my best, I 'm, 74 

how then was the devil, 87 

in a little brief authority, 251 

in an opinion, to be, 291 
Dresses, neat-handed Phyllis, 303 
Dressings fit, for every season she 
hath. 20 



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Index 



Drew from out the boundless deep, 18 

my midnight curtains round, 167 

near, their lips, 204 

them as they are, who, 294 

with one long kiss, once he, 204 
Dries them with his hair, 194 
Drift beyond his love and care, I can- 
not, 43 
Drifted by, that have, 434 
Drink, 99-101 

again, gapes for, 101 

a man may, 249 

as friends, eat and, 214 

before his wife, shall, 348 

below, wants but little, 249 

but I, every creature, 101 

but tears, she drinks no other, 399 

deep or taste not, 21s 

is another 's meat or, 309 

it down, I '11, 78 

John, 'twill do you good, 40 

nor any drop to, 435 

of it first, if the wife should, 348 

of schnapps, a goot long, 351 

on my score, all shall eat and, 267 

out of skulls, they, 379 

small beer, to, 130 

the toddy, 321 

the words you send, with mine eyes 
I '11, 466 

'tis to thee that I would, 439 

to me, wittles and, 187 

to my flame, summoned to, 274 

to poor damned souls, givin', 395 

to the general joy, 172 

to the lass, 210 

wine was made to, 445 

with him that wears a hood, 6 

with you, I will not, 41 

your honour's health, glad to, 310 
Drinketh dew, as sunlight, 204 
Drinking, 101, 102 

asses' milk and writing, this comes 
of, 466 

can do for him, what, 34 

deep, call, 102 

fresh and fair, with constant, 101 

largely sobers us again, 215 

is the soldier's pleasure, 16 

joys did first ordain, 16 

very merry, dancing, 7 1 
Drinks, and, 101 

all night, he that, 169 

hot blood for wine, who, 301 

no other drink but tears, 399 
Drip of the suspended oar, the light, 

286 
Drive, the horse I, 186 

the rapid car, or, 386 
Driven into her breast, this post was, 
388 

to church as to the parish pound, 52 
Driver sings, which the mad, 298 
Drives, that the devil, 87 
Driving far off each thing, 47 

the poor fry, 133 



Drones, purge the land of these, 133 
Droop and drowse, begin to, 282 

with heaviness, when they, 293 
Drop be spilt, let not a, 78 

every, hinders needle and thread 
438 

in the well, were 't the last, 439 

into thy mother's lap, thou, 228 

my blood, and, 267 

of allaying Tiber in 't, not a, 44s 

of blood, until every, 199 

of Christian blood, 134 

of ink, a small, 192 

tears as fast as the Arabian trees, 
399 

there's a spell in its every, 100 

to drink, nor any, 435 
Dropped a tear upon the word, 287 

from an angel's wing, 301 
Droppeth as the gentle rain, it, 260 
Dropping buckets into empty wells, 

39 
Droppings of the sky, the, 101 
Drops, dear as the ruddy, 443 

dear to me as are the ruddy, 443 

do something drown, these foolish, 
38i . 

her mask, tired dissimulation, 81 

in his vast and wandering grave, 347 

like kindred, no 

of rain, stones with, 252 

two, two mites, 265 

of red, the bleeding, 43 

that warm my heart, ruddy, 443 

the closing eye requires, 35 
Dross, 102 

and stuff, 266 

each ounce of, 177 
Dross-allayed, for what he lent him, 83 
Drove 'em, danced 'em, 363 

from out the mother's nest, 106 
Drown, 102 

a fly, or to, 377 

my manly spirit, 381 

Providence wun't, 320 
Drowned in the brook, 137 

in yonder living blue, and, 457 

where I am, 131 
Drowns him, sin that often, 101 
Drowse, begin to droop and, 282 
Drowsy ear of night, 22 

man, vexing the dull ear of a, 400 
Drudge, condemned to, 245 

disobedient, for a, 141 

into a kitchen, 232 
Drudgery, 102 
Drum, 102 

an' a fife, in front of a, n 

broken by trumpet and, 390 

rumble of a distant, 44 

the spirit-stirring, 125 
Drum-beat, whose morning, 112 
Drums, arms reversed and muffled, 
433 

begin to roll, when the, 180 

like muffled, 163 



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545 



Drunk, 102 

and no be, 249 

and once sober, once, 82 

must get, 193 

my share of wine, I have, 221 

their cup, have, 333 

the monks of St. Bothan's ale, I 
have, 267 

with choler, 50 

your water and wine, I have, 349 
Drunkenness, 102 
Drury Lane Dane slain, 115 
Dry, and keep your powder, 311 

as summer dust, 91 

death, fain die a, 80 

if perhaps you're, 321 

streaming tear to, 219 

when mother earth is, 101 
Dublin town, he built a church in, 348 
Ducat, and every part a, 103 

dead, for a, 75 

in six thousand ducats, every, 103 
Ducats, 103 

lend three thousand, 95 

ten thousand, to have it baned, 325 
Duck again as low, 400 

trailing like a wounded, 54 
Due, give the devil his, 87 

to the devil, and so give his, 87 

to the devil, give his, 87 

to the Moor my lord, 189 

upon the bond, here appeareth, 213 
Dug his fingers into the wet earth, 313 
Duke, genteelly damned beside a, 149 

he was indeed the, 219 

let us bury the Great, 27 r 

or lord, as, 248 
Dukedom large enough, my library 
was, 218 

volumes that I prize above my, 31 
Dull and dry, conversations, 62 

as night, 273 

ass will not mend his pace, 33 

at whiles, though it's, 460 

though gentle yet not, 84 

thy palm, do not, 146 

when I am, 196 
Dulled their eyes with sin, 155 
Dulls the edge of husbandry, 31 
Dumb, and the dead, steered by the, 

. 357 

driven cattle, be not like, 179 

modest men are, 265 

terror, when this, 147 

when the lips are, 174 
Dumblane, the sweet flower o', 364 
Dumb-shows and noise, inexplicable, 
„ 379 

Dump, game wasn't worth a, 77 
Dumps the mind oppress, 166 
Dumpy woman, I hate a, 94 
Duncan, hear it not, 205 
Dunce with wits, and a, 447 
Dunces, a wit with. 447 
Dune and headland, on, 139 
Dungeon, scourged to his, 227 



Dunsinane, till Birnam wood remove 

to, 25 
Dupe of to-morrow, 92 
Duped people, the, 106 
Dupes, 103 

if hopes were, 391 
Duplicates of it, often . . . have, 129 
Durance, 103 

Durst not play, could not, would not, 
306 

poet touch a pen to write, never, 
308 
Dusk, like the, 246 

of evening, 4 

were mine, thy dawn and, 230 
Dust, 103, 104 

a heap of, 334 

Alexander returneth into, 42 1 

and ashes, for, 361 

and from that scattered, 441 

an hour may lay it in the, 385 

away, steal his, 29 

bends above his, 145 

benison o'er the sleeping, 157 

but earth and, 89 

dry as summer, 91 

enclosed here, 29 

every pinch of human, 115 

in glitt'ring, 362 

lay the summer 's, 27 

lies dead, in the, 209 

no dawn, no, 285 

of Alexander, the noble, 421 

of books, amid the, 416 

our paper, make, 164 

perhaps a name, 274 

provoke the silent, 421 

returnest, to, 222 

Shovel, and we run to the, 56 

smell sweet and blossom in their, 
199 

so nigh is grandeur to our, 104 

the knight 's bones are, 29 

this grave, this, 406 

thou art, 222 

thou would'st not save, 76 

to kindred dust, ashes to ashes, 13 

to the vile, 65 

tread is on an empire's, 109 

when the original is, 123 

Wickliffe 's, shall spread abroad, 441 

write the characters in, 450 

ye tamely tread, 152 
Dustman's, as big as a, 22 
Dutch cheese, heel of a, 48 
Duties know, who their, 385 

meet, domestic, 452 

new occasions teach new, 281 
Duty, 104, 105 

and if we did our, 462 

and love a simple, 236 

and so much, 189 

as the subject, such, 454 

broke, no, 466 

dare to do our, 337 

for ever, the picket 's off, 311 



546 



Index 



Duty 

gives from a sense of, 7 

in unobtrusive ways of, 145 

joy was, 214 

party honesty is party, 297 

seemed to call, 90 

so ought they of, 318 

who thought his, 308 
Dwell a weeping hermit there, to, 34 

contented to, 446 

dame truth delights to, 418 

nor be where thou dost, 125 

therein, fiend-like is it to, 365 

where peace and rest can never, 299 
Dwellest thou, where, 43 
Dwelling in all Denmark, ne'er a 

villain, 426 
Dwelling-place, became thy, 377 

that the desert were my, 85 

what kind of, 176 
Dwelt, bard here, 18 
Dwindle, shall, shall blend, 78 
Dyeing scarlet, 102 
Dying, 105 

after, all reprieve's too late, 59 

all away, now, 32 

answer echoes, 382 

cause, ring out a slowly, 339 

daily, that we are, 79 

eyes were closed, thy, 139 

fire, behind a slowly, 301 

groans of the, 83 

hand, with, 47 

man to dying men, and as a, 314 

only fault was, 90 

rich, rage canine of, 336 

sigh, a sick man's, 119 

sun, dies with the, 281 

the old year lies a-, 468 

thus around us, 75 

to-morrow will be, 343 

tongueless, good deed, 83 
Dyspepsy, of a mental, 31 



E 



Each age, each kindred, 24 

at some well-remembered grave, 
163 

thing's a thief, 402 
Eager air, a nipping and an, 5 

for the fray, 12 
Eagle, 106 

fly away, as an, 336 

in his flight, from an, 282 

methinks I see her as an, 277 

pride like any, 316 

the screaming, flew, 181 

the soaring, of the Alps, 332 
Eagles, 106 

be gathered together, 184 
Eagles' wings, on, 351 
Ear, 106 

enchant thine, 93 

falling at intervals upon the, 52 



Ear 

give every man thy, 428 

hath not heard, 209 

he has the wrong sow by the, 378 

into my, 78 

it came o'er my, 273 

keep the word of promise to our, 

no Christian, can endure to hear, 



of 



3i7 



drowsy man, vexing the dull, 



of death, the dull, cold, 421 

of Eve, close at the, 408 

of him that hears it, in the, 196 

pierced the fearful hollow of thine, 
2S3 

plain as whisper in the, 69 

shot through the, 118 

the drowsy, of night, 22 

undulates upon the listening, 52 

voice in my dreaming, 98 

with unwounded, 400 
Ear-kissing, 106 

Earlier, in the days that were, 311 
Earliest at his grave, 67 

hour, to be the very, 210 

to the ground, 146 

years, pedigree traced to earth's, 
300 
Early and provident fear, 128 

nothing to him falls, 127 

reason I was up so, 211 

riser Mr. Gray has drawn, 151 

that we may call it, 211 

you've gut to git up, 431 
Earn his bread, when he might, 248 

there's little to, 132 
Earned a night 's repose, 410 

him, than ever proof itself would 
have, 287 
Earnest ef you fight, gut to be in, 131 

have no time to waste, men in, 416 

in downright, 96 

life is, 222 

of the things that they shall do, 461 

the grateful, of eternal peace, 298 

to do it in, 210 
Ear-piercing fife, the, 125 
Ears, 106 

fall together by the, 1 1 r 

falls into mine, 64 

howled in mine, 98 

if men had, 272 

lend me your, 341 

like softest music to attending, 412 

longer than anything else than 
their, 300 

more learned than the, 2 

noise of waters in mine, 102 

of corn, two, 162 

of flesh and blood, to, 381 

of the groundlings, to split the, 379 

polite, never mentions hell to, 178 

that aged, 196 

that are hoary, takes the, 326 



Index 



547 



Ears 
who shut your saintly, 217 
with ravished, 155 
Earth, 106, 107 

a few feet of cold, 229 

again, loves never on, 117 

a hell, by making, 177 

all that inhabit this great, 201 

all things in heaven and, 212 

and dashest him again to, 73 

and dust, but, 89 

and heaven, 'twixt, 255 

and lards the lean, 210 

and sky, bridal of the, 73 

and sky stand presently, till, 391 

(as far) as heaven from, 29 

a stage, the, 383 

a turf of fresh, 269 

below, on the, 409 

but from this, 406 

can yield me but a common grave, 

163 
circles the, 112 

crime deemed innocent on, 66 
deny it who can, star of, 113 
didst thou on, 377 
draw from the, 188 
dug his fingers into the wet, 313 
enjoy this bounteous, beauteous, 196 
ever stretched, the thickest cloud, 

159 
flop 'round the, 112 
from sullen, 210 
gets its price, 176 
give him a little, 29 
gives us, for what, 176 
has no sorrow, 375 
has no unpolluted spring, 403 
hath bubbles, the, 39 
his furrow stands, and to the last of, 

79 
huge foundation of the, 277 
in them than heaven, with less of, 

129 
is but an echo of the spheres, 272 
is dry, when mother, 10 1 
is faded, till the night of, 429 
is nor of heaven nor, 332 
is toil, but the blessing of, 409 
lay her i' the, 426 
look not like the inhabitants o' the, 

448 
loved and lost on, 179 
man marks the, 288 
men are spread about this, 75 
men at most differ as heaven and, 

259 
model of the barren, 80 
more things in heaven and, 303 
must borrow its mirth, 212 
no life was ever lived on, 98 
o'er a' the, 38 
of majesty, this, 112 
oh that that, 421 
on manhood's solid, 250 
on the bare, 86 



Earth 

perish from the circle of the, 276 
returns to, 410 
round about the, 152 
seems a paradise to me, 360 
shall glisten in the ray, 159 
shall not perish from the, 276 
shall reclaim her precious things, 

354 
should see, and God- illumined, 417 
suck in the, 101 

than heaven, breathing less of, 176 
than heaven, 'tis less of, 176 
that bears thee dead, 381 
that heaven upon, 2 1 
the, the sea, 196 
the axis of the, 15 
the bosom of the, 164 
the dust is, 421 
the expiring, 353 
the gayest soul on, 148 
the poor creature of, 135 
there be on, 316 
the soul he had on, 176 
the sunlight clasps the, 204 
the thirsty, soaks up the rain, 101 
this, 112 
though they come from the ends of 

the, 391 
thou wert not on the, 377 
to every man upon this, 89 
to heaven, from, 308 
to heaven it goes, from, 262 
to lift from, 233 
too dear, for, 2 1 
treads not the, 150 
truth crushed to, 415 
two paces of the vilest, 381 
words are the daughters of, 459 
unseen, spiritual creatures walk the, 

381 
upon her corpse, the, 388 
upon the lap of, 257 
was gay, when all the, 148 
we rise from the lowly, 208 
which bind men down to, 122 
who on, 247 
with her thousand voices, 154 

Earthly dignities, a peace above all, 
299 
longings, died to all, 91 
my vow was, 157 

Earthquake 's spoil is sepulchred be- 
low, 109 

Earth 's aching breast, the broad, 143 
a thief, the, 402 

biggest country's gut her soul, 277 
breast, in the green, 108 
contracted span, yet not to, 463 
crammed with heaven, 153 
earliest years, whose pedigree 

traced to, 300 
highest station ends in, 104 
woe, to endure life 's sorrow and, 242 
most happy choir, led, 244 
philosopher, and never, 418 



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Index 



Ease, 107 

and sweetness, graceful, 128 

gathered, or be with, 228 

give one another, 34s 

in hours of, 453 

in mine inn, take mine, 193 

in writing comes from art not 
chance, true, 467 

my heart, a little weeping would, 
438 

no healthful, 285 

not the doctrine of ignoble, 389 

that live at home at, 355 

they whom youth and, 105 

to hours of, 443 

Tom felt more at, 353 

weary and ill at, 291 

with golden, 224 
Easier, it's a good sight, 133 
Easiest for his feet, they were, 146 
Easily, and can more, 166 
Easiness, a property of, 70 
East, 107 

is east and west is west, 391 

is unveiled, the, 225 

it is the, 225 

I 've wandered, 222 

nor west, there is neither, 391 

of Suez, ship me somewhere, 392 

peered forth the golden windows of 
the, 393 

the great wind overhead is blowing, 
279 

to west, tobacco which from, 408 

to west, trembling on from, 143 

wind, but a soul goes out on the, 113 
Easter day, no sun upon an, 129 

wearing his new doublet before, 322 
Eastern skies, illumed the, 105 

windows only, not by, 224 
Eastward hill, the dew of yon high, 
269 

to the sea, lookin', 251 
Easy as lying, 'tis as, 244 

gait, and, 186 

getting up seems not so, 151 

is a bush, how, 128 

it is of a cut loaf, 435 

man, good, 164 

than wrong, though, 159 

trips, that the rich by, 176 
Eat, and be glad, 365 

and drank your fill, 228 

and drink as friends, 214 

and drink on my score, all shall, 267 

and some wad, 257 

an oyster, to, 292 

a rich juicy meal for the worms to, 
229 

but little meat, I cannot, 6 

chat as well as, 47 

dried oats, nor, 251 

ha'e meat and we can, 257 

it, stay and, 48 

soft water through hard marble, 252 

some part of my leek, make him, 216 



Eat, tempt the dying anchorite to, 349 

they have only stomachs to, 388 

thy cake, would'st thou both, 41 

together, we still have . . . ,224 

up the little ones, 133 

with the devil, that must, 87 

with you, I will not, 41 
Eaten, 107 

them, and worms have, 238 

to death with a rust, 345 

your bread and salt, I have, 349 
Eating, appetite comes with, 11 
Eats into itself, which, 26 

up himself, he that is proud, 320 
Eaves, 107 
Ebrew Jew, an, 197 
Echo, 107 

applaud thee to the very, 11 

came, the welcome, 274 

for evermore, word that shall, 84 

lasts a deal longer, its, 203 

I asked of, 25s 

of the spheres, earth is but an, 272 
Echoes flying, set the wild, 382 

on Fontarabian, 39 

that start, cruelly sweet are the, 258 
Eclipse, built in the, 18 
Economists and calculators, sophists, 

50 
Ecstasies, out of its agonies and, 210 
Ecstasy of love, the very, 238 

the living lyre, waked to, 109 

tide is in his, 18 
Eddies of the mighty stream, are, 322 
Eden, this other, 112 

took their solitary way, through, 
462 
Eden 's green and gold, 13 

rosy bower, dwelt no joy in, 450 
Edge, doth lose his, 206 

is sharper than the sword, whose, 
368 

of appetite, the hungry, 191 

of battle, on the perilous, 19 

of husbandry, dulls the, 3 1 

set my teeth nothing on, 309 
Edges, and some say knives have, 404 
Editor was born in Dublin, the, 294 
Education, 107, 108 

of the lad, in the, 467 
Educing good, still, 160 
Eel of science by the tail, holds the, 

192 
Effects from civil discord flow, 93 
Effort, the last, of decayed fortune, 

the life of toil and, 389 
Egg, 108 

is full of meat, as full of quarrels 
as an, 322 

is full of meat, full of wit as an, 447 
Eggs, 108 

and die, lay their, 64 

as a weasel sucks, 257 

brooding on fancy 's, 124 

in her nest, she has two warm, 97 



Index 



549 



Eggs 

yellow of two hard-boiled, 349 
Egotism wrong side out, apology is 

only, 11 
Egotist, 108 

Egypt, I am dying, 105 
Egypt 's dark sea, loud timbrel o'er, 
405 

fall, when, 322 
Eight, may lie abed till, 1 

times to-day, that's, 286 

to-morrow morn, I 'm off at, 132 

trumps in his hand, a man with, 415 

with three times, 73 

years, he had been, 393 

years together, I '11 rhyme you so, 
335 
Eighteen pence, offered twelve for, 326 

hundred pounds, or even, 42 

hundred years' profession, after, 42 

shillings a week, for, 42 

those, upon whom the tower, 193 

thousand pounds, 42 
Eighth day of March, on the, 348 
Either, how happy could I be with, 

47 
Elate with a dream, 97 
Elbow chair, played around her, 450 
Elbow chairs, convenience next sug- 
gested, 279 
Elbow-room, now my soul hath, 377 
Elder, 108 

race, a type of the true, 308 

than herself, the woman take an, 
454 
Electricity, love, heat, 237 
Elegy, swan sings her own, 273 
Element, burning and consuming, 4 

in luck, one constant, 307 

one law, one, 322 
Elements so mixed in him, and the, 
250 

the wars of, 191 

to strife, to dare the, 436 
Elements' rage, and the, 78 
Elephants, place, for want of towns, 

252 
Ell in hei^ht,_ was but an, 331 
Elm, the springy branches of an, 219 
Elms, 108 
Eiohim, the strong archangel of the, 

248 
Eloquence, action is, 2 

has drawn upon his memory for his, 
291 
Eloquent, 108 

Elysian, suburb of the life, 76 
Embalmed and pure, keep the soul, 
377 

in tears, 398 
Embark, when I, 18 
Embarked upon that little boat, 173 
Embase him, love did, 232 
Embaseth it, corrupteth and, 232 
Embellished with He said, and So 
said I, 62 



Embers, 108 

spent of ashes and of, 4 
Emblem of untimely graves, 88 
Embrace, 108 

me, as to, 98 

take your last, 118 

thee, sour adversity, 3 

then pity, then, 425 
Embraced . . . from the ends of op- 
posed winds, 409 
Embraces met, that ever since in 

love's, 294 
Embracing clouds in vain, 369 
Emetics, 109 

and sicker of, 363 
Emigrated, 109 
Eminence, kings climb to, 202 

raised to that bad, 107 
Eminent, for being, 46 
Emperor, this Czar, this, 80 

without his crown, an, 73 
Empire, 109 

in thee, contend for, 25 

of the sea, the, 354 

on, builds what empire far out- 
weighs, 317 

to found a great, 361 
Emotion, when the heart is so full of, 

Employ, how fit to, 229 

Employed, on selfish thoughts alone, 

223 
Employment, hand of little, 70 
Employments' wishing, of all, 446 
Empress, sits, crowning good, 385 
Emptiness of ages in his face, the, 180 
Empty, and fells her place is, 442 

boxes, a beggarly account of, 33 

glass, turn down an, 152 

hell is, 178 

quite, but as, 49 

wells, dropping buckets into, 39 
Emulation, shouting their, 43 
Enchant thine ear, 93 
Enchantment, 't is no spell of, 72 

to the view, distance lends, 93 
Enclose, and no cell, 262 
Encompass the tomb, 163 
Encounter darkness as a bride, 90 

in a free and open, 415 
Encumbered, galled, but what, 76 
End, 109 

and sans, 103 

and there an, 90 

artful to no, 462 

attempt the, 14 

dares send a challenge to his, 221 

day, come, night, 282 

death, a necessary, 80 

death the journey's, 77 

have not money enough in the, 434 

he makes a swan-like, 273 

in love of God, all, 269 

in lovers' meetings, 198 

in what all begins and ends in, 411 

is purposed, whose, 157 



550 



Index 



End 

is woe, where the end is, 159 

let us to the, 337 

long agony of this life will, 222 

of fame, what is the, 123 

of honest Jack, an, 168 

of language, nature's, 210 

of life cancels all bonds, 82 

of reckoning, truth to the, 417 

old Time shall lead him to his, 
267 

on't, and there's an, 450 

on't, so there's an, 450 

o' the table, 71 

rolls to its appointed, 322 

the black minute 's at, 78 

the boys get at one, 135 

them, by opposing, 19 

this strife and sorrow will, 94 

through life to the, 58 

to end, lies frae, 30 

to stand on, 381 

try the man, let the, 251 

which answers life's great, 224 

worst, can't, 159 
Endearing young charms, if all those, 

47 
Endeavour, and in the vain, 384 

resolute in, 54 

themselves, ought they of duty to, 

with impotent, 462 
Ended, 109 

his cares are now all, 44 

our revels now are, 428 

the griefs are, 464 
Ending, 109 

in the frost, the old year is, 290 
Endless sleep he wills, if an, 369 
Ends and uses, produces noble, 284 

by their privit, 1 1 1 

divinity that shapes our, 94 

frizzled like celery tips, their blunt, 
437 

in, what all begins and, 411 

in Here he lies, 104 

in place and power all public spirit, 
3°5 

marked, more are men's, 105 

of opposed winds, from the, 409 

of the earth, though they come 
from the, 391 

their races, 345 

to gain some private, 95 
Endure, no 

a stuff will not, 239 

but still, 35 

life's sorrow and earth's woe, 242 

the toothache patiently, 413 

their going hence, 157 

to hear, no Christian ear can, 317 

to obey, to, 113 

we first, 425 
Endured, most tolerable and not to 

be, 434 
Endures forever, surely God, 380 



Endures, guards her or with her the 

worst, 443 
Enduring forces, opposing and, 60 
Enemies, no 

have left me naked to mine, 357 

overthrown more than your, 465 
Enemy, no 

his own worst, 249 

men should put an, 33 

ship alongside that of an, 360 

to weigh the, 84 
Enemy 's dog, mine, 95 
Energy sublime, as the, 143 
Enfeebled, which is already, 425 
Enfold, gilded tombs do worms, 410 
Enforced ceremony, it useth an, 238 

who much, 209 
Enforcement be, let gentleness my 

strong, 23 
Engaged, art more 377 
Engendered in the eyes, 124 
Engine well, to treat his, 329 
Engine-driver of broad-gauge mail 

train, 315 
Engineer, no 

Engines, O you mortal, 125 
England, 110-112 

a labourer in Christian, 208 

expects every man to do his duty, 
104 

Germany, or Spain, 13s 

Greece, Italy and, 309 

mother England, 48 

not three good men unhanged in, 
259 

shall be in, 130 

slaves cannot breathe in, 368 

the flag of, 284 

the King of, cannot enter, 44 

the roast beef of, 2 2 

thy name shall yet warrant thy 
fame, 226 

tremble, made all, 87 
England 's ale, than a draught of Old, 
281 

Alfred named, truth-teller was our, 
418 

dead, where rest not, 113 

greatest son, this is, 167 

griefs began, ere, 166 
English, 113 

air could make her, sweet as, 343 

gentleman, a fine old, 149 

nation, trick of our, 160 

gun, nor ever lost an, 167 

labourer's wife, as an, 208 

minds and manners, no 

pluck, the surly, 307 

roast beef, 22 

soil, has no right on, 409 

tongue, all who speak the, 111 

undefiled, well of, 47 
Englishman, 113 

American as I am an, 8 

dear, more than all to an, 286 

is proud, 90 



Index 



55* 



Englishman 

words I 'm an, 47 
Englishman's food, roast beef was the, 

22 
Engrave it, had taken half a lifetime 
to, 264 

on adamant our wrongs we all, 467 
Engraven, deep on his front, 85 
Engrossing death, to, 118 
Enhances life and all its chances, 

noble thought, 284 
Enjoy my Malthus, I never can, 247 

this bounteous beauteous earth, 196 
Enjoyed, peaceful hours I once, 300 
Enlarge itself, never ceaseth to, 53 
Enmesh, with predestined evil round, 

365 
Enmity, proof against their, 302 

works of love or, 381 
Enniskillen, in the town of, 440 
Ennoble. 113 
Ennobled by himself, 385 

our hearts, it, 22 
Enoch as a brave God-fearing man, 

313 
Enormous weight could raise, 84 
Enough, cry out itself, 4 

it was not, 183 

she never gave, 141 

we are, 185 
Enquire for, whatever skeptic could, 

441 
Enriched our blood, 22 
Enriches, that which not, 275 
Ensign, 114 

'neath the shade of Freedom 's, 64 
Enslave their children 's children, 60 
Ensnare, tresses man 's imperial race, 

168 
Ensue, if evil thence, 452 
Entails twenty-nine distinct damna- 
tions, 71 
Entangling alliances with none, 6 
Entendeth ay, and most, 150 
Enter death, those who, 77 

here, ye who, 185 

life, souls draw when we, 76 

now, ye cannot, 211 

on my list of friends, I would not 
463 

still, but we can, 211 

the King of England cannot, 44 

there, I will not, 348 
Entereth, knowledge by suffering, 206 
Entering a room, on, 85 
Enterprise, of noble, 18 
Enterprises, impediments to great, 442 

of great pith, 61 

ripe for exploits and mighty, 470 
Enters, this viperous slander, 368 
Entertain, a wilful stillness, 291 
Entertainment, with, 146 
Enthralled, by which men aye have 

been, 321 
Enthroned in the hearts of kings, it is, 
260 



Entitle them, the laws of nature and 

of nature's God, 356 
Entitled to, more than that no man 

is, 383 
Entrance to a quarrel, beware of, 322 
Entrances, their exits and their, 383 
Entrap the hearts of men, 168 
Entwine, laurel wreaths, 304 
Envies us, poor creatures how they, 

388 
Envious tongues, to silence, 299 
Environ, what perils do, 302 
Environed me about, 98 
Envy, 114 

dared not hate, who, 434 

of less happier lands, 112 

that decried him, 122 
Epaulets worn't the best mark of a 

saint, 431 
Ephesian dome, that fired the, 123 
Epics in each pebble underneath our 

feet, 460 
Epicure, dish that tempts an o'er- 
gorged, 92 

would say Fate cannot harm me, 349 

would say, live while you live, 227 
Epicurus' sty, in, 181 
Epitaph, 114 

believe a woman or an, 67 

none wrote his, 145 
Epitaphs, of worms and, 164 
Epithet, 1 14 

suffer love, a good, 239 
Epitome, 114 
Equal eye, who sees with, 38 

feet are trod, by, 464 

good produce, 117 

made, and in the dust be, 103 

in full-blown powers, 318 

powers, can ne'er be, 241 

to all things, though, 141 

where all are, 114 
Equalized, 114, 115 
Equals the king to the shepherd, 369 

this, what blessed ignorance, 370 
Equivocation will undo us, 43 
Era, 115 

Erased, nor be, 465 
Erebus, his affections dark as, 273 
Erect, who stands, 248 
Erecting a grammar school, in, 317 
Erin, 115 
Err is human, to, 140 

art may, 277 

upon the sober side, always, 396 

weep for the frail that, 312 
Errand, and in your joyous, 152 

speeds, and his, 36 
Erred, nor am I confident they, 139 
Erring souls, who looks on, 52 
Error, and many an, 315 

dies of lockjaw, 415 

hurled, in endless, 462 

in religion, what damned, 330 

lies, in reas'ning pride, our, 316 

which some truth, the, 120 



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Index 



Error, wounded, writhes in pain, 415 
Errors fail, some female, 128 
Eruptions, breaks forth in strange, 277 
Escape a work so sad, 450 

calumny, thou shalt not, 42 

not the thunderbolt, innocents, 193 

whipping, and who should, 440 
Escaped my recollection, almost, 89 
Escapement, the clicking of the terri- 
ble, 403 
Espied a feather of his own, 106 
Essence, his glassy, 251 

pure, so soft and uncompounded is 
their, 381 
Established law, thet slow critter„2i2 
Estate and sunneshine flies of, 3 

fallen from his high, 121 . 

of very small, 175 

who had an old, 149 
Esteem and love were never, 158 

to love, to know, to, 221 
Esteemed above thy life, are not with 

me, 223 
Esteems your merit, how he, 405 
Eternal beadroll, on Fame 's, 47 

day, and a new morning brings, 13 

in the human breast, 186 

Night, Chaos and, 46 

peace, earnest of, 298 
Eternal's wrath appeased, by peni- 
tence the, 301 
Eternities, peaks of two, 222 

two, the past, the future, 222 
Eternity, that wander through, 90 

the clock tells of, 280 

through nature to, 89 

to feel the passion of, 402 

when time unveils, 411 
Ethereal sky, all the blue, 132 
Euchred, 115 

Euclio said and sighed, 91 
Euphrosyne, in heaven ycleped, 264 
Europe, better fifty years of, 45 
Evade, human power which could. 467 
Eve, 115 

brought woe to all mankind when, 
449 

close at the ear of, 408 

from noon to dewy, 122 

span, and, 149 

the bugbears of a winter's, 401 

the first of dupes, 103 

the son of Adam and of, 317 

upon the first of men, 2 
Even, us 

measure of immortal hope, 115 

was weary and old, which at, 442 
Evening, 116 

bell, twilight and, 18 

bells, those, 23 

by the waters, many an, 226 

care, housewife ply her, 175 

come in the, 59 

dusk of, 4 

each, sees it close, 410 

exhalation in the, 122 



Evening 

fantastic visions of the, 428 

skies, the dusk in, 246 

star, sunset and, 17 
Event, one far-off divine, 322 

to himself, the final, 340 
Events, coming, cast their shadows be- 
fore, 358 

in the course of human, 356 

of every day, the, 352 

stride on before the, 358 
Ever, 116 

and a good jest for, 196 

and ever, the curse shall be on thee 
for, 69 

and for ever, 125 

be friends, we must, 146 

for, and for ever, 334 

for, float that standard sheet, 17 

for, never, SS. 280 

independence for, 192 

still for, 125 

we parted for, 296 
Ever-heightening life, every phase of, 

224 
Everlasting farewell take, our, 125 

the, had not fixed, 134 
Evermore, adieu for, 3 

and shall be for, 289 

from his grey hairs gone for, 121 

shall be Yes for, 468 
Every bush, misdoubteth, 25 

day, dying thus around us, 75 

day, the rain it raineth, 325 

day they live, something, 138 

ducat in six thousand ducats, 103 

heart best knoweth, 163 

hour, groaning, 56 

inch a king, 202 

man after his desert, use, 440 

man thy ear, give, 428 

man to do his duty, expects, 104 

minute, sighing, 56 

moment dies a man, 69 

one I knew, to, 320 

tongue brings in a several tale, 61 

word a reputation dies, at, 332 

word, church, church at, 52 
Everything by starts, 114 

else, in, 187 

good in, 3 

is for the best, 24 

we meet, there's fun in, 147 

which now thou art, being, 236 

who has not a conscience in, 62 
Everywhere, Be bold, 28 

I am with thee, 207 

out of the, 16 
Evidence against us, in bearing heavy, 
450 

to give in, 289 
Evil, 116 

all partial, 338 

and the good, warfare 'twixt the, 
433 

behaviour, her, 351 



Index 



553 



Evil 

be thou my good, 186 

do him good and not, 45 1 

from seeming, 160 

goodness in things, 160 

justified in doing, 117 

lost half its, 424 

love of money is the root of all, 267 

manners live in brass, 34 

money, the root of, 266 

news rides post, 281 

no man means, 88 

obscures the show of, 213 

or extremely, 251 

round, thou wilt not with predes- 
tined, 365 

side, for the good or, 83 

sign, an, 25 

soul producing holy witness, n 

spirit, an, at his birth, 283 

thence ensue, if, 452 

turn, wants but one more, 173 

we fear nae', 19 
Evils, 116 

Ewe bleat for the lamb, made the, 448 
Ewigkeit, afay in de, 297 
Exact man, and writing an, 326 

shade of Julius Csesar's hair, 58 
Exactness, with, grinds he all, 262 
Exalted sat, Satan, 107 
Examination, 'twill be found upon, 87 
Examine Venus and the moon, 306 

well his milk-white hand, 36 
Example, by Christian, 197 

by the same, 315 

may profit by their, 414 

you with thievery, I '11, 402 
Exceeds all earthly bliss, as far, 262 
Excel, of all those arts in which the 

wise, 467 
Excellence a fair divided, 168 

it cannot reach, and hates that, 114 
Excellent, oh, it is, 151 
Excess, better the, 28 

of blood, perish through, 447 

of ill-got, ill-kept pelf, 300 

of it. give me, 273 

wasteful and ridiculous, 152 
Exchange a peaceful word, nor to, 229 

joy is an, 198 
Exchequer of the poor, thanks, the, 

401 
Exclusive heaven, a sole, 176 
Excommunicated, nor, 64 
Excrement, stolen from general, 402 
Excuse for the glass, she'll prove an, 
210 

the worse by the, 128 
Excuses, not forced to frame, 250 
Excusing of a fault, 128 
Execute, a hand to, 173 

I will, 197 

laws which the people have made, 
289 
Executes a freeman's will, 144 

blow which while it, 8 1 



Execution in the morn, that wait for, 
333 

like a pardon after, 59 
Executors, 117 
Exercise depend, on, 172 
Exercises, to such preposterous, 210 
Exhalation in the evening, 122 
Exhaled, had sparkled as a dewdrop, 
was, 378 

she sparkled, was, 378 
Exile, hooting at Coriolanus', 43 

return with her from, 319 
Exist and to be glad, I manage to, 61 
Existence, called the New World into, 
16 

is a merry treat, 147 

secured in her, 191 

the things misnamed death and, 369 

time wasted is, 407 

't is woman's whole, 232 
Exits, they have their, 383 
Expatiates in a life to come, 186 
Expectancy and rose, the, 263 
Expectation, 117 

every day beguiled, 92 

rise, bids, 185 

to bury them, in, 254 
Expects his evening prey, 470 

every man to do his duty, 104 
Expediency, 117 

party courage is party, 297 
Expedient, to pursue the, 141 
Expenditure, annual, nineteen nine- 
teen six, 192 
Experience, 117 

my, tell ye wut it 's ben, 40 

old, but his, 198 

to make me sad, than, 261 
Expire, persons died before they, 91 
Explain his explanation, 117 

it, by trying to, 323 
Explained, is easily, 329 
Explanation, 117 
Exploits and mighty enterprises, ripe 

for, 470 
Exposed he lies, 86 
Expound, and argue, he could plead, 

283 
Express, even its minted coins, 157 
Expressed, but ne'er so well, 447 

in fancy, but not, 1 1 
Exquisite to last, joys too, 198 
Extension of domain, no 
Extent of your treasures, you learn 
the, 366 

proud of a vast, 353 

to any great, 340 
Extenuate, 117 

External parts, agree with our, 456 
Extracting sunbeams out of cucum- 
bers, for, 393 
Extreme gusts will blow out, 132 

hate in the like, 237 

in love or hate, in good or ill, 449 
Extremes, 117 

both ... in, 324 



554 



Index 



Extremes 

is such, the fate of all, 259 

of passion, 'twixt two, 297 
Extremity, a daring pilot in, 304 
Exulting, the people all, 43 
Exults and sings, in youth the heart, 

470 
Eye, 117, 118 

a blue and sunken, 239 

a lightsome, 403 

all of fire, the, 246 

and a tear in her, 371 

and listless, 274 

and pride in her, 316 

and the love-light in your, 387 

begets occasion, his, 196 

closed her bright, 142 

could never see, a friendly, 128 

dares not lend his, 312 

defiance in their, 316 

fruitful river in the, 448 

has danced to see, many an, 114 

hath not seen it, 209 

heaven in her, 161 

heaven of her delightful, 452 

her, lost its light, 153 

he taks the mother's, 469 

hide her shame from every, 136 

is it for fear to wet a widow's, 442 

like Mars, an, 250 

looks yellow to the jaundiced, 19 s 

more peril in thine, 302 

of heaven, as the great, 119 

of heaven, the beauteous, .152 

of him who made us, if we offend 
the, 107 

of newt and toe of frog, 179 

quick-glancing, whose, 410 

requires, the closing, 35 

repose, where may the wearied, 434 

seems wrong to man 's blindfold, 337 

shoots darts from her merry black, 
226 

shuts up sorrow's, 370 

squints the, 13s 

the poet 's, 308 

the postern of a small needle 's, 42 

there was lustre in his, 351 

to guide the seaman's, 245 

tongue, sword, 263 

what eye but such an, 322 

what immortal hand or, 405 

when Douglas wets his manly, 398 

which hath the merriest, 213 

which would forget to wake, 10 

who sees with equal, 38 

will mark our coming, there is an, 
438 

with its soft black, 148 
Eyebrow, made to his mistress', 242 
Eyelids closed, her quiet, 105 
Eyelids down, weigh my, 370 

heavy and red, with, 360 

if ever from your, 23 

inclines our, 370 

to kiss thine, 293 



Eyes, 118 

all my mother came into mine, 399 

and feast upon her, 238 

and his temples about, sported his, 

463 
and with rainy, 164 
are heavy and dim, till the, 460 
a stain, what looks to thy dim, 198 
because thou hast hazel, 322 
buried in thy, 174 
close up his, 80 
dear as these, 443 
drink to me only with thine, 99 
engendered in the, 124 
grow dim, that made your, 176 
hath not a Jew, 197 
have dulled their, 155 
hooded, shafts from, 23 
hood mine, 372 
I could play the woman with mine, 

399 
I could weep my spirit from mine, 

438 
I dared not close, my fevered, 369 
I '11 drink the words you send, with 

mine, 466 
I strain my, 313 
kindling her undazzled, 277 
knowledge from others', 394 
left the flushing in her galled, 399 
lies deeply buried from human, 186 
light that visits these sad, 443 
love looks not with the, 69 
make thy two, 380 
might sometimes see, our, 321 
mine, have seen the glory, 153 
no speculation in those, 29 
not a friend to close his, 86 
of flame, in he came with, 87 
of the ignorant, 2 
of the sleepers waxed deadly, 77 
revengeful, fix, 28 
sans, 49 

saw with his own, 106 
sees with larger, other, 261 
severe, with, 199 
shall be turned to behold, when my, 

420 
sights of death within mine, 102 
smell onions, mine, 438 
soft, looked love, 334 
tears in his, 307 
that death bandaged my, 78 
that shone, the, 258 
that would not shrink, with, 420 
that you could turn your, 355 
the cynosure of neighbouring, 70 
the mind has a thousand, 281 
the night has a thousand, 281 
the steady keel, while follow, 43 
thet tell o' triumph, 299 
they strike mine, 364 
those cunning waters of his, 426 
through another man's, 170 
try to shut their saddening, 384 
were closed, thy dying, 139 



Index 



555 



Eyes 

were drawn to him, our, 244 

with air, mock our, 56 

with coin- weights shut, two, 208 

with his half -shut, 57 

with streaming, 76 

with the meek, brown, 246 

yawns before our, 178 
Eyesight, not with blinded, 350 
Eye-witness, against thine own, 150 



Fabric of this vision, the baseless, 428 
Face, 118, 119 

and limb, 418 

and may the cherubs on its, 68 

as a nose on a man 's, 285 

a stone is on her, 388 

counsel in his, 85 

day's disasters in his morning, 93 

familiar with her, 425 

full of woe, with a, 246 

give me a, 364 

grows old, the, 211 

he had a broad, 24 

his council and his, 154 

his furrowed, 225 

it, let him fearlessly, 461 

look on her, 128 

looks the whole world in the, 292 

must hide, false, 122 

my, is my fortune, 246 

my ten commandments in your, 59 

o' fire, her, 71 

of the dead, gazed on the, 313 

of the dead, on the, 311 

of the foe, breathed in the, 77 

looks the strong world in the, 410 

shade my lifeless, 75 

shuddering on thy, 377 

sometimes in a dead man's, 225 

spit in my, 218 

that can be given to a man 's, 219 

that sages have seen in thy, 373 

that smiles in yeer, 212 

the climber-upward turns his, 7 

the flash, and, 227 

the mist in my, 78 

the emptiness of ages in his, 180 

the public stare, can stand and, 449 

there is a garden in her, 343 

there, you find one, 290 

to face, talked with us, 308 

to face, when two strong men stand, 
39i 

too roughly, visit her, 243 

truth has such a, 425 

which all men knew, honest, 171 

voice, or form, or, 274 
Faces, 119 

all are gone, the old familiar, 307 

full of kindly, 182 

one of those, children loathe, 176 

stern defiance, in their, 130 
Facing fearful odds, 89 



Fact, the crowning, 144 

to put a, 218 
Factions, and cherish, 101 
Factories with blood,- build, 413 
Facts, 1 19 

of guilty acts, unknown, 99 

upon his imagination for his, 291 
Fade away, the stars shall, 191 

may flourish or may, 399 

no mose, the love that shall, 240 

or sorrow, 77 
Faded and gone, are, 342 

flower, but a little, 13s 

till the night of earth is, 429 
Fades o'er the waters blue 2 

the glimmering landscape, 209 

the last long streak of snow, 372 

youth, 221 
Fading away, like fairy-gifts, 47 

in music, 273 
Fail, 119 

but if you, 150 

ef we don't, 320 

or land or life, if freedom, 143 

rather than, 322 

swell out and, 52 

with me, my purpose should not, 
446 
Failed him, one word for ever, 283 

till language quite, 389 

who strove and who, 61 
Failings, 119 
Fails, one sure if another, 71 

to see a bad one, never, 70 
Fain die a dry death, 80 

have all men true, 150 

would I climb, 55 
Faint, 120 

and yield, where thou would'st 
only, 198 

know all words are, 459 

now, as farewells, 52 

praise, damn with, 71 

weary and, 182 
Fainting spirit fell, ere my, 439 
Fair, 120 

all thet 's honest, honnable and, in 

and free, come, thou goddess, 264 

and young, ever, 16 

and young, was she very, 200 

are kind, still the, 141 

arms are, 13 

deserves the, 34 

forms, and hoary seers, 334 

hand that writ, 169 

house built on another man's 
ground, 187 

if women could be, 455 

most divinely, 94 

lady, ne'er won, 120 

learned and, 180 

looks, but love, 189 

loved the brightest, 185 

or foul, be, 221 

the, the chaste, and unexpressive 
she, 358 



556 



Index 



Fair 

this life which seems so, 461 

thoughts be your fair pillow, 304 

to no purpose, 462 

to see, a maiden, 24 

woman, never a, 119 
Fairer, 120 

Fairies, none but, here are seen, 304 
Fairly bound, so, 30 
Fairy gifts fading away, like, 47 

hands their knell is rung, by, 34 

ring, or to tread our, 304 

tales of science, with the, 352 
Faith, 120, 121 

almost mak'st me waver in my, 378 

and hope, two cardinal virtues, 315 

and love, works of, 267 

and morals hold, the, 412 

and pride, glows with, 173 

and unfaith can ne'er be equal 
powers, 241 

an' truth, wut 's words to them 
whose, 19 

fought for queen and, 105 

have, and struggle on, 391 

have thine own, 312 

I build my, 155 

in all, is want of, 241 

in God and nature, 156 

in honest doubt, more, 97 , 

in the Christ, thou who hast, 242 

is but the flower, 327 

itself be lost, 376 

law, morals, all began, 269 

many in sad, 416 

perplexed in, 97 

shall make a clearer, 466 

so long as, 219 

teaches us little, 179 

than Norman blood, simple, 148 

that right makes might, let us have, 
337 

they had denied, of the, 34 

they have in tennis, 401 

true, and ready hands, 259 

upon, such as do build their, 329 

woman 's, 450 
Faithful, 121 

I would be so, 97 

of thy word, 124 

wife, without debate, the, 442 
Faithless, among the, 121 
Faithlessness is party dishonour, 

party, 297 
Faith 's pure shrine, they sought a, 464 
Falcon, 121 

in our glove, our, 344 

soar her swing, let the wild, 344 
Fall, 121 

and her bay- tides rise and, 32 

and some by virtue, 36s 

and their shackles, 368 

another thing to, 400 

back into my chair, 284 

by dividing, we, 420 

divided we, 420 



Fall 

dost mark the sparrow's, 84 

ere we come to, 260 

full well he may, as, 308 

half to rise and half to, 462 

he that is down need fear no, 97 

I fear to, 55 

if we must, 259 

in Adam 's, 2 

into Charybdis, I, 353 

into sin, man-like is it to, 365 

it had a dying, 273 

lest we, 313 

like a bright, 122 

like men, let us, 259 

no lower, can, 97 

no use buiidin' wut 's a-goin' to, 40 

of a sparrow, providence in the, 320 

one of them shall not, 320 

or a sparrow, 38 

out with a tailor, didst thou not, 322 

out with dirt, to, 361 

startles thousands with a single, 8 1 

successive, they, 250 

take them as they, 309 

the blossoms, 154 

the curtains, let, 116 

the weak that, 312 

they must stand or, 202 

together by the ears, in 

to rise, held we, 337 

to sin, impute my, 365 

upon the sod, as snow-flakes, 144 

with gentlest, 18 

wha' last beside his chair shall, 201 

when Egypt's, 322 

when their leaders, 271 

where fall it may, 10 
Fallen, 121 

and the weak, for the, 368 

arise, or be for ever, 15 

cold and dead, 43 

from high, rich china vessels, 362 

from his fellow's side, 90 

head, to trample round my, 76 

on evil days, though, 116 

sadly off, have, 469 
Falling, 121 

a star was, 384 

prone, so that, 313 

star, like a, 122 

the fear's as bad as, 371 

to the prompter 's bell, slow, 70 

with soft slumbrous weight, 370 
Falling-off, 121 
Falls, 121, 122 

as I do, 164 

asunder at the touch of fire, 38 

before us, 17 

from a steady heart, 265 

from the wings of night, 282 

the Coliseum, when, 57 

the great man never, 164 

with the leaf, 372 
False, 122 

again, proved, 95 



Index 



557 



False 

and friendly be, both, 24 

and hollow, all was, 122 

any other thing that 's, 67 

as dicers' oaths, as, 287 

creation, a, 70 

in friendship, 385 

Latin, I smell, 211 

of heart, never say that I was, 2 

pride in place and blood, 54 

prints, credulous to, 433 

to God, while we are doubly, 213 

to any man, canst not then be, 415 

we are by nature, 83 
Falsehood, 122 

no, 416 

strife of Truth with, 83 
Falsehood's honey it disdained, 411 
Falsehoods, 122 

for a magazine, furnish, 245 
Falstaff sweats to death, 210 
Falter, to, would be sin, 337 
Faltering feet, often, 324 
Fame, 122—124 

again increasing, and, 421 

and gives immortal, 272 

and light is thy, 428 

and not to, 53 

and profit, ere her cause bring, 34 

be mine, could, 275 

fresh and gory, from the field of his, 
153 

he sought be just as fleeting yet, 62 

is shrewdly gored, my, 332 

I would give all my, 6 

love, wine, ambition, 274 

name shall yet warrant thy, 226 

nor too fond of, 46 

nor yet a fool to, 466 

out to wealth and, 214 

sang of love and not of, 241 

shall twine for me, 104 

the deck it was their field of, 288 

the speaking- trump of future, 274 

to his dead, 121 

unknown, and to, 257 

use gave me, 42 1 

wade in wealth or soar in, 104 

wealth, and honour, what are you, 
237 

well secured our, 89 

were thine, that, 275 

what once had . . . wealth and, 
334 
Fame 's eternal beadroll, on, 47 

eternal camping-ground, 26 
Familiar, 124 

as his garter, 161 

in his mouth as household words, 
275 

with her face, 425 
Familiarity, I hope upon, 238 
Family, 124 

glee, full of, 441 

my, think it indispensable, 382 

one of Eve's, 115 



Family 

wants of a young, 48 
Famine drew the bolt, till, no 
Famous, 124 

victory, 't was a, 425 
Fanatic, foul-tongued, 108 
Fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 

our, 454 
Fancy, 124 

bids, if so your, 153 

but not expressed in, n 

feigned, sweet as those by hope- 
less, 205 

free, in maiden meditation, 257 

her, is so flexible, 319 

is some men's, 187 

makes me more than king, 402 

now my sere, 223 

of most excellent, 468^ 

paints, if our conduckis n't all your, 
349 

still my sense in Lethe, 98 

the lips we press in sparkling, 55 
Fancy's child, sweetest Shakespeare, 

432 
Fane of God, the, 114 
Fanged with murderous stones, 387 
Fangs, beware my, 95 
Fantasies that apprehend, such shap- 
ing, 243 
Fantastic if too new, alike, 126 

round, in a light, 409 

toe, on the light, 409 

tricks, plays such, 251 
Fantasy, nothing but vain, 99 
Fantasy's hot fire, it is not, 237 
Far and near, from, 52 

as springs will, as, 173 

away, and o'er the hills and, 463 

away, and was it, 176 

away, over the hills and, 180 

between, few and, 9 

between, short and, 9 

from gay cities, 68 

from home was he, 182 

from the madding crowd, 68 

see ever so, 178 

that little candle, 42 

til that hit be so, 53 
Far-blazing from the rear of Philip 's 

house, 25 
Far-called our navies melt away, 139 
Fardels bear, who would, 79 
Fare like my peers, 78 

thee well, and if for ever, 125 

thee well, beloved, 125 

thee well, Isle of Beauty, 1 

worse, one might go farther and, 
321 
Farewell, 124, 125 

a long farewell, 164 

and looks around to say, 70 

and mercy sighed, 142 

goes out sighing, and, 438 

hope, and with hope farewell fear, 



558 



Index 



Farewell 

hope . . . bade the world, 142 

I only feel, 242 

no sadness of, 18 

remorse, 186 

sweets to the sweet, 395 

to Lochaber, 229 
Farewells, faint now as, 52 
Farmer, my father 's a, 246 
Farmer 's cad, here I come to be a, 200 
Farmers stood, here once the em- 
battled, 362 
Far-off divine event, one, 322 
Farther, gets the narrower by going, 

276 
Farthest from the fear, the, 127 
Farthing, two sparrows sold for a, 320 
Farthings, five sparrows sold for two, 

320 
Fashion, 126 

our own hands, 67 

planted, in all the world's new, 303 

the glass of, 263 

the high Roman, 341 

the old, 191 
Fashioned as the artist wills, made to 
be, 107 

others, that, 263 
Fashions, 126 
Fast, 126 

and furious, grew, 264 

and the world goes by, 129 

and weep, wherefore should I, 365 

an CEdipus-people is coming, 301 

a week with bran and water, 312 

come he, 79 

if the child was too, 348 

more grievous torment than a her- 
mit 's, 235 

the horse I drive so, 186 

to, like one that takes diet, 239 
Fasted, on Fridays when they, 267 

when you, 239 
Fasten, before any vice can, 425 
Fastened, unless it is tightly, 206 
Faster, 'madness only makes them go, 
403 

than gnats in cobwebs, 168 

than his tongue, 118 
Fasting, thank heaven, 238 
Fasts I keep, because of the, 78 
Fat, 126 

and grows old, one of them is, 259 

more, than bard beseems, 18 

oyster, 't was a, 292 

paunches have lean pates, 298 
Fatal and perfidious bark, 18 

shadows that walk by us still, 2 

dart, feather on the, 106 

vision, art thou not, 70 

word, that, 124 
Fate, 126, 127 

a heart for any, 2 

a heart for every, 2 

and mine are one, eagle's, 106 

and wish agree, 15 



Fate 

but in our, 86 

cannot harm me, 349 

changeless sentence of mortal, 211 

entailed the mother 's throes, 59 

fear no sudden, 227 

forced by, 13 

found a rare soul, 244 

fulfil, change and, 154 

in spite of, 221 

master of his, 141 

of all extremes is such, 259 

of a nation was riding that night, 
276 

of the peasant, when a prince to 
the, 317 

of woman, it is the, 451 

reserves, which, 119 

take a bond of, 14 

that then denied him, 122 
Fates, 127 

may be, though far our, 237 

when once the, 75 
Father, 127 

Adam sat under the tree, 13 

and mither, though, 440 

antic the law, old, 213 

disobeyed, no, 466 

forgive them, 140 

hear my prayer, 313 

is alcalde, he whose, 5 

I thank thee, 109 

no more like my, 37 

of spirits, to the, 298 

of the man, 49 

preferring you before her, 189 

say, asked but what he heard his, 
416 

take them, 13 

to that thought, thy wish was, 446 

was a Gallagher, his, 348 

what is your, 246 

without your, 320 
Father 's brother, but no more like 
my father, 37 

grave did utter, 37 

house, chimney in my, 36 

house, nearer my, 278 

life, the serpent that did sting thy, 
356 

spirit, I am thy, 380 
Fathers, 128 

brothers, sisters, 129 

deemed it two, our, 139 

died, land where my, 65 

fools, we think our, in 

the ashes of his, 89 

the birthplace of our, in 

the spirits of your, 288 
.Fatter, would he were, 126 
Fattest hog, the, 181 
Fault, 128 

a noble fool was never in a, 397 

dear Brutus, the, 127 

deem it not a, 349 

flies every, 231 



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559 



Fault 

he that does one, 218 

his only, 90 

holds him as one without a, 12 

I see, to hide the, 260 

just hint a, 71 

than they, their stars were more in, 
456 

which needs it most, a, 218 
Faultily faultless, 128 
Faultless, 128 
Faults, 128 

a little blind, be to her, 201 

and folly, your neebours', 305 

England, with all thy, no 

lie gently on him, his, 333 

need deal lightly with thy, 450 

not free from, 46 

observed, all his, 15 

than hairs, more, 168 

to scan, their merits or their, 305 

were his own, his, 261 

will not be hid, my, 365 
Faults' books, their own, 119 
Favour, a floating balance in their 
own, 352 

to this, she must come, 468 
Favours, when Fortune, 141 
Fawn at his feet, 't will, 461 

on you, I will, 378 
Fawning publican he looks, how like 
a, 320 

where thrift may follow, 412 
Fawns, the young, are playing with 
the shadows, 469 

upon the lamb, when the lion, 226 
Fealty, our country claims our, 259 
Fear, 128 

above, all, 155 

a name of, 419 

and hope and longing unexpressed, 
234 

and not of, 84 

and the sorrow, the, 109 

and with hope, farewell, 186 

a shadow and a, 69 

a stranger to, 197 

death, to feel the fog, 78 

death as children fear, 77 

each bush an officer, thief doth, 394 

him not, but I, 126 

his terrible shape, I hardly, 78 

if my name were liable to, 126 

is affront, 450 

no fall, he that is down need, 97 

no more the frown, 146 

no more the heat o' the sun, 103 

nor hope, I neither, 369 

nor love, nor, 367 

not guilt, those who, 123 

not the anger of the wise, 332 

of an imminent danger, just, 430 

of burning, for, 131 

of his trial hath no, 5 

of kin^s, the dread and, 260 

o' hell's a hangman's whip, 184 



Fear 

our cry, let the nations, 143 

peace wun't keep house with, 299 

preoccupateth it, 77 

that men should, 80 

the Arch, 78 

thee, ancient mariner, I, 253 

thee not, I, 395 

the farthest from the, 127 

the littlest doubts are, 238 

there is not a word of, 78 

thy skinny hand, I, 253 

'tis time to, 419 

to lament or, 65 

to speak, they are slaves who, 368 

to tread, where angels, 138 

to tread, wheels rush in where 
horses, 439 

to wet a widow 's eye, is it for, 442 

we 11 come to harm, I, 267 
Feared, 128 

that what he, 394 
Fearful night, 'tis a, 304 

summons, upon a, 57 

thing, it is a, 376 

trip is done, 43 
Fearing to attempt, by, 97 
Fear 's as bad as falling, the, 371 
Fears grow great, where little, 238 

he that but, 394 

his fate too much, he either, 126 

it, t' avoid misery, 422 

its joys and, 404 

may be liars, 391 

my hopes for half thy, 409 

not danger's post, breast that, 14s 

our hopes belied, 105 

saucy doubts and, 41 

to plunge with all your, 79 

with hope, twining subtle, 186 
Fear'st thy death, grossly, 80 
Feast, 129 

as you were going to a, 99 

at any good man 's, 23 

bare imagination of a, 191 

chief nourisher in life's, 370 

is set, the, 167 

of Crispian, is called the, 66 

of reason and the flow of soul, 327 

one, one house, 170 

upon her eyes, and, 238 
Feasted thus, since we have, 380 
Feasts, compared to public, 253 
Feather, a wit's a, 183 

care as light as a, 361 

is wafted downward, as a, 282 

of his own, espied a, 106 

of the blue, a, 403 

on the fatal dart, 106 

so lightly blown, was ever, 271 

the, whence the pen, 301 

to waft a, 377 

will turn the scale, a, 351 
Feathers plucked, their own, 106 

to thy heels, set, 171 

when fowls have no, 142 



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Index 



Feature, in form and, 418 

to each hard-working, 314 
Features, ah, the coarsest, 259 
February face, such a, 119 
Fed from within, 250 

his former bounty, 86 

on, grown by what it, 1 1 

our sea for a thousand years, we 
have, 113 

with gazing, 124 

with the same food, 197 

worse, than your hogs and your 
sheep, 323 
Federal Union, the, it must be pre- 
served, 420 
Federation of the world, the, 433 
Fee, set my life at a pin's, 223 

the doctor, than, 172 

the priest hath his, 176 

thrice thy, 381 
Feeble, 129 

faith, a, I would not shake, 120 

hand, a sinful heart makes, 366 

hands and helpless, 156 
Feed fat the ancient grudge, 166 

he that doth the ravens, 326 

his sacred flame, 234 

my revenge, it will, 335 

on cates, than, 399 

on her damask cheek, 298 

on the air. Love can, 240 

on this fair mountain, leave to, 269 

upon nothing, to, 308 

-were best at home, to, 129 

what would thousand others, 300 
Feeding, starve with, 9 

upon them, to persist in, 109 
Feeds and breeds, that, 402 

three, 181 
Feel and dare, a heart to, 173 

another's woe, teach me to, 260 

as I used to feel, to, 430 

farewell, I only, 242 

for man, it does not, 38 

have felt and, 233 

in any member, no comfortable, 285 

instinctively I, 163 

I only, 125 

it, doth he, 185 

it too well, I can, 327 

like a child, do n't, 49 

much more the heart may, 174 

she seems to, 200 

that I am happier than I know, 170 

the friendly stroke, ere we, 89 

the infinite in me, I, 230 

thy very wishes, to, 293 

what they inflict they, 455 

whether a shoe be Spanish or neat 's 
leather, 20 

within me a peace, and I, 299 
Feeling, 129 

as to sight, 70 

care not for, 67 

deeper than all thought, 403 

divested of, 364 



Feeling 

has this fellow no, 70 

from the Godhead, a, 233 

of sadness and longing, 375 
Feelings, 129 

I had immortal, 230 

not in figures on a dial, 227 

prove that you have human, 58 

wither, when the warmest, 125 
Feels at each thread, 380 

her place is empty, and, 442 

his way, the mannikin, 15 

it instantly, she, 380 

not the toothache, he that sleeps, 
37i 

the noblest, 227 
Feet, 129 

and fell at his, 194 

and head, weeping at the, 74 

and when he will to cast it at his, 
107 

are weary and sore, thy, 162 

a stone at the, 229 

blood on your pointer 's, 148 

crossed in rest, two pale, 208 

epics in each pebble underneath our, 
460 

fireside pleasures gambol at her, 45: 

freedom's soil beneath our, 17 

have trod the ground, blessed, 328 

have wings, the, 470 

Iscariot washes the bridegroom 's, 
194 _ 

nothing walks with armless, 160 

marks of angels', 460 

of cold earth, a few, 229 

of peace, war-sick at the, 300 

proud at his, 353 

standing with reluctant, 246 

stays our hurrying, 79 

they pinched her, 208 

they were easiest for his, 146 

tread beneath our, 170 

'twill fawn at his, 461 

walked those blessed, 67 

where my, have trod, 207 

with flying, 71 
Feigned, sweet as those by hopeless 

fancy, 205 
Feigning, the truest poetry is the most, 

309 
Feline foe, mauls some, 44 
Fell, 130 

down, all of us, i2i_ 

ere my fainting spirit, 439 

foremost fighting, 131 

I do not love thee, Doctor, 327 

in the battle of life, 61 

like the stick, he, 340 

my lady, 57 

swoop, at one, 49 

the hardest-timbered oak, 390 

till from itself it, 112 

upon a day, as it, 256 
"Feller" was you saw her with, who 
the, 363 



Index 



561 



Fellow almost damned in a fair wife, 
a, 382 

and want of it the, 465 

a robustious periwig-pated, 379 

beats all conquerors, a lean, 61 

do unto the other, 82 

he's a good, 178 

in a market-town, a, 326 

in the firmament, no, 62 

may be straighter 'n a string, 187 

no feeling, has this, 70 

should have fewer words than a par- 
rot, 295 

suppose some, 279 

thru, stick a, 156 

whom they call John, the young, 
403 

worm, to trample my, 177 
Fellow-creature's aid, of my, 313 
Fellow-feeling makes one wondrous 

kind, a, 201 
Fellow-man, to whale his, 171 
Fellow's a villain, that, 426 

side, fallen from his, 90 
Fellows, 130 

no patience with sech swellin', 156 

young, will be young fellows, 468 
Fells a knave, there he, 383 
Felony. 130 
Felt, all that I have, 233 

another 's woe, who, 448 

as a man, though he, 346 

a wound, that never, 351 

I have, 221 

or seen, a touch that 's scarcely, 350 

the lesser is scarce, 247 

when more is, 178 
Female countenance, at every comely, 
455 

errors fall, some, 128 

heart can gold despise, what, 44 

when a young, 363 
Female-tongue-running, thou, 397 
Fence, ox jumped half over a, 272 
Fens, reek o' the rotten, 69 
Ferrash strikes, the dark, 401 
Ferryman, 130 
Festal cheer, with, 101 
Festival, meeting at a, 224 
Fetch me now in fire, and the devil 
will, 448 

the dead, the devil to, 87 
Fetched, 'round be, 159 
Feud, 130 
Feuds, 130 
Fever, after life's fitful, 223 

called living is conquered at last, 
229 

called the tertian, he died of the 
slow, 441 

once when I had a, 286 
Few and far between, 9 

and short were the prayers we said, 
3*3 

or none would do beside, 159 

for the gain of a, 297 



Few, their wants but, 68 

they are that see it clear, how, 433 

those by death are, 2S9 

through which a, 214 

thy voice, but, 428 

to be chewed and digested, 30 

will be ever content, with, 205 

words are the best men, men of, 259 
Fewer men, the, 185 

words than a parrot, 295 
Fevered lips, drained by, 435 
Fiat millions slew, whose, 332 
Fib becomes due, when one, 82 

or sophistry, destroy his, 353 
Fibres net the dreamless head, thy, 

468 
Fibs, I'll tell you no, 323 
Fickle still, were firm, not, 455 
Fico for the phrase, a, 386 
Fiction, but in a, 307 

her cup was a, 100 

stranger than, 416 
Fiddle behind the door, hangs up his, 

261 
Fiddler, statesman, and buffoon, 114 
Fiddler's wife, kissed the, 263 
Fie, foh, and fum, 27 

upon "But yet!", 41 

upon your law, 213 
Field, 130 

and the street, smacks of the, 314 

an' hill, snow on, 152 

a scar brought from some well- 
fought, 198 

be lost, what though the, 231 

bore him off the, 138 

but for you possess the, 391 

equipment 'e could find, was all the, 
420 

gaining some hard-fought, 409 

he rushed into the, 131 

he that tossed you down into the, 
207 

I grew up in the, 259 

is slain, if he that in the, 184 

man for the, 454 

of air, through the, 386 

of fame, the deck it was their, 288 

of his fame fresh and gory, from the, 
153 

of thought, the free, broad, 403 

that never set a squadron in the, 

3 82 
there be six Richmonds in the, 337 
to die, like Hector in the, 28 
where they, upon this, 276 
Fields, and a' babbled of green, 359 
below him, the green, 235 
better to hunt in, 172 
by quiet, 18 
dales and, 235 
floods the calm, 268 
holy, over whose acres, 67 
of corn, Ruth among the, 120 
the little tyrant of his, 168 
the new street of the little, 389 



562 



Index 



Fields, toiling in the naked, 207 

were won, showed how, 68 
Fiend, a frightful, 128 

Flibbertigibbet, the foul, 135 

the devil 's wife was but a, 464 

thou marble-hearted, 192 
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, 

36s 
Fiehds, a legion of foul, 98 

be these juggling, 318 

they flew, the, 5 7 
Fiend-voices that rave, the, 78 
Fierce, safer being meek than, 159 

thing, that, 61 

zeal, showed their, 144 
Fierceness of the dove, 97 
Fiery floods, to bathe in, 90 

shapes, was full of, 277 
Fife, in front of a drum an' a, 1 1 

the ear-piercing, 125 
Fifteen minutes of hell, to have some, 

176 
Fifth, a, shall close the drama, 109 
Fifty, at, chides his infamous delay, 
251 

miles, he had journeyed, 106 

of them, fought not with, 324 

years, all o', in 

years ago, more than, 360 

years of Europe, better, 45 
'Fifty-three, runs north of, 212 
Fifty-four-forty or fight, 131 
Fie, a cherry and a, 162 

for the vicar, and a, 26, 226 
Fig-leaves for the naked truth, 

patching, 416 
Fight, 130, 131 

a harder matter to, 219 

always ready to swear and, 408 

a man may, 249 

and die for her, to, 189 

and none to, 388 

better, are baffled to, 337 

differing doctors and disciples, 162 

for freedom, they that, 143 

for love as men do, we cannot, 457 

growl and, 95 

have fought the good, 120 

I dare not, 48 

I have fought my, 221 

it out, spur on and, 383 

let graceless zealots, 120 

not to the strong, the, 324 

en to the last, 58 

or tyranny to, 219 

the bloody, blundering, 433 

the soul has closed in, 377 

through it, and we '11, 171 

through the perilous, 17 

to suffer, resist, 120 

we'll, and we'll conquer, 286 

when a shin in, 216 

when glory leads the, 143 

who knows the splendour of the, 



Fighting, 131 

devotion, dust, perhaps a name, 274 

had grown rusty, for want of, 26 

man, but a first-class, 147 

to show you 're up to, 299 
Fights, lives, breathes, labours, 176 

he that, and runs away, 130 

he that gained a hundred, 167 

he who, and runs away, 130 
Fig-tree, 131 

Figure moulded, and to this, 107 
Figures on a dial, not in, 227 
Filches from me my good name, he 

that, 275 
Fill a fair and honest cup, then, 68 

and drank your, 228 

another room in hell, 178 

a pit as well as better, 312 

every beaker up, 445 

it high, 10 1 

our bowls once more, 33 

the cup and fill the can, 69 

the speaking-trump of future fame, 
to, 274 

the world can never, 300 

up one monument, goodness and he, 
267 

with commerce, saw the heavens, 
59 
Filled that they o'erflow, 101 

with signs and portents, more, 165 

with such memories, 258 
Fillip me with a three-man beetle, 22 
Fills the room up, grief, 165 

the white and rustling sail, 359 
Film, though light as, 24s 
Fin, fish have no, 142 
Final blow, own genius gave the, 106 

goal of ill, 160 

trump, to wait for the, 77 
Find, didst thou this body, 377 

fast bind, fast, 126 

flowers, will, 135 

her, amid the dust of books to, 416 

he that sweetest rose will, 343 

linen enough, they'll, 226 

me, and thou shalt, 207 

me and turn thy back on heaven, 
*59 

out the way, love will, 231 

that better way, to, 397 

the wealth ye, 355 

weeds, may, 135 
Finding a smooth pebble, now and 

then, 417 
Finds the day, night is long that 

never, 282 
Fine, 131 

a point upon it, not to put too, 309 

a sight, is half so, 1 29 

how exquisitely, 380 

makes that and the action, 102 

within thee growing coarse, 56 
Finely wrought, too, 33 
Finer than the staple of his argument, 
424 



Index 



563 



Finger, from his ambitious, 8 

if she scratches her, 415 

its, was in the largest public pie, S4 

rest, the angel's, 91 

to lay his, 108 

touched him and he slept, 371 

writes, the moving, 465 
Fingers bloody red, with, 167 

cannot lick his own, 62 

contaminate our, 36 

he dug his, into the wet earth, 313 

in the salad-bowl, plunge his, 349 

pricking her, 304 

wan, with, no 

wandered idly, my, 291 

weary and worn, with, 360 
Fingers' ends, smile upon his, 359 
Finish off my lunch, to, 321 
Finished by such as she, 1 68 
Finite grasp infinity, how can, 192 
Finny prey, surprise the, 168 
Fire, 131, 132 

a clean heart and a clear, 175 

a clear, a clean heart, 175 

against my, 9 s 

all alone, to be poking the, 441 

and clothes, meat, 336 

and her pale, 402 

and sword and desolation, call, 329 

and sword, with, 425 

and the devil will fetch me now in, 
448 

are as bad as a, 332 

a spirit all compact of, 240 

as tapers waste that instant they 
take, 81 

as the flint bears, 209 

asunder at the touch of, 38 

a woman 's story at a winter 's, 389 

bastion fringed with, 19 

behind a slowly dying, 301 

bitterer than a thousand years of, 83 

gold must be tried by, 158 

hasty as, 324 

her face o', 71 

if ever the Prairie Belle took, 329 

immortal spark of that, 233 

in thy heart and a fire in thy brain, 
69 

I sit beside my lonely, 330 

i' the blood, 70 

i' the flint, 135 

laden, orbed maiden with white, 268 

love's a, 233 

must be the tongue of, 314 

no seraph 's, 176 

not fantasy's hot, 237 

not the fierce heat of, 4 

now stir the, 116 

of life, before the, 221 

of passion, allay the, 327 

oh for a muse of, 272 

O love, O, 204 

on a stallion shod with, 86 

pale his ineffectual, 153 

pregnant with celestial, 109 



Fire 

sat by his, 68 

set the heart on, 4 

shrivelled in a fruitless, 160 

sinks the, 139 

slackens, life declines, when the, 28 

speech ventilates our intellectual, 
380 

stars are, 97 

stranded with strings of, 244 

that warmeth cold, the, 369 

the eye all of, 246 

the motion of a hidden, 313 

the right Promethean, 118 

the sun is but a spark of, 376 

the tongue is a, 412 

to touch the, 120 

who can hold a, 191 

with wit, 283 
Fired another Troy, 177 

the Ephesian dome, that, 123 

the shot heard round the world, 362 
Firelight fell, as the, 280 
Fires, 132 

confined to fast in, 380 

live their wonted, 35 

spending all her, 377 

thee, no German Rhine-wine, 151 
Fireside happiness, to, 443 

pleasures gambol, 452 

the light of its own, 173 
Firm a heart, too tender or too, 236 

as the land, 267 

at his dangerous post, 304 

keep the soldiers, 104 

nerves, my, 72 

so, yet soft, 453 
Firmament, 132 

and the wide, 191 

no fellow in the, 62 

now glowed the, 268 
Firmer, better, shall be clearer, 450 
Firmest friend, in life the, 176 
Firmness in the right, with, 337 

shakes off her wonted, 162 
First, 132 

a little more trouble at, 96 

all words came, 458 

American, the, 8 

an' do it, 82 

breath, we draw our, 45s 

by whom the new are tried, 126 

city Cain, and the, 64 

cries, Hold, enough, 214 

degree, no creature owns it in the, 
284 

disobedience, of man 's, 93 

Eve, but if the, 115 

falls, the ripest fruit, 146 

fierce impulse unto crime, 66 

garden made, God the, 64 

garments, came in with our, 191 

green peas, the, 32 

is hailed, when the, 178 

let me be ever the, 146 

magnitude, thou liar of the, 217 



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Index 



First 

of men, Eve upon the, 2 

of men, richest, happiest, 402 

passion woman loves her lover, in 
her, 232 

rank of these, in the, 114 

requisite, the, of a good citizen, 54 

returns the, 159 

rude sketch, 13 

salmon, and the, 32 

sight, that loved not at, 242 

sight they loved, but at, 242 

that came away, I was the, 189 

■ that ever burst, we were the, 353 

the, in loftiness of thought, 309 

the good die, 91 

they are the, 328 

to welcome, the, 176 

when Britain, 37 

which mates him, 82 

who with best meaning have in- 
curred the worst, 464 
Fir-trees dark and high, the, 331 
Fish, 132 

as is the osprey to the, 278 

hangs in the net, here's a, 214 

have no fin, 142 

this, will bite, 16 

what cat 's averse to, 44 

wild-fowl, or venison, 36 
Fishers, 132 
Fishes, 132, 133 

all sorts of, 32 

gnawed upon, men that, 102 
Fish-hook, 133 
Fishified, how art thou, 134 
Fish-like smell, ancient and, 371 
Fit, 133 

for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, 
273 

the reason to the rhyme, hard to, 
335 , 

to employ, how, 229 
Fitful fever he sleeps well, 223 
Fitness comes by fits, a woman 's, 453 
Fits, 133 

all her children, nature, 67 

a woman 's fitness comes by, 453 

them all, the handle which, 218 
Fitter being sane, it's, 159 
Fitting of self to its sphere, rest is the, 

333 
Five, arts that thrive at Number, 13 

have I slain to-day, 337 

I dine at, 92 

sparrows sold for two farthings, 320 

wits, alone and warming his, 292 
Fix this thing for good an' all, 40 
Fixed like a plant, 306 

on futurity, 86 

the brazen hasp, and, 263 
Flag, 133 

has braved a thousand years, whose, 
no 

has flown, an English, 113 

is stayed, the English, 113 



Flag 

of Dixie, advance the, 94 

of England, the meteor, no 

of England, what is the, in 

of England blew free, the, 284 

of our union for ever, the, 420 

of the brave, the, no 

our, was still there, 17 

party that does not carry the, 420 

to April 's breeze unfurled, their, 362 

was new, when this old, 456 

wavin' chellenge, each torn, 299 

Flagon of sack, seven deadly sins in a, 
26 

Flags, 134 

my labour never, 207 

Flame, adding fuel to the, 147 
and feed his sacred, 234 
and its orbs of, 419 
in .<Etna 's breast of, 233 
in he came with eyes of, 87 
I shuttered my doors with, 284 
lacks oil, after my, 228 
my blood is liquid, 423 
of love, the ardent, 339 
summoned to drink to my, 274 
the volcano's tongue of, 24 
this fluttering spark of vital, 428 
to qualify, absence seemed my, 2 
vital spark of heavenly, 428 

Flames, but endless, 347 
in the light refulgent, 288 
yet from those, 72 

Flanders, our armies swore terribly in, 
395 

Flannel and sheeting, dealing out, 
175 

Flash, and face the, 227 
and in a, 262 
of the lightning, a, 269 

Flashed the red artillery, far, 13 
with Israfel, or, 244 

Flashing, seen war's lightning, 431 

Flashes of merriment, your, 468 

Flat and unprofitable, how weary, 
stale, 463 
with a spade, laid them, 77 

Flatter, averse alike to, 46 

most, the wooer who can, 458 
wrinkles . . . won't, 465 

Flatteries, 134 

damn his treacherous, 259 

Flattering unction, lay not that, 419 

Flattery, 134 

a stranger to, 197 

soothe, or, 421 

whom 'twere gross, 66 

Flavour of mild decay, a general, 82 
that gives it all its, 423 

Flaw in right, or, 356 

to expel the winter's, 421 

Flaws congealed, sudden as, 161 

Flax, is severed as the, 38 

seeketh the wool and the, 451 
to scorch them up like, 347 

Flea, 134 



Index 



565 



Fleas, 134 

a flea has smaller, 134 
Fled, all are scattered now and, 351 

as if that soul were, 170 

hope withering, 142 

I waked, she, 98 

whose lights are, 1 7 
Fledge the shaft, to, 106 
Fleet in my arms, and, 47 

invincible, when that great, 111 

one, 133 

our years are, 79 
Fleeting yet, fame ... be just as, 62 

time is, 163 
Fleets, ten thousand, 288 

time, 221 
Flesh, 134 

and blood, to ears of, 381 

and blood so cheap, 78 

are weak, and if my heart and, 
436 

a weight of carrion, 103 

from her fair and unpolluted, 426 

in man 's obdurate heart, no, 38 

like cumbrous, 381 

neither fish nor, 132 

now take away the, 380 

rotted off his, 15 

sinks downward, whilst my gross, 
270 

statue of, 115 

thou tookest, 377 

touches the, 77 

wallets of, 88 
Fleshed thy maiden sword, 395 
Flew a trope, but out there, 335 

from between their lips, the wedges, 
437 

thence up he, 63 
Flibbertigibbet, 135 
Fliers, your comrades chase e'en now 

the, 391 
Flies, and in a moment, 233 

every fault, 231 

from pole to pole, it, 262 

from woe, 370 

of estate and sunneshine, 3 

shoot folly as it, 136 

will crowd, the buzzing, 184 

with swallow 's wings, 186 
Flieth to it, grief, 77 
Flight, an eagle in his, 282 

brighten as they take their, 27 

not attained by sudden, 177 

of ages past, once in the, 228 

of years began, since first the, 75 

O time, in your, 340 

thy certain, 387 
Fling away ambition, 7 

her old shoe after, shall, 244 
Flings it a bone, if he, 461 
Flint, 135 

bears fire, as the, 209 

being incensed he 's, 161 

weariness can snore upon the, 437 
Flirt and flutter, with many a, 325 



Float, a breath can, 144 

a ship, there is water to, 3 7 

for ever, 1 7 

over a slave, never, 133 
Floated on, they, 56 
Floating by, ice mast-high came, 190 
Flock, I am a tainted wether of the, 

439 
Flocking ghosts, hast thou met the, 

151 
Flocks that range the valley free, 305 
Flog, 13s 
Flogging, 135 
Flood, 135 

by the rude bridge that arched the, 
362 

gates are open, the, 247 

swallowed in the, 231 

the calm fields, 268 

went upward with the, 357 

which taken at the, 405 
Flooded the crimson twilight, it, 374 
Floods foamed forth in, 6 

to bathe in fiery, 90 
Floor, and curled up on the, 350 

kiver the, 16 

new foot on the, 119 

the nicely sanded, 295 
Flop 'round the earth, 112 
Flopped down on my marrow-bones, 

I jest, 313 
Flourish all the year, that, 357 

at its root, could not, 445 

but thou shalt, 191 

he, and still, 286 

in an old cravat, virtue may, 171 

princes and lords may, 300 

the shelter and grace of our line, 49 
Flourished over us, 121 
Flow, and dark as winter was the, 225 

backward, one moment, 82 

of soul, feast of reason and the, 327 

of their tears, by the, 398 

you might have let them, 148 
Flowed around our incompleteness, 



vi IS4 
Flower, 13s 

about to blow, there's a, 225 

and thorn, 224 

a simple maiden in her, 246 

faith is but the, 327 

he lurks in every, 77 

if thou hast crushed a, 149 

is born to blush unseen, many a, 

149 

is just a flower, a, 316 

may prove a beauteous, 239 

O'Dumblane, the sweet, 364 

of a blameless life, 26 

on every bough, there grows a, 203 

safety, we pluck this, 280 

that smiles to-day, the same, 343 

the meanest, that blows, 404 

to flower, the butterfly from, 342 

was in flushing, our, 326 

Floweret of the vale, the meanest, 293 



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Index 



Flowers, 135 

and fruits of love, the, 223 

and play with, 359 

no fruits, no, 285 

strews with fresh, 452 

that only treads on, 406 

the young, are blowing toward the 
west, 469 

was it full of, 176 
Flowery food, crops the, 27 
Flowing asunder, swerving and, 339 
Flown, an English flag has, 113 

black bat night has, 148 

the day 's last beam is, 429 
Flung magic o'er my way, 148 

to the heedless winds, 441 

up dead, some, 35 
Flush of a new-born sun, 13 

the east hath confessed a, 225 
Flushing in her galled eyes, left the, 

399 
Flutter, bird of time has but a little 

way to, 406 
Fluttered by the wings of Cherubim, 

Flunked, 135 
Fly, 136 

as high as metaphysic wit can, 261 

at his heels, 't will, 461 

away, as an eagle, 336 

betimes, then, 234 

by change of place, 178 

I, I mount, 163 

immortal scandals, 351 

like thought, 171 

nor hurt a, 271 

or to drown a, 377 

soon as granted, 237 

that sips treacle, the, 395 

those that, may fight again, 130 

to others that we know not of, 79 

to the desert, fly with me, 85 

turn and, 28 

up, my words, 313 

which way shall I, 177 
Flying, borne down by the, 83 

fast, and we are, 344 

feet, with, 71 

fishes play, where the, 252 

her white wings, 436 

old time is still a-, 343 

set the wild echoes, 382 

while nights and larks are, 151 
Flying-chariot, bear the, 386 
Fly-wheel in our modern civilization, 

Foam, 136 

chafe and break into, 138 

of his gasping, the, 386 

too full for sound and, 18 

wave may not, 113 

white is the, 387 
Foam-fountains in the sea, his, 354 
Foamed forth in floods, 6 
Foams high and brave, 265 
Focus, into one, 204 



Foe, 136 

an Arab chieftain treats a, 12 

a pitying, 142 

as soon for a trampled, 173 

breathed in the face of the, 77 

but debt, dread no, 184 

could quell thy soul, no foreign, 112 

each I judge thy, 71 

furnace for your, 136 

in one red burial blent, 40 

mauls some feline, 44 

my dearest, 73 

of peace and law, 143 

one common, 409 

overcome but half his, 139 

the avowed, the erect, the manly, 
145 

to let in the, 84 

where breathes the, 17 

who never made a, 145 

with some infernal, 377 
Foeman should scowl, if the brow of 
the, 226 

will find neither coward nor slave, 
1 10 
Foemen worthy of their steel, 433 
Foes, if there were no, 10 1 

make friends of, 24 

never from her, 436 

of all the, 2 1 

routed all his, 19 

who hate, with a pardon for the, 363 
Fog in my throat, to feel the, 78 
Fold, like a wolf on the, 14 

their tents, shall, 44 
Folded in the same encircling arms, 

_ 416 
Folio, for I am for whole volumes in, 

466 
Folks, and looks arter his, 336 

are in their beds, while, 44 

never understand the folks they 
hate, 171 

on shore now, them unhappy, 285 
Folks 's corns out, new ones hunt, 

161 
Follies and misfortunes of mankind, 
180 

of such a book of, 449 

that themselves commit, 243 
Follow, and then let virtue, 266 

as the night the day, it must, 415 

him, bids men, 390 

him, I will, 196 

make the body, 142 

mine own teaching, twenty to, 397 

out his plan, 321 

so fast they, 448 

some must, 55 

thee and make a heaven, 169 

thee to the last gasp, 243 

the funeral car, 433 

this and come to dust, 103 

where my feet have trod, 207 

you, unworthy as I am, to, 378 

you the star, 338 



Index 



567 



Followed her, the king himself has, 202 

him, through all the world she, 463 

in her path, ever, 143 

wicked ways, she never, 441 

yet are, 70 
Following her, crush me for, 416 
Follows after prayer, that, 374 

fast, and a wind that, 359 

his own instructions, 94 

ye ez long 's ye live, 40 
Folly, 136 

and ignorance, 252 

and with pride, with, 449 

confess thy, 341 

deem it not all a too presumptuous, 
304 

the memory of past, 445 

to be wise, 'tis, 190 

to be wise too soon, 446 

your neebours' faults and, 305 
Folly's all they've taught me, 118 
Fond, fair and yet not, 455 

kiss, ae, 203 

of fame, are, 123 

of fame, nor too, 46 

of grief, to be, 165 

of him, aren't you, 237 

of him, are you so, 237 
Fonder, absence makes the heart 

grow, 1 
Fondly to-day, which I gaze on so, 

47 
Fondness o'er thee, that weep in, 443 

of a dove, with the, 173 
Fontarabian echoes, on, 39 
Food at last is the ivy's, 195 

chief o' Scotia's, 310 

crops the flowery, 2 7 

fed with the same, 197 

for fools, flattery's the, 134 

for powder, 312 

for seven long year, have been 
Tom's, 261 

for vermin, like Priam, 89 

heavenly, is very light, 123 

it likes, and other, 64 

not ever craving for their, 31 

of love, if music be the, 273 

of sweet and bitter fancy, 124 

of us that trade in love, moody, 273 

pined and wanted, 182 

slakes hunger, the, 369 

they picked the luscious, 300 

was the Englishman's, 22 
Fool, 136, 137 

a noble, was never in a fault, 397 

as wit turned, 447 

beside that he's a, 323 

but the heart of the, 200 

his whole life long, he is a, 444 

honesty's a, 183 

is knavish, 452 

is love, so true a, 239 

let me play the, 264 

man suspects himself a, 251 

marry a, 255 



Fool 

more knave than, 20S 

of yourself, what a, 440 

their love away, while unthrifts, 232 

the pious, that raised it, 123 

the prize be sometimes with the, 318 

to fame, nor yet a, 466 

to make me merry, rather have, 261 

to the wiseman, the, 369 

who thinks by force or skill, a, 450 

yon brawny, 248 

you would think truth were a, 218 
Fooled, as father Adam first was, 449 
Foolery, 137 

in the wise, 136 
Fooling thee, she is, 24 
Foolish for a tear, too, 371 

tears upon my grave, drop thy, 76 

thing, never says a, 202 

wit, than a, 137 
Fool 's paradise, a, 295 

paradise, in his, 295 
Fools, 137, 138 

all our yesterdays have lighted, 411 

are as like husbands, 190 

are my theme, 350 

contest, let, 161 

folly in, 136 

have, for so, 217 

like you, we thrive at Westminster 
on, 292 

in spite of all the, 11 1 

insulted by, 320 

of nature, we, 268 

or knaves, what, 306 

that marry, they are, 255 

the food for, 134 

the paradise of, 295 

they are the money of, 459 

who came to scoff, 352 

who roam, they are, 182 

will learn in no other, 117 

would wish to die, even, 81 
Foot, 138 

and hand go cold, both, 6 

before, and firmly placed his, 136 

can fall, as softly as, 407 

gorgonized me from head to, 384 

in the grave, with one, 164 

of a conqueror, proud, 112 

of night, hushed as the, 282 

of thy crags, O sea, 161 

of time, noiseless falls the, 406 

of time, the inaudible and noiseless, 
406 

of time, the lazy, 56 

o' man, he was six, 249 

one, in sea, 83 

on the floor, a new, 119 

showed worth on, 417 

to the sole of his, 196 

upon a worm, man who needlessly 
sets, 463 
Football game, in life, as in a, 222 
Footpath way, jog on, the, 174 
Footprints, 138 



568 



Index 



Footsteps he hath turned, 6s 
in the sea, his, 154 
roam, howe'er thy, 182 

Fop their passion, a, 462 

Forage for herself alone, to, 106 

Forbade to wade through slaughter, 
368 

Forbear, 138 

for Jesus sake, 29 

Forbearance, 138 

Forbid, but that I am, 380 
it, almighty God, 217 
my tears, therefore I, 399 
why was Caty not, 200 

Forbidden tree, fruit of that, 93 

Forbore, and, 78 

Force, 139 

but this twofold, 260 

from all her men, drawing, 277 

however great, there is no, 389 

in the decrees of Venice, no, 213 

it out, to, 398 

my ramparts, to, 284 

of nature, the, 309 

of temporal power, the, 260 

of the crown, to all the, 44 

or skill, who thinks by, 450 

shall have spent its novel, 297 

upheld the truth, by tradition 's, 416 

Forced by Fate, 13 
gait, 't is like the, 309 
me out 61 thy honest truth, 399 
those waters from me, 399 
till it be, 422 

Forces, all his, dare not cross the 
threshold, 44 
opposing and enduring, 60 

Fordoes me quite, makes me or, 247 

Forefathers had no other books, our, 
3i7 
of the hamlet, 108 

Fore- foot, there he put his dear, 372 

Forego it, this single life, 366 

Foregone conclusion, a, 60 

Forehead, did not with unbashful, 356 
is wrinkled, because his, 309 
kiss from my, 340 
of our faults, the teeth and, 289 
of the morning, than with the, 282 
there was glory on his, 351 

Foreheads, carried so long beneath our 
wrinkled, 403 

Foreign, 139 

foe could quell thy soul, no, 112 
land, to what it is in a, 133 
levy, nothing, 223 
nations, intercourse with, 65 
rivals, through fear of, no 
strand, from wandering on a, 65 
troops, in my country, 8 

Foreman smiles, the, 92 

Foremost cantain of his time, 43 
fighting, fell, 131 
man of all this world, 36 
to defend, 176 

Foreseeing man, brave, 8 



Forespent, clean, 457 
Forest, 139 

a fool i' the, 137 

like the leaves of the, 216 

no true lover in the, 56 

their trys ting-place in the, 339 

the old tree is leafless in the, 290 

there 's "no clock i' the, 56 
Forestalled to be, 260 
Forests of the night, in the, 405 
Foretell, I can, 315 

Foretells the nature of a tragic vol- 
ume, 38 

world of happiness their harmony, 
437 
Foretold, truly that hour, 296 

what else can be, 228 
Forever, 139 

one grand sweet song, that vast, 
374 
Forfeit of my bond, 83 
Forfeits his own blood, he, 27 
Forgave the offence, 289 
Forge another to take up the old ac- 
ceptance, 82 

the arms ye, 355 

the steel, I, 386 

think God can't, 156 
Forget, 139 

it soon, I won't, 286 

men 's names, new-made honour 
doth, 275 

never can I, 72 

not that I am an ass, 13 

or courage to, 330 

so lost in lexicography as to, 459 

that learning, laboured much how 
toi 466 

the human race, 85 

the luve o' life 's young day, never 
can, 222 

them all, you'll, 128 

the man wholly, you, 314 

themselves so far, muse that men, 
455 

this lost Lenore, and, 280 

who never can, 384 
Forgetful we are of death, how, 79 
Forgetfulness, 139 

not in entire, 25 

steep my senses in, 370 
Forgets, the heart that has truly loved 

never, 393 
Forget'st, what thou hast, 170 
Forgetting, 140 

a sleep and a, 25 

that even the sparrow falls, 177 
Forgive, 140 

forget and, 139 

her deceit with a tear, and, 333 

him, cursed be my tribe, if I, 193 

me for lying, the Lord, 244 

my foul offence, 429 

this foolish tear, 398 

to love and to, 260 

to pity and perhaps, 138 



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569 



Forgiven, 140 

by Christ in Heaven, the sin, 366 
hones to be, 176 
little to be, 312 

Forgiveness, 140 

Forgives, for who, 335 

Forgiving, 140 

Forgot as soon as done, 407 
by the world, 140 
his own griefs, and, 125 
loved accents are soon, 209 
should auld acquaintance be, 14 
was Britain's glory, 241 

Forgotten, 140 

nor must Uncle Sam 's web-feet be, 

437 
not one of them is, 320 
what the inside of a church, 53 

Fork, adder's, 179 

Forked mountain, a, 56 

Forlorn, that would make me less, 293 

Form, 140 

a combination and a, 250 

and bearing fruit, taking, 461 

and feature, in, 418 

a state, scarce serve to, 385 

doth take, the bodie, 377 

from off my door, take thy, 19 

for soule is, 377 

his vacant garments with his, 165 

let thy future give colour and, 127 

in a visible, 78 

in perfect rest, a perfect, 302 

of prayer can serve my turn, 313 

of success, that highest, 389 

or face, 2 74 

shall hail him at the gates of death, 

61 
so fair, a, 176 

that sleep reveals, a late-lost, 442 
the mould of, 263 

Forma pauperis to God, in, 388 
to God, sue in, 312 

Formation of a demeanour, in the, 85 

Formed the whole, who, 233 

Forming, and swiftly, 271 

Forms, all, all pressures past, 331 
decay, though the, 256 
moods, shapes of grief, 448 
no, or crosses, 220 
of government, for, 161 
of hairs, to observe the, 458 
of party strife, ancient, 339 
of things unknown, the, 308 
the common mind, education, 107 
to his conceit, with, 307 
unseen their dirge is sung, by, 34 

Forsake him, his favourite sins all, 366 
its languid melancholy frame, 428 

Forsaken his sins, thinks he has, 366 
when he's, 4 

Forsakes, the wretched he, 370 

Forswore, a woman I, 157 

Fortress, 140 

as a warrior storms a, 392 
built by Nature, 112 



Fortress 

I can march up to a, 283 

of storming some airy, 409 
Fortunate, as he was, 7 
Fortune, 141 

fair or fatal, for, 461 

hath given hostages to, 442 

joy for his, 7 

leads on to, 405 

led, by wit or, 214 

of outrageous, 19 

sent me, 137 

smiles, where, 370 

the last effort of decayed, 171 

to, and to fame, 257 

to be a well-favoured man is the 
gift of, 466 

to dispose, for, 89 

to prey at, 168 

what is your, 246 

while he whose, 266 
Fortune 's power, I am not now in, 97. 
Fortunes, 141 

lest it may mar your, 380 

our, and our sacred honour, 307 

strong, women are not in their best, 
456 
Forty, a fool at, 137 

centuries look down upon you, 322 

flags with their silver stars, 134 

knows it at, 251 

minutes, in, 152 

pounds a year, passing rich with, 
336, 

thousand men, with, 202 
Forty-odd befell, at, 22 
Forty-parson power to % chaunt thy 

praise, 190 
Forty-second Foot, and the, 138 
Fossils, 141 
Fought all his battles, 19 

and bled in freedom's cause, 58 

and prayed, the men that, 181 

each of us, 113 

each other for, what they, 425 

for queen and faith, 103 

for, that heroes, 416 

for her, 416 

he, he conquered, and he fell, 130 

not with fifty of them, if I, 324 

so well, they that had, 80 

throughout a weary life, has, 321 

with outright, met and, 219 
Foul, 141 

and don't shirk, don't, 222 

be fair or, 221 

deeds will rise, 83 

fall him that blenches first, 114 

his days are, 10 1 

murder most, 272 
Foul-tongued fanatic, you, 108 
Found his work, he who has, 459 

it, most of us have, 40s 

myself famous, 124 

out the limit of my capacity for 
work, never, 460 



570 



Index 



Found that life was duty, 104 
that means not to be, 355 
thee a way, 140 
them air, and I, 302 
'twill be, 87 

when, make a note of, 285 

you, when I, 137 
Foundation, no sure, set on blood, 27 

the frame and huge, 277 
Foundations lie, the strong, 267 
Founder, meant to, 115 
Fount about to stream, there's a, 225 
Fountain of all human frailty, the, 452 

spouting through his heir, 248 
Fountains, large streams from little, 2 
Four acts already past, the first, 109 

days, those, 37 

summers after, we met again, 296 

things greater than all things are, 
164 

times the spoon, 349 

hundred nobodies were ruined, 379 
Four-square to all the winds that 

blew, 413 
Fourteen hundred years ago were 

nailed, 67 
Fowl by hatching the egg, sooner have 

the, 108 
Fowler, is trie net of the, 280 
Fowls, 142 
Fox, 142 

Fractious indeed, and was very, 198 
Fragment of his blade, 47 
Fragments lie, and painted, 362 

on the broken and dishonoured, 420 
Fragrant, with Sappho, 410 
Frail, it may be, 44 

so, so strong, 374 

that err, weep for the, 312 

too, women are, 453 
Frailty, 142 

from the organ-pipe of, 273 

the fountain of all human, 452 
Frame agree, while souls and bodies in 
one, 378 

a ladder, we can, 170 

a shock of pleasure to the, 43s 

and huge foundation, the, 277 

a shining, 132 

forsake its languid melancholy, 428 

like the grosser, 381 

my face to all occasions, 118 

the law unto my will, 213 

thy fearful symmetry, could, 405 

unequal laws, 115 

when my whole, 331 

with rapture-smitten, 274 

with this goodly, 419 
Framed, equal laws which it had, 59 

their iron creeds, and, 155 

to make women false, 122 
France, 142 

England, Germany, 135 

fair gentlemen of, 179 

the deadly Waterloo, the grave of, 
435 



France 

the foaming grape of Eastern, 344 

the king of, 202 

Francis C lies, here, 87 

Frantic clutch, denying to his, 115 
Fraud, his heart as far from, 29 
Fraught with menace, more, 165 
Fray, in arms and eager for the, 12 

of such a bloody, 308 
Free, 142 

and open nature, 183 

and strong, 247 

as air, love, 233 

as aught but the, 133 

as nature, I am as, 350 

both open and both, 84 

deeds, turnpikes leading to, 31 

even to the uttermost, 412 

for who are so, 286 

from faults, not, 46 

himself from God he could not, 39 

his people are, 405 

in the country of the, 469 

I shall be, 78 

let us die to make men, 225 

o'er the land of the, 17, 

only, he soars, 233 

principles, refuge of, in 

proud fathers slumber at thy side, 
thy, 128 

quill, Britons have a tongue and, 
110 

ring in the valiant man and, 422 

so cleanly I myself can, 296 

souls, we that have, 195 

speech, turnpikes leading to, 31 

that moment they are, 368 

the blue, the fresh, the ever, 354 

thought, turnpikes leading to, 31 

till thou at length art, 376 

to make thy music, 10 

to prove all things, 320 

to think and act, men are, 220 

we must be, or die, 412 

whom the truth makes, 144 

who would be, 29 
Freed, Ned Purdon from misery, 168 
Freedom, 142-144 

and then glory, 18 

and whiskey gang thegither, 440 

deed is done for, 143 

in all the pride of, 217 

of the press and quill, no 

reigns, faith with, 219 

ring, let, 65 

shall awhile repair, and, 34 

shall have a new birth of, 276 

stand in the Old South Church, 32 

the kingliest act of, 144 

the nation 's later birth of, 276 

to worship God, 464 
Freedom 's banner streaming o'er us, 
17 

cause, in, 58 

ensign, 'neath the shade of, 64 

soil beneath our feet, 17 



Index 



57i 



Freedom 's tomb, vampire which from, 

Freeman, 144 

Freemen, we call you as, 286 
Free-will, and that sort of thing, 330 
Freeze, there's nothing can, 372 

thou bitter sky, 24 

thy young blood, 380 
Freezing the marrow with too late, 

211 
Freight, built for, 66 
Freight-train of conversation, upset a, 

3 21 
Fremont and victory, 142 
French crown, a fairer name than, 332 
French-man, 144 
Frenzy rolling, in a fine, 308 
Fresh and simple, hearts are, 156 

wild thrill, 33 

woods and pastures new, 458 
Fresh-blown roses washed in dew, 343 
Freshness, a dewy, 268 
Fret, 144 

me, though you can, 305 
Frets his hour, that struts and, 411 

thy sight, that, 377 
Fretted vault, long-drawn aisle and, 

10 
Fretting, her stately bosom was, 316 
Friar, 145 

Fridays when they fasted, on, 267 
Friend, 145 

a brute, 38 

and I 've a, 167 

and who lost no, 385 

becomes her lover, when Psyche 's, 
242 

both itself and, 31 

both leal and tried, and a, 57 

death, good friend, 78 

foe, in one red burial blent, 40 

for a soul-bound, 173 

found not a generous, 142 

her lover has become her, 242 

his own best, 249 

indeed, be very much his, 405 

in life the firmest, 176 

in need, may we never want a, 285 

is such a, 405 

i' the court, a, 65 

I trusted, but when the, 125 

my guide, philosopher and, 167 

no man is without a, 464 

old without a, 462 

one, not quite a hypocrite, 462 

one common, 409 

plain blunt man that love my, 291 

remembered not, 24 

save honour, seek no, 184 

say Welcome, 221 

severe, a, 91 

shall be a, 38 

take note of thy departure, and no, 
86 

that loved her, if I had a, 363 

the Devil thought of his old, 11 



Friend 

their best and dearest, 322 

then think of the. 125 

the world is not thy, 463 

the wretched has no, 465 

to close his eyes, 86 

to truth, statesman yet, 385 

with her took my, 57 

yet think of my, 378 
Friendly be, both false and, 24 

eye could never see, 128 

grasp, never shall in, 97 

love perfecteth, 232 
Friends, 145, 146 

and visitors, denied to, 345 

are dear, when, 220 

are many, be glad and your, 152 

are wanted most, when, 145 

boun' to be good, in 

but served our, 89 

dearer, caress thee, 331 

eat and drink as, 214 

gut to be fas', in 

in sable weeds appear, 448 

in youth they had been, 412 

I would not enter on my list of, 463 

like summer, 3 

nature teaches beasts to know their, 
278 

of foes, make, 24 

Romans, countrymen, 341 

sisters and, 129 

still as kind and constant, 345 

troops of, 223 

we may live without. 63 

were poor but honest, my, 310 
Friendship, 146 

all a- two, a tonge cutteth, 412 

false, in, 383 

love and peace combine, when, 442 

of all who offer you, 146 

O summer, 3 
Friendship 's solid mason-work below, 

needs, 242 
Friendships, 146 

honest with all nations, 6 
Fright the souls, to, 432 
Frighted thee, how have I, 370 
Frightened when a madman stares, 50 
Frightful when one 's dead, 75 
Fringed with fire, bastion, 19 
Frisky, should be so gay and. 440 
Frith, intersected by a narrow, no 
Frizzled like celery tips, their blunt 

ends, 437 
Frog, and toe of, 179 
Frogs went hop, the, 372 
Frolic and fun, 197 
Frolics, a youth of, 462 
Fronded palms in air, lift their, 43 
Front, 146 

engraven, deep on his, 85 

hath smoothed his wrinkled, 432 

now his honest, 288 

of heaven, the, 277 

of Jove himself, the, 250 



572 



Index 



Front 

of them, cannon in, 42 
Front-door and a side-door, have a, 

129 
Frost, comes a, 164 

is my crown, the, 284 

so full of, 119 

the old year is ending in the, 290 
Frosty, but kindly, 357 

Caucasus, thinking on the, 191 
Froth, sea was all a boiling seething, 

147 
Froward, peevish, when she is, 454 
Frown, 146 

and we smile, 141 

and yesterday's, 442 

the murderer 's, 384 

upon Saint Giles's sins, 367 
Frowned not, fair science, 257 
Frowning sky, from forth the, 28 
Froze the genial current of the soul, 

3°i 
Frozen home, milk comes, 190 
F. R. S. and LL. D., 1 
Fruit, 146, 147 

appears, their, 355 

blooming ambrosial, 414 

in garnered, 337 

of that forbidden tree, 93 

taking form and bearing, 461 

till like ripe, 228 

their century, 31 

were scarce worth peeling, the, 386 
Fruitless fire, shrivelled in a, 160 
Fruits, no, no flowers, 285 

of love, the flowers and, 223 
Fruit-tree tops, all the, 268 
Fry, driving the poor, 133 
Fudge, in vain we call old notions, 386 
Fuel, 147 

fresh beauty for its, 233 
Full dress, when daring in, 408 

for sound and foam, too, 18 

for weeks thegither, 37 

I was na, 307 

man, reading maketh a, 326 

of briers, 37 

of deceits, are, 82 

of emotion, when the heart is so, 
173 

of jealousy, love ... is, 240 

of joy, my songs were, 148 

of mirth, little inmate, 17s 

of supper, being, 393 

or no, the moon shine at, 193 

the moon is, 57 

the moon is at her, 268 

without o'erflowing, 84 
Full-blossomed on the thorny stem, 

143 
Full-hot horse, like a, 9 
Fullness of perfection lies in him, 168 
Full-weight-dollar debts with, to pay, 

96 
Fumble with the sheets, after I saw 
him, 359 



Fun, 147 

frolic and, 197 

the mirth and, 264 
Function suiting, and his whole, 307 
Funeral, 147 

car, follow the, 433 

marches to the grave, 163 

note, not a, 102 
Fungi gather, the mosses and, 425 
Funnel and a mast, just a, 54 
Furious close, intestine shock and, 54 
Furled, and the battle-flags were, 433 
Furnace crammed rosin and pine, 346 

from the hottest, 41 

heat not a, 136 

I manage the, 386 

red, like a fiery, 87 

sighing like a, 242 

the human body is a, 28 

unshrinking, through the, 9 
Furnaced, has been fierily, 314 
Furnish forth the marriage tables, 147 
Furrow ez straight ez he can, he draws 
his, 356 

stands, and to the last of earth his, 
79 

straighter, nor draw a, 249 
Furrowed face, his, 225 
Furrows of care, the, 340 
Further gone than he, his neighbour, 
284 

go, could no, 309 

I don't want to go no, 431 
Fury, comes the blind, 123 

full of sound and, 411 

in that beastly, 101 

like a woman scorned, nor hell a, 3 24 

of a patient man, beware the, 298 

oppose my patience to his, 298 

thing that feeds their, 132 
Furze, brown, long heath, 354 
Future, 14.7 

give colour and form, let thy, 127 

has deeds of glory, your, 409 

hope links her to the, 258 

shame, relief from, 89 

should woo the angel virtue in the, 
332 

state, the secrets of the, 376 

the, the past, 222 

yet that scaffold sways the, 417 

your dreams of the, 409 
Future's heart, leaps beneath the, 115 

portal, nor attempt the, 281 
Futurity, fixed on, 86 
Fuzzy-Wuzzy, 147 



G lies under ground, 16! 

Gaberdine, 147 

Gain, and the people's, 276 
but for, 345 

it gets, know for the, 206 
love were clear, 232 
of a few, for the, 297 



Index 



573 



Gain or but subserves another's, 160 

some private ends, to, 95 
Gained a hundred fights, he that, 167 

a point, feel I had, 197 

most, learning hath, 3 1 

no title, who, 385 
Gaining some hard- fought field, of, 409 

the crown, nearer, 278 
Gains for all our losses, there are, 470 

may be great, 379 

or loses, what, 306 
Gait, an easy, 186 

like the forced, 309 
Galatians, a great text in, 71 
Gale, 147 

and catch the driving, 278 

comes on, sonorous as the, 52 

it's a stiff, 320 

note that swells the, 293 

that scents the evening, 402 

the lightning and the, 133 
Gall, 148 

alone you must drink life's, 152 

in the slanderous tongue, 42 

though ink be made of, 466 
Gallagher, his father was a, 348 
Gallant craft, a beautiful and, 66 

is this that haughty, 231 
Gallantly streaming, were so, 17 
Gallantry, no more to do with, 61 
Galled, but what encumbered, 76 
Gallery of family portraits, man with 

the, 124 
Gallop, that still eternal, 324 

withal, who doth he, 407 
Gallows, with a thief to the, 407 
Gambols, your, your songs, 468 
Game, 148 

a few more brace of, 208 

for love, a quiet, 234 

in life as in a football, 222 

never seeing noble, 70 

or fish, wild-fowl or venison, 36 

speculation is a round, 379 

the rigour of the, 175 

war 's a, 430 

wasn't worth a dump, 77 
Gammon, texts with trading, 247 
Gander, she finds some honest, 255 
Gangrened, 148 

Gaol a ship is worse than a, 359 
Gaoler, is as a, 41 

to his pity, his injury the, 192 
Gap of time, this great, 370 
Gapes for drink again, 101 
Gaping age, to a, 278 

who never leave, 133 

wide, that the graves all, 282 
Gaps, fill their, 252 
Garbage floats, down Tiber, 184 
Garden, 148 

for parsley, as she went to the, 254 

had been, to mark where a, 342 

in her face, there is a, 343 

made, God the first, 64 

was a wild, the, 450 



Gardener, 148 

Adam was a, 2 
Gardeners, no ancient gentlemen but, 

I5 °. , 

our wills are, 28 
Gardens, our bodies are [our], 28 

shut the, 345 
Garland, the remains of the, 100 

the sweetest, 395 
Garlands dead, whose, 17 
Garlic, live with cheese and, 399 

roach and dace, 32 
Garment no more fitting, is a, 375 
Garments, his vacant, 165 

which it wore last year, 381 
Garnish, eye of heaven to, 152 
Garret, 148 

Garrick 's a salad, our, 349 
Garrison hung but on him, 113 
Garter, familiar as his, 161 

for the sake of a ribbon, star, or, 42 
Garters, gold, scarfs, A9 
Gasp, follow thee to the last, 243 
Gasping on the brink, and I, 439 

the foam of his, 386 
Gate, 148 

alone, at the, 148 

and see through heaven's, 292 

as he would beat down the, 206 

boots it at one, 84 

lock the latticed, 345 

matters not how strait the, 126 

my dog howls at the, 95 

no iron, 31 

now at heaven's, 210 

sings, at heaven's, 210 

sings hymns at heaven 's, 210 

the house with the narrow, 187 

the old poor at the, 149 

thick wall or moated, 385 

through glory's morning, 105 
Gates are mine to close, the, 276 

are mine to open, the, 276 

iron, obstruct the prisoner's gaze, 
262 

kneel at thy, 126 

of death, hail him at the, 61 

of hell, as the, 218 

of mercy on mankind, shut the, 368 

of mercy shall be all shut up, 260 

with iron, I barred my, 284 
Gather by unseen degrees, 167 

them in, I, 357 

ye rosebuds while ye may, 343 
Gathered be at last, shall, 441 

together, can never be, 173 

together, the eagles be, 184 

up their treasure, have, 367 
Gathering her brows, 465 

in, dey all comes, 359 
Gaudy, rich, not, n 
Gave, blessed be he who took and, 1 64 

ere charity began, his pity, 305 

me- fame, use, 421 

me up to tears, and, 399 

she only, 26s 



574 



Index 



Gave thee, who, 419 

up their lives at the Queen's com- 
mand, 373 
Gay, 148 

as soft, 20 

can rise in the morning, 442 

cities, far from, 68 

from grave to, 162 

Lothario, that haughty gallant, 231 
Gayest soul on earth, was the, 148 
Gaze, obstruct the prisoner's, 262- 

on thee, I, 285 

with averted, 121 
Gazed, and still they, 456 

on the face of the dead, we stead- 
fastly, 313 
Gazelle, 148 

Gazes on the ground, and, 130 
Gazing fed with, 124 
Gem, 149 

of countless price, 73 
Gems, 149 

in sparkling showers, 107 
General joy of the whole table, 172 

so likes your music, the, 273 

'twas caviare to the, 45 

use, concur to, 117 
Generalities, 149 
Generation, that each, 54 

the cold lair of my dark, 284 
Generations dead, said of all the, 228 
Generous glass, inspired to wake, 152 

open, sincere, whose temper was, 
197 
Genius and his jack-knife driven, by 
his, 467 

companies of men of, 387 

gave the final blow, thine own, 106 

my, . . . has as yet lost nothing, 
397 

should marry a person of character, 
254 
Gent, for any scientific, 171 
Gentility, shabby, 171 
Genteelly, 
Gentle dedes, to do the, 150 

dedis, that doth, 150 

deeds is known, by, 150 

he is, 150 

minde, the, 150 

of manners, 252 

ones, one of those, 88 

thing, sleep, it is a, 369 

yet not dull, 84 
Gentleman, 149, 150 

a fine puss, 54 

and scholar, the, 58 

a very simple, 415 

a worthy, 326 

bears not alive so stout a, 381 

I do not think a braver, 422 

in a black coat, with a, 416 

is God Almighty's, 51 

porter and, 2 1 

St. Patrick was a, 348 

that loves to hear himself talk, 396 



Gentleman 

that makes the king a, 248 

the honourable, has said much, 291 

will out-talk us all, 396 
Gentlemanly vice, a good old, 15 
Gentleman's study, in an old, 279 
Gentlemen, 150 

but gardeners, no ancient, 150 

but gents, a word not made for, 294 

God Almighty's, 51 

God rest ye, merry, 51 

my Lords and, 75 

of England, ye, 355 

of France, fair, 179 

other, come down Tom-all-Alone 's, 
314 
Gentleness my strong enforcement be, 

23 
Gentler, still, sister woman, 188 
Gentlest fall, with, 18 
Gently and humanly, 454 

but use all, 379 

scan your brother man, 188 

she is sleeping, 105 

steer, who in his verse can, 162 

to hear, 198 
Gents, a word not made for gentle- 
men but, 294 
Geographers in Afric maps, 252 
Geometric scale, he by, 6 
George, and if his name be, 275 

the Fourth could reign, as long as, 3 

the Third may profit by their ex- 
ample, 414 
Georgius Primus' reign, in, 31 
German, 151 
Germany or Spain, 135 
Gesture in every dignity and love, 161 
Get a fish-hook in, 133 

at one end, what the boys, 13s 

away, you won't, 112 

before, to, 344 

forrid, civlyzation doos, 431 

heavy to, 157 

in, wish to, 253 

money, still get money, boy, 266 

no more of me, you, 296 

on, but really can't, 247 

out of a room, hard for some people 
to, 212 

out, wish to, 253 

still thou striv'st to, 170 

thar, how did he, 404 

thee gone, go poor devil, 189 

thee to a nunnery, 286 

them, we, bear them, 311 

there, but how shall I, 383 

up, start again, 220 

up airly, you've gut to, 431 

you gone, old opinions . . . , no, 143 
Gets mad, the one thet fust, 245 

the narrower by going farther, 276 

well, say that truth, 415 
Getting and spending we lay waste 

our powers, 463 
Getting-up, 151 



Index 



575 



Ghastly dreams, of, 99 
Ghost, ay, thou poor, 331 

of him that lets me, I '11 make a, 420 

that is speechless, like a, 451 

there needs no, 426 
Ghosts, 151 

break up their graves, and, 352 
Giant, 151 

dies, as when a, 80 

wake not thou the, 301 

yield, bidding some, 409 
Gib cat, melancholy as a, 258 
Gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe, 

272 
Gibes now, where be your, 468 
Giddy, 151 
Gift, freedom ain't a, 143 

last, best, 177 

of a coward, but that he hath the, 
3 2 3 

of a grave, he would quickly have, 
323 

of fortune, is the, 466 

till happier hours restore the, 203 

true love's the, 237 

without the giver, the, 181 
Gift-horse, 151 

Giftie, gie us, wad some power the, 35s 
Gifts, if sorrow could be won by, 16 

pounds and possibilities is good, 311 

wax poor, rich, 421 
Gild, 152 
Gilded car of day, 73 

bath the world 's book been, 207 
Gilead, is there balm in, 17 
Gilt o'erdusted, more laud than, 103 
Gin, he smells of Hollands, 181 

now is the woodcock near the, 457 

so strives the woodcock with the, 
457 

with pitfall and with, 365 
Ginger shall be hot i' the mouth, 427 
Gingerbread, thou should'st have it 

to buy, 301 
Gird thee up anew, 126 
Girdle, 152 

Girdled with the sky, 268 
Girl a settin', there's a Burma, 251 

gave, sweeter sure never, 205 

here's to the, 246 
Girl-graduates, and sweet, 162 
Girl 's door, to knock at a pretty, 338 

hand, holds a pretty, 383 
Girls acts so or so, why, 283 

between two, 213 

golden lads and, 103 

sitting like shopkeepers, 266 

that are so smart, of all the, 6 
Give a cup of water, to, 43s 

and I devise, I, 91 

a thousand furlongs of sea, 354 

back the upward looking, 467 

enough, enabled them to, 266 

grandam kingdom, 162 

her booby for another, who'd, 270 

his due to the devil, and so, 87 



Give, I 'd, to feel once more, 33 
in, don 't, 131 
it, the law doth, 134 
it in, blush to, 287 
it willingly, I, 381 
me liberty, 217 
me sixpence, if you will, 310 
me sweet kisses, Chloe, 205 
my hopes, and, 409 
no man a reason upon compulsion, 

327 
no reason, so can I, 327 
not what we, 181 
o'er, who knows not to, 466 
place, all other things, 209 
succeed and, 129 
the devil his due, 87 
thee, what strength that God may, 

429 
thee sixpence, I, 367 
thoughts, the meanest flower that 

blows can, 404 
to God each moment, 227 
too much, fortune . . . doth, 141 
unless their subjects, 202 
up, do n't, afore the ship goes down. 

up the ship, don't, 359 

up the ship, never, 58 

us, what riches, 336 

way and room, must I, 50 

what they would take, and doctors. 
214 

when lawyers take what they 
would, 214 
Given away, thou hast, 137 

away, 'tis heaven alone, 177 

o'er, 't is not amiss ere ye 're, 86 

to God, and so was, 56 

to God, worship freely, 464 

to lying, how this world is, 244 

with it, alas, if none is, 129 

with welcome, 't is, 129 

you one face, God has, 118 
Giver, the gift without the, 181 
Givers prove unkind, when, 421 
Gives a kiss, and, 203 

but nothing, 26 

from a sense of duty, 7 

him that, 260 

himself, who, 181 

only the worthless gold, 7 

us back the image of our mind, that, 
447 

what he has he, 84 
Glad, 152 

did I live and gladly die, 163 

eat and be, 36s 

I manage to exist and to be, 61 

I should be, 310 

I was up so late, 211 

me with its soft black eye, to, 148 

the two or three, thoughts that 
shall, 466 

to death 's mystery, 244 

to-morrow, in that great, 94 



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Index 



Glad 

with all my heart, 296 
Gladden and control, 384 
Gladiator, 152 
Gladness, and all the, 331 

of the world 's release, the, 300 

the lark is so brimful of, 23s 

worketh with, 451 
Glance from heaven to earth, doth, 
308 

would scorch, whose, 377 
Glances bright, see the gleam of, 23 
Glare, maidens, like moths, are ever 
caught with, 270 

the rocket's red, 17 

with, which thou dost, 29 
Glares at one that nods and winks, 301 
Glass, 152 

and scythe, fierce spirit of the, 
406 

an excuse for the, 210 

but she made mouths in a, 453 

of fashion, the, 263 

of time, love took up the, 241 

pride is his own, 320 
Glasses, stand to your, 91 

there, fill all the, 101 

where they view themselves, as the, 
453 

with water you fill up your, 445 
Gleam, and one brief, 230 

her camp-fires, before us, 281 

in the morning, 132 

of glances bright, 23 

of sunshine, the parting, in 

of their snowy robes, the, 339 

unrecked of, 354 
Gleamed upon my sight, when first 

she, 302 
Gleaming, at the twilight's last, 17 

our days come roaring and, 138 
Glee, laughed out in her innocent, 440 

laughed with counterfeited, 93 

puzzling with a deal of, 1 
Glen, cam' down the lang, 458 
Glib and oily art, I want that, 321 
Glide, in the church-way paths to, 282 

how mirth can into folly, 136 
Glideth by the mill, more water, 435 
Gliding free, rivers, 228 
Glimmer, only waiting till the, 429 
Glimpses of the moon, 268 

so might I . . . have, 293 
Glisten, 152 

in the ray, earth shall, 159 
Glisteneth, all is not gold that, 158 
Glisters, all is not gold that, 158 

gold, nor all that, 158 

is not gold, all that, 158 
Glittering and sounding generalities, 
the, 149 

eye, with his, 117 

in gold, 106 
Glitters, all, as they say, that, 158 

out again, then, 376 

in the west, 109 



Globe, all that tread the, 74 

in this distracted, 331 

itself, the great, 428 

over the surface of the whole, 112 

round, search the, 194 

elate, o'er thrones and, 385 
Gloom, amid the encircling, 214 

long as there lingers, 219 

shrieking through the, 61 
Gloomy as usual, 124 

or bright, be it, 116 
Glories fall, where lights like, 264 

its earthly, 419 

of this world, some for the, 44 
Glorified, till they stand, 255 
Glorious charter, deny it who can, 47 

day for America, a, 8 

I '11 make thee, 124 

in a pipe, 408 

Tarn was, 191 

to write, it may be, 466 

works, Parent of Good, thy, 461 
Glory, 152, 153 

and shame, through, 236 

an' one shame, hev, 208 

circling round the soul, a, 233 

ez to my princerples I, 42 

forgot was Britain 's, 241 

freedom and then, 18 

from his grey hairs, the, 121 

full meridian of my, 122 

glows, where neither guilty, 434 

go to war for, no 

guards, and, 26 

he had sought, the very, 342 

in a sea of, 353 

in full-orbed, 268 

in his bosom, with a, 225 

is like a circle, 53 

jest and riddle of the world, the, 
462 

leads the fight, when, 143 

like a sea of, 216 

of his works, through all the, 154 

of philosophy, the, 269 

of the northern sky, the, 245 

on his forehead, there was, 351 

Rome in the height of her, 112 

stood for his country 's, 58 

that may raise, love and, 293 

the grape, 193 

the paths of, 163 

the rainbow 's, 209 

the uncertain, 240 

the way to, 104 

the wild cataract leaps in, 382 

to, arise, 58 

trailing clouds of, 25 

trod the ways of, 140 

unknown to, 410 

vain pomp and, 310 

wails manhood in, 326 

we steer, 't is to, 286 

which is brighter than the sun, 437 

your future has deeds of, 409 
Glory-dazzled world, to tell the, 432 



Index 



577 



Glory 's morning gate, through, 105 
Gloss, an unwholesome, 171 
Gloucester fisherman, the wife of 

some, 99 
Glove, a sentence is but a cheveril, 447 

our falcon in our, 344 

upon that hand, 47 
doves, 153 
Glow, Burgundy in all its sunset, 344 

leaps with a burning, 173 

a warmth about to, 225 

breast ne'er learned to, 35 

my heart has learned to, 174 

with wisdom, 283 
Glowed the firmament, now, 268 

with his presence, 87 
Glowing hours, to chase the, 71 
Glows with faith and pride, 173 
Glow-worm, 153 
Gloze, have taught to, 105 
Glut your ire, and, 193 
Gnarling sorrow hath less power to 

bite, 375 
Gnats in cobwebs, faster than, 168 
Gnawing in the breast, 64 
Go, and like wind I, 435 

and men may, 116 

as good to die and, 89 

at once, but, 157 

before, if money, 267 

but let him, 422 

forth under the open sky, 362 

from your presence forth I, 328 

grieve, and they turn and, 329 

higher, can Bourbon or Nassau, 317 

in it, there 's, 467 

in they, 21 

in, would fain, 253 

I have been there and still would, 
312 

know not why you, 100 

must needs, 87 

nor sit nor stand but, 328 

on for ever, I, 116 

onward, all day the iron wheels, 439 

out, would fain, 253 

right, ef he hollers out Gee, 461 

see ere thou, 230 

so much on religion, I don't, 330 

the curt-tongued mills say, 413 

't is mine to, 328 

togither, ma'akin' 'em, 241 

to heaven, by easy trips may, 1 

to the wars, would you, 434 

to your Gawd like a soldier, a 

we know not where, 90 

when such comers must, 338 

where munny is, but, 267 

with you, may I, 246 
Goad us on to sin, that doth, 347 
Goal of ill, the final, 160 

comes surest to the, 324 

the grave is not its, 222 

we reach the, 221 
Goat, catch the wild, 350 

shave like the, 153 



373 



Goatskin water-bag, an' a, 420 

Goblet, 153 

hallows all it holds, the, 68 
has scorned the flashing, 321 

Goblins, 153 

God, 153-157 

a death, we owe, 89 

a little, round, fat, oily man of, 289 

all end in love of, 269 

Almighty's gentleman, 51 

Almighty's gentlemen, 51 

Almighty's guns were going off, 147 

Almighty's storm, we euchred, 115 

alone belongs, vengeance to, 423 

a mighty fortress is our, 140 

and blushed, saw its, 435 

and good books, I trust in, 31 

and Mammon, yon servitor of, 247 

and man is, know what, 135 

and nature, faith in, 156 

and nature hath assigned, that, 262 

and nature, which, 383 

and our right, 338 

and the angels, I b'lieve in, 330 

and the Prophet, 63 

are hers, the eternal years of, 415 

as lightning does the will of, 144 

at home with, 108 

bade me act for him, 93 

beloved in old Jerusalem, O woman, 

4So 
be thanked, the meanest, 243 
be this juice the growth of, 69 
be ye fixed on your, 5 
blessed once, what, 159 
by his spirit, of kin to, 248 
by night an atheist half believes a, 

calls virtue, when, 227 

cast all your cares on, 9 

could have, doubtless, 10 

daughter of the voice of, 73 

defend the right, 338 

do the holy will of, 207 

do we come from, 25 - 

doth is best, that what, 3 74 

each moment, give to, 227 

ef you want to take in, 431 

endures forever, surely, 380 

erects a house of prayer, wherever, 

87 
for, for the cause, 19 
for power, nor paltered with eternal, 

418 
for spite, as if they worshipped, 302 
for use had given, powers which, 

142 
freedom to worship, 464 
gave her peace, 323 
given to, 56 

gives us to see the right, as, 337 
gives wind by measure, 209 
give us men, 259 
God, archangel call archangel, and, 

275 
had I but served my, 357 



578 



Index 



God 

had sifted three kingdoms, 276 

has bowed me down, 32 

has given, the gift which, 237 

has given you one face, 118 

has need of him, when, 248 

hath made him, every man is as, 

249 
hath made them so, 95 
he could not free, himself from, 39 
help me, I cannot do otherwise, 383 
helps them that help themselves, 

179 
her seat is the bosom of, 212 
he 's true to, 249 
himself, an attribute to, 260 
his life a breath of, 248 
if Jesus Christ is a, 196 
in after-days, raise this soul to, 293 
in clouds, 176 
in forma pauperis to, 388 
is calling sunward, souls which, 439 
is God, since, 337 
is good, 360 

is just, when I reflect that, 414 
is marching on, while, 225 
is not mocked for ever, 301 
is obedience to, 328 
is our trust, in, 415 
is overhead, I believe that, 77 
is seen God, 3 

it is and it is not the voice of, 301 
justify the ways of, 200 
knows, the rest, 87 
let us worship, he says, 464 
like a soldier, an' go to your, 373 
made, the thing the Lord, 402 
made him, and therefore, 251 
made sech nights, 152 
made the country, 64 
makes instruments, that, 389 
may dwell, where a, 367 
may give thee, what strength thy, 

429 
mount his chariot of fire, 255 
nature is the art of, 13 
nearer my, 278 
never did, doubtless, 10 
never made his work, 172 
not one of them is forgotten before, 

320 
not unmarked of, 177 
of all, as, 38 
of my idolatry, the, 394 
of storms, and give her to the, 133 
one, one law, 322 
one man with, 247 
one more insult to, 467 
or devil, with him was, 324 
or man, never a law of, 212 
pity is the touch of, 305 
pity them both and pity us all, 470 
poetry is itself a thing of, 309 
prosper your affairs, 319 
pseudo Privy Councillors of, 347 
put your trust in, 311 



God 

rest ye, merry gentlemen, 51 

said, let Newton be, 281 

said of old to a woman, 365 

save our king, 201 

save our lord the king, 308 

sealed for Charlie's sake, 365 

seed of witnesses for, 441 

see the hand of, 341 

seen in dreams from, 99 

sendeth and giveth, 271 

sends me love, 232 

send us peace, 299 

servant of, well done, 357 

shall raise me up, my, 406 

shall reply to, 147 

somewhere has just relieved a 

picket, 384 
spontaneously to, 279 
steadfast in the strength of, 179 
still giveth his beloved sleep, 369 
stoops, who thinks, 108 
sue in forma pauperis to, 312 
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, 

209 
thank, you are rid of a knave, 422 
that this nation under, 276 
that under, 276 
the fane of, 114 
the first garden made, 64 
the laws of nature and of nature 's 

356 
the noblest work of, 183 
the other to the altar's, 312 
the peace of, 75 
the protector, you will find in your, 

there's a background of, 314 

the sunflower turns on her, 393 

think himself an act of, 248 

'tis only, 177 

though the mills of, 262 

though he were ten times slain, 199 

to man, so near is, 104 

to scan, presume not, 250 

through darkness up to, 7 

up to nature's, 278 

vindicate the ways of, 200 

where every, 250 

while we are doubly false to, 213 

who builds a church to, 53 

who gave us life, the, 217 

who loveth us, the dear, 314 

will pardon all that's past, 429 

will save thy sailor, praying, 347 

wills, yet if, 199 

within the light of, 334 

within the shadow, standeth, 417 

woman, the last the best reserved of , 

453 
worship freely given to, 464 
writes a legible hand, if, 426 
wun't leave us yit, 320 

Goddess, 157 

fair and free, come thou, 264 

God-fearing man, as a brave, 313 



Index 



579 



Godhead, a feeling from the, 233 
God-illumined earth should see, and, 

4i7 
God-in-man is one, where, 313 
Godlike, 157 

is it all sin to leave, 365 
Godliness, next to, 55 
God's altar, one nearer to, 312 

benison go with you, 24 

doth then show likes t, 260 

finger touched him, 371 

first temples, the groves were, 400 

great judgment seat, stand pres- 
ently at, 391 

image, a reasonable creature, 30 

name, stand back to back in, 131 

own hand, and, 184 

patience, abusing of, 113 

plan and measure, 250 

pure light, in, 198 

right hand, touch, 156 

sons are things, 459 

to thee, and what thy, 151 

word 's our warrant, 409 
Gods, 157 

angels would be, 316 

are just, the, 425 

as a dish fit for the, 201 

call dross, and the, 102 

daughter of the, 94 

howling to his, 73 

kings it makes, 186 

must yield, even, 330 

pine for my abode, the strong, IS9 

the, on murderers, 28 

the temples of his, 89 

where monkeys were the, 316 

worship dirty, 158 
God's-acre, 157 
Goes all the day, merry heart, 174 

as useless if it, 190 

bravely on, the work, 459 

easily, your wit ambles well, it, 
447 

on the earth, the earth, 106 

out, a soul, 113 

out sighing, and farewell, 438 

round forever, the world, 462 

to my heart, the way he says 
darling that, 72 

to the earth, the earth, 106 

to the wall, the weakest, 430 

toward love, love, 239 

up, the world, 442 
Goest, ride more than thou, 362 
Goeth every Sunday, his plough, 421 
Going, 157 

back on him, and I 'm not, 77 

ech aboute other, 53 

guest, speed the, 167 

my valour is certainly, 423 

off, God Almighty 's guns were, 147 

where are you, 246 
Goings in and out, a few more, 222 
Gold, 157, 158 

and silver can buy, a knot that, 206 



Gold 

and the rocks pure, 197 

as its purest, 453 

barbaric pearl and, 107 

beauty provoketh thieves sooner 
than, 21 

betrayed for, 15 

despise, what female heart can, 44 

Eden 's green and, 13 

for a' that, the man 's the, 249 

for what he lent him, 82 

fruit of vegetable, 414 

gives only the worthless, 7 

glittering in, 106 

gleaming in purple and, 14 

I 'd locked my heart in a case o', 231 

its ounce of, 177 

kissed that haughty scroll of, 1 1 1 

love, in these are sunk, 193 

not the, 14 

scarfs, garters, 49 

sell and mart your offices for, 294 

spared neither land nor, 341 

the honour proof to place or, 185 

the love that's linked with, 203 

they refused the, 183 

to gild refined, 152 

transmute, leaden metal into, 162 

wedges of, 102 

where blood with, 27 

wich's more than, 357 

with pomp of pearl and, 353 
Golden age again, see the, 417 

bells, 437 

calf of Baal, 42 

hair, in their, 162 

lads and girls, 103 

mean alike condemn, both the, 237 

opinions, I have bought, 290 

seeme, gold al is not that doth, 158 
Gone, 158 

afay all, mit de lager beer, 297 

and are, 367 

and he is, 46 

and what 's past help, 166 

are faded and, 342 

are ye all, 381 

ay, Caesar, but not, 190 

from his grey hairs, 121 

he is dead and, 75 

now dimmed and, 258 

the flowers and fruits of love are, 22 

the old familiar faces, all are, 307 

to bed, lamp and, 108 

to her death, 420 

to-morrow he is, 364 

to the grave, thou art, 163 

when these are, 399 

wilt thou be, 283 

with a heaviness that's, 177 
Good, 159, 160 

a holy place, 52 

all partial evil, universal, 338 

and all, till they do for, 202 

and bad of every land, with some- 
thing, 8 



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Index 



Good 

and did too little, 202 

and ill, the weights of, 389 

and ill together, 222 

and just, study to be, 104 

and much that is, 29 1 

and out of, 116 

an ill winde turnes none to, 444 

are better made, the, 191 

as she, and, 180 

at pen and ink, 92 

attending Captain 111, Captive, 417 

book, a, 30 

books, God and, 31 

but rarely came from good advice, 3 

came of it at last, what, 425 

cannot prevail, my, 429 

cheer, at Christmas play and make, 

citizen, first requisite of a, 54 

crowning, repressing ill, 385 

deceit, that is, 82 

deed, kind of, 459 

deed dying tongueless, 83 

deed in a naughty world, 42 

deeds past, those scraps are, 407 

die first, the, 91 

digestion wait on appetite, 91 

divine that follows, 94 

do, by stealth, 123 

easy man, 164 

either excellently, 251 

enough for man, not, 56 

enough to be given a square deal, is, 

, 383 
evil, be thou my, 186 
fellow, he 's a, 178 
fellows, king of, 130 
fer a dog, is, 134 
fight, I have fought a, 131 
fight, who have fought the, 120 
for our country's, 64 
friend thou art, 78 
gifts, pounds and possibilities is, 311 
glow for others', 35 
grandam, there 's a, 162 
hater, a, 171 

he can, does himself all the, 386 
hold fast that which is, 320 
however, 31 
how kind, how, 46 
husband, get thee a, 189 
in every case, 't is, 390 
in everything, 3 
inspirations, have, 80 
is not original, the, 291 
is oft interred with their bones, 116 
I stand on, the, 417 
it is never, 281 
jest git all the, 49 
knowledge of, 414 
labours for his country's, 64 
length of days is not a, 223 
love sought is, 240 
luck shall fling her old shoe after, 
244 



Good 

luck would have it, as, 244 

make us lose the, 97 

manners won't let me tell, 22 

man to be sad, impious in a, 346 

man weeps, look, the, 438 

man 's feast, at any, 23 

man's life, best portion of a, 201 

man's love, for a, 238 

man's sin, for the, 287 

men, that these are, 176 

men, the lives of these, 301 

morning, bid me, 220 

more wit than does 'em, 447 

morrow, fool, 137 

name in man and woman, 275 

name is mine, your, 275 

news baits, while, 281 

not the ill wind which blows no 

man to, 444 
of bad, would make, 24 
of just and, 91 
of my country, for the, 64 
one out, fire my, 9 
only noble to be, 148 
or bad, nothing either, 402 
or bad a thousandfold, 157 
or evil side, for the, 83 
or ill, come, 150 
or ill, extreme in love or hate, in, 

449 
or ill, our angels are, or, 2 
or ill, the prophet of, 319 
our courtiers were, 22 
produce, equal, 117 
quality, never sees a, 70 
resign his own for others', 159 
rest, and so, 333 
she will do him, 45 1 
some said it might do, 317 
spirits may be in, 197 
sweet maid, be, 374 
temper, in good spirits and, 197 
that might have been, the, 434 
the crest and crowning of all, 38 
thet 's new, all ain't, 469 
the wise, the, 334 
they comprehend not, 156 
thy glorious works, parent of, 461 
to be noble we'll be, 148 
to die and go, 89 
to do his, 386 
to glow for others', 174 
to me is lost, all, 186 
't will do you, 40 
uncouth, makes ancient, 281 
war, there never was a, 430 
warfare 'twixt the evil and the, 433 
was spontaneous, what was, 261 
whets his appetite for moral, 312 
will, by service long to purchase 

their, 455 
will, peace and, 52 
wine needs no bush, 40 
wombs have borne bad sons, 374 
word, who never wanted a, 26 



Index 



58: 



Good 

work is ever lost, no, 460 

yoursel', ye wha are sae, 305 
Good-bye, proud world, 461 
Goodly apple rotton at the heart, 
1 1 

day to-morrow, gives signs of a, 393 

outside falsehood hath, 122 
Goodman 's awa', when our, 244 
Good-natured things alive, 140 
Goodness, 160 

and he fill up one monument, 267 

beauty brief in, 2 1 

let me bound, thy, 463 

share with thy birthright, 25 

that is cheap in beauty, 2 1 

to the vile seem vile, wisdom and, 
445 
Good-night, 160 

bids the world, 96 

I shall say, 296 

kiss was given, she thought our, 105 

say not, 220 

to each a fair, 371 

your vow, 70 
Goods a man has, the more, 279 

men looking at, 266 

on the counter, throwing . . . , 15 

thy lands and, 134 
Goose a swan, lad, and every, 469 

fat pig and, 322 

so grey, there swims no, 255 

to hear thee slandered, 304 
Goose-pen, write with a, 148 
Goose-quill, ink and paper, pay for, 
„ 317 
Gordian, 161 

Gore one way or kick the other, 292 
Gored, my fame is shrewdly, 332 
Gorge rises at it, my, 468 
Gorgonized me from head to foot, 384 
Gorgons, 161 

Gorilla, distinguishable from a, 255 
Gory locks at me, never shake thy, 

229 
Gossamer links, who can follow the, 

15 
Gospel, 161 

in law and, 380 

texts, blends, 247 
Gossips, 161 
Got there, how the devil they, 458 

where any thing is to be, 394 
Goths, and glut your ire, 193 

had a wise custom, the ancient, 82 
Govern, 161 

our conditions, 127 

the world, syllables, 395 
Governed, from the consent of the, 

161 
Government, 161 

ain't to answer for it, 156 

for bread, having looked to, 26 

land of settled, 144 

most important department under, 
54 



Government 

of the people, by the people, for the 
people, 276 

preservation of the general, 299 

unless against the, 345 
Governments, 161 

Governs the world, a little foolery, 137 
Gown, 161 

texts enough to wear a parson's, 
401 

who preaches in her, 295 
Gowns of silk, no, 220 
Grace, 161 

and remembrance be to you both, 
343 

his mysteries of, 154 

if possible with, 266 

impart, if I am right, thy, 397 

I pray for, 413 

is saying, while, 372 

not to the righteous perfect, 324 

of our line, the shelter and, 49 

supreme in, 154 

that makes simplicity a, 364 

the herb of, 179 

the power of, 274 

this latter age, to, 422 

thy, thy more than beauty, 236 

was seated on his brow, but a, 250 

with one half so good a, 260 

would scorch thy smiling, 377 
Graced with polished manners and 

fine sense, though, 463 
Graceful ease and sweetness, 128 
Graces, an angel-guard of loves and, 
452 

that are sure to please, age lends 
the, 94 

to the grave, lead these, 21 
Gracious, 161 

Gradation, not by the old, 315 
Gradual steps, but by, 31 
Graduates, 162 
Grain, the smell of, 371 

to refuse the needful, no 
Grains of wheat, are as two, 327 
Grammar school, in erecting a, 317 
Granary, 162 
Grand, but less, 408 



authorized by her, 3S9 

that had buried her, 239 

to please his, 372 
Grander, something better and, 190 
Grandeur hear, nor, 310 

rolls, the moon's unclouded, 268 

to our dust, so nigh is, 104 

springs, old Scotia's, 352 
Grandsire, sit like his, 264 
Grant, 162 

it so, but then, we, 259 

me to see the light, 313 
Granted, soon as, 237 
Gran'thers they knowed sunthin' tu, 
469 



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Index 



Grants them, but his who, 394 
Grape, 162 

glory, the, 193 

of Eastern France, the foaming, 344 
Grapes of wrath are stored, the, 153 

sours ripe, 118 
Grapple them to thy soul, 146 
Grasp, dropped from her nerveless, 
142 

from the strong iron, 127 

it firmly, 449 

it like a man of mettle, 280 

never shall in friendly, 97 

the bones, trembled not to, 29 

the ocean, or, 263 

with a fast and fervent, 263 
Grasped thus, as may be, 36 
Graspest at the stones, old yew vvhich, 

468 
Grasps in the comer, 167 
Grass, 162 

among, haste the dewy, 151 

overhead and damp clay around, 
rank, 229 

plucking the, 444 

star-scattered on the, 152 

the smell of tedded, 371 
Grass -green turf, a, 75 
Grate, or a dry wheel, 309 
Gratify thy lover, inclined to, 100 
Gratitude and love, hymns of, 173 
Grave, 162-164 

adorned, thy humble, 139 

and ocean was their, 288 

and on that, 304 

apart, to keep a dream or, 220 

approach thy, 227 

aspect he rose, with, 85 

a throne, a, 462 

away, roll the stone from its, 186 

calls virtue to the, 227 

drop thy foolish tears upon my, 76 

earliest at his, 67 

for its last bed of the, 375 

for me, this be the verse you, 163 

he went, to his red, 420 

if dreams infest the, 98 

in his vast and wandering, 347 

in the dark and silent, 406 

is like to be my wedding bed, my, 
254 

is not its goal, the, 222 

it consecrates each, 157 

I who have troubled the dead man 's, 
448 

lead these graces to the, 21 

lies silent in the, 412 

low in his, 267 

my father's, did utter, 37 

new-born, from some new, 376 

newly torn from the, 37c 

no ghost come from the, 4^6 

not have strewed thy, 36 

of France, the deadly Waterloo, 
the, 435 

on an unknown, 373 



Grave 

quickly have the gift of a, 323 

rot asleep to the, 144 

sleep with thee in the, 114 

that folds thy, 334 

that reached into the, 145 

that was newly made, nigh to a, 357 

the mattock and the, 401 

the secrets of the, 368 

the silent, 228 

the steps of glory to the, 152 

this, this dust, 406 

to a welcome, 9 

to glory o'er the, 152 

to his rest in the, 269 

to lay him in his, 184 

without a, 85 
Graved in paradise, 73 
Grave-maker, 164 
Grave-makers, ditchers and, 150 
Grave-making, sings at, 70 
Graven, hammered and rolled, mol- 
ten, 157 
Graves, 164 

all gaping wide, that the, 282 

and ghosts break up their, 352 

church and yard are full of sea- 
men's, 355 

emblem of untimely, 88 

find ourselves dishonourable, 58 

of our dead, when they laurel, 212 

over men 's, 202 

two, grass-green, 224 

we lie in, for the, 176 
Gravity, profound conceit, 291 

with a loyal, 120 
Gray has drawn, Mr., 151 
Graze, when beasts most, 393 
Grease, 164 

Greasy commodities, an' such, 16 
Great, 164 

and small, attends both, 123 

a pang as, 80 

but our hearts are, 175 

danger, we are in, 65 

deal worse, and sometimes a, 249 

deep, from the, to the great deep, 18 

God is, 154 

have kindness in reserve, the, 384 

if I do grow, 346 

in council and great in war, 43 

is the art of beginning, 109 

little fire grows, 132 

love grows there, 238 

man dies, so when a, 138 

man helped the poor, 341 

man was dead, that a, 75 

man 's memory may outlive his 
life, 258 

man 's smile, 42 

men, lives of, 138 

men, the heights by, 177 

men may jest with saints, 196 

men should drink, 100 

none could be unhappy but the, 265 

ones eat up the little ones, 133 



Index 



583 



Great 

ones 'longs, that to, 260 

right, to do a, 213 

that prince ... is truly, 317 

the frown o' the, 146 

the rule of men entirely, 301 

things we might do, 402 

toe, a Hottentot's, 266 

what makes men, 306 

when gazing on the, 434 

where little fears grow, 238 

where love is, 238 

wits are sure to madness, 245 
Greater, 164 

malady is fixed, where the, 247 

share of honour, the, 185 

sin to keep a sinful oath, 287 

than they are, 145 

the art is of ending, 109 

therefore should our courage be, 65 
Greatest, and the, 212 

can but blaze, the, 123 

gentilman, take him for the, 150 

is untold, the, 30 

men, knows nothing of its, 259 

minds, productive of the, 41 

nation, an' risen up earth's, 277 

only are, as the, 43 

sailor since our world began, 347 

son, this is England's, 167 

worst and best, the, 147 
Greatly to find quarrel, 164 
Greatness, 164 

no, can censure 'scape, 42 

of God, build me a nest on the, 156 

of God, lay me a-hold of the, 156 

some achieve, 164 

the highest point of all my, 122 

thrust upon 'em, 164 

to think God's, 154 
Gree, bear the, 38 
Greece, Italy and England did adorn, 

3°9 
Greed, 165 
Greek, 165 

and Latin, in, 30 

small Latin and less, 211 
Greeks, 165 
Green, 165 

and all the trees are, 469 

and gold, Eden's, 13 

bedclothes, under, 21 

dare you haunt our hallowed, 304 

in judgment, when I was, 349 

in_ youth, now, 250 

misbegotten knaves in Kendal, 205 

one red, making the, 169 

peas, the first, 32 

sleeves, thunder to the tune of, 311 

that folds thy grave, as the, 334 

when summer is, 216 

whiles your boots are, 96 
Green-eyed jealousy, 195 
Greenland, Zembla, there at, 284 
Greenwich never could outdo, 32 
Greenwood, 165 



Grew, and still the wonder, 456 

the more by reaping, 32 

together, so we, 224 

up in the field, I, 259 
Grey, changing into, 225 

friar of orders, 145 

from her mantle of, 269 

hairs gone, from his, 121 

head which all men knew, 171 

mare is ill to live with, 253 

mare is the better horse, 253 

mare 's the better horse, when the, 
253 

my gallant, 448 

my hair is, 168 

or suits of, 220 

swims no goose so, 255 

the, under the willow, 28 
Greyhound in our hand, we hold our, 

344 
Grief, 165, 166 

and death were sated, here, 374 

and solitude have broken me, 32 

bliss, to make, 436 

flieth to it, 77 

forms, moods, shapes of, 448 

from sickness and from, 89 

holding that, 308 

is mute, two lips where, 208 

love is joy and, 234 

must then be mute, 38 

of a wound, take away the, 184 

or care, without, 219 

smiling at, 298 

that 't is a common, 1 

the canker and the, 223 

thine be the, 232 

two extremes of passion, joy and, 
297 

within thy breast, hide thy, 234 
Griefs, 166 

are ended by seeing the worst, 464 

began, ere England's, 166 

forgot his own, 125 

of all the, 195 
Grieve and they turn and go, 329 

Christ-like is it for sin to, 365 

for an hour, 448 

make the judicious, 199 

ye, a scornful word should, 352 
Grieves my soul that I must draw, it, 
442 

not, a thing that, 388 

the spirit, 215 
Grieving, 166 

what is knowledge but, 63 
Grim, a champion, 46 

and daring, the vessel, 43 
Grimace, through life 's, 81 
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed, 432 
Grin, for me to sit and, 323 

he owned with a, 316 

horrible, 282 
Grind, 166 

an axe to, 15 

slowly, the mills of God, 262 



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Index 



Grind 

the mill cannot, 434 

the poor, laws, 214 

your wheat all, 207 
Grinding life down from its mark, 439 

must needs tarry the, 41 
Grinds he all, with exactness, 262 
Grinning, not one now to mock your, 
468 

scorn, to, 195 
Grip, a middlin' tight, 330 

hold on with a bulldog, 40 

onlycro wbars loose the bulldog 's, 
40 

where ye feel your honour, 184 

with firm, 55 
Gripe of noose, our necks to, 311 
Griping grief the heart, 166 
Grit an' human natur', clear, 249 
Groan, a hush and then a, 76 

from shore to shore, 87 

men condemned alike to, 392 

with bubbling, 85 
Groaning and paraphrasin', 309 

every hour, 56 
Groans a slave, wherever, 144 

cool with mortifying, 264 

of the dying, 83 
Grog, I'll take the, 321 
Groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 

39 
Groping blindly in the darkness, 156 
Grossly fear'st thy death, 80 
Grossness, by losing all its, 424 

hiding the, 330 

of his nature, the, 189 
Ground, 166 

and gazes on the, 180 

brave lodgings for one in holy, 229 

built on another man 's, 187 

drops earliest to the, 146 

feet have trod the, 328 

for an acre of barren, 354 

knit hands and beat the, 409 

like water, spilt on the, 173 

now withering on the, 250 

of expediency, on the, 117 

on the, that perfection is Utopian, 
302 

pleasure lark-like nests upon the, 
316 

shall not fall on the, 320 

sleep low in the, 333 

think they should lay him i' the 
cold, 438 

thousands had sunk on the, 39 

to quit the, 224 

tread on classic, 55 

was a little damp, wherever, 437 

whispering from the, 298 
Groundlings, split the ears of the, 379 
Grove, the court, the camp, the, 237 
Groves were God's first temples, the, 

400 
Grow againe, will ne'er make, 426 

apace, great weeds do, 438 



Grow, make . . . two blades of grass 
to, 162 

the rashes, green, 165 

thou too didst, 377 

will with the burden, 389 
Growed, 166 

Growing, while man is, 81 
Growl and fight, let bears and lions, 95 

beware of his echoing, 226 
Growled, it cracked and, 190 
Grows a flower on every bough, there, 
203 

an' proputty, proputty, 319 

aslant a brook, a willow, 444 

into the great sun, 73 

lives and dies in single blessedness, 
342 

since when it, 100 

the more the statue, 385 
Growth, a misshapen and untimely, 
416 

a plant of slow, 60 

idle weeds are fast in, 438 

of God, be this juice the, 69 

with my body's, 377 
Grubs, or, or worms, 458 
Grudge, 166 
Gruel, I 'm sick of, 363 
Grumble drat that cat, 44 
Grundy, 166 

what is your opinion, Mrs., 345, 393 
Grunt and sweat under a weary life, 

79 
Guaranteed his liberty, must be, 338 
Guard, 166 

our native seas, that, no 

their noses, people ought to, 285 
Guardian angels sung this strain, 37 
Guards, 166 

and glory, 26 

de sheepfol' bin, dat, 358 

her, who, 443 

the right, heaven still, 338 
Gudgeons ere they're catched, to 

swallow, 48 
Guerdon be gained, ere the, 78 

but the fair, 123 
Guessed, but few have, 405 
Guest, 167 

because thou com'st a weary, 12 

claims the sated, 333 

if its undying, 377 

is meet, for such a, 303 

prepares it for another, 401 
Guests, 167 

star-scattered on the grass, 152 
Guide, 167 

be my virtue 's, 427 

their chime, all the way, to, 286 

to, and gladden, 384 

with providence their, 462 
Guides through the boundless sky, 

387 
Guiding star, like a, 179 
Guilt, 167 

away, can wash her, 136 



Index 



585 



Guilt 

deep in ruin as in, 342 

each thing of sin and, 47 

those who fear not, 123 

to cover, her, 136 
Guiltless as on Monday, as, 393 

of his country's blood, 168 

wife, spare my, 15 
Guilt's blunder, 336 

in that heart, if, 236 
Guilty acts, unknown facts of, 99 

glory glows, where neither, 434 

man, thou, 28 

mind, suspicion always haunts the, 
394 

of his own death, not, 213 

thing, like a, 57 
Guinea, 167 

but the jingling of the, 185 
Guinea 's stamp, but the, 249 
Guineas chink, he made the, 183 
Gulf, hell to its last, 165 

of death, bright beyond the, 159 
Gull, to the shark and the sheering, 

113 
Gum, Arabian trees their medicinal, 

399 
Gun, 167 

an' each dumb, 299 

clang of bell and roar of, 23 

hot gun-lip kissin', 347 

the holy text of pike and, 329 
Gunga Din, a swig in hell from, 39s 
Gun-lip kissin' gun, hot, 347 
Gunpowder, blow up the infernal ma- 
chine with, 403 
Guns begin to shoot, when the, 410 
peal on peal, how the great, 23 
were going off, God Almighty 's, 147 
Gurgling of water, a, 99 
Gushed forth, streams of revenue, 
340 
out amain, the blood, 27 
Gushes cold and bright, Rhine 's breast- 
milk, 344 
Gushing of a rill, there 's music in the, 

272 
Gusset and band, seam and, 460 
Gust of long-suspended Ahs, one 
stormy, 188 
to allay the, 323 
with the least, 3 
Gusts will blow out fire, 132 
Gutter caterwauls, who in the, 44 
Guttural, whistling, grunting, 210 



H 

H, 167 
Habit, 167 

costly thy, 11 

if I do not put on a sober, 372 

of drinking, the, 102 
Habitation, a local, 308 
Habits, 167 



Hack, 168 

for lack of somebody to hew and, 
26 
Hacks and your pointers, worse housed 

than your, 323 
Haggard, 168 
Hags and hideous wenches, rags and, 

. 387 
Hail, Columbia, 58 

the rising sun, let others, 392 

to the chief, 49 

wedded love, 437 
Hailed it in God's name, we, 154 

the wretch, the inhuman shout 
which, 362 

thundered, lightened and, 389 

what so proudly we, 1 7 
Hails you Tom or" Jack, that, 405 
Hair, 168 

a bone and a hank of, 136 

and each particular, 381 

as free, 364 

distinguish and divide a, 93 

dries them with his, 194 

grew curlier, his, 311 

her lovely floating, 30 

in their golden, 162 

more, or a hair less, that hath a, 322 

the few silver threads out of my, 
340 

the ninth part of a, 45 

they singed her, 208 

the weight of a, 351 

with your 'ayrick 'ead of, 147 
Hairs, from his grey, 121 

more faults than, 168 

to observe the forms of, 458 
Hairy springes, with, 168 
Halcyon, 168 
Half, 168 
Half a dime to a dime, from, 403 

after ten, we take ten or, 210 

a kiss, I think there is not, 243 

an hour every morning, put it back, 
434 

a truth, a lie which is, 219 

a year, memory may outlive his 
life, 258 

be reaped for nothing, nor shall, 460 

his foe, overcome but, 139 

its evil, vice itself lost, 424 

resignation, and one, 454 

the creeds, than in, 97 

there 's but a shirt and a, 361 

the zeal, but served my God with, 
357 

thy fears, my hopes for, 409 

thy tears, my smiles for, 409 
Half-brother of the world, America, 8 
Half-control his doom, man can, 338 
Half-hour 's good consideration, an- 
other, 210 
Half-penny, two pence for every, 193 

loaves, seven, 130 
Halfpenny-worth of bread, but one, 
346 



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Index 



Half-shirt is two napkins, the, 361 
Half-shut eyes, with his, 57 
Half-way down the slope to hell, 316 
Hall, ambition's airy, 367 

from its station in the, 280 

logs into the, 190 

raced into the, 36 

round the dim-lighted, 317 

sorrow darkens hamlet and, 271 

the Douglas in his, 85 

when beards wag all, merry in, 261 
Halloo, the soldier's wild, 181 

with that, wild, 63 
Hallow the day, the nisrht will, 442 

us there, seems to, 182 
Hallows all it holds, the goblet, 68 
Halls, a chief in her, 63 

are crowded, feast and your, 129 

of death, in the silent, 227 

the harp that once through Tara 's, 
170 
Halt, 't is no matter if I do, 301 
Halter, will come and cut the, 254 
Halts, nor, though hope be dim, 390 
Halyard, staff or the, 112 
Hamlet and hall, sorrow darkens, 271 

forefathers of the, 108 

two children in one, 224 
Hamlets round, four voices of, 52 
Hammer of industry, swings the, 410 

the ore, I, 3S6 
Hammered and rolled, molten, graven, 
157 

from a hundred towers, 284 
Hammers, with greasy aprons, rules 

and, 368 
Hammock at the roaring bows, for a, 8 
Hammock-shroud, his heavy-shotted, 

347 
Hampden, 168 
Ham 's were scattered through the 

Sandwich Isles, 350 
Hand, 169 

a good sword and a trusty, 63 

all thy own to the last, a, 3 1 

and God 's own, 184 

and heart, take, 78 

and my heart, I give my, 366 

and with as delicate a, 5 7 

a palace and a prison on each, 424 

a sinful heart makes feeble, 366 

as much in laying the, 397 

can hold, which the, 7 

clay bleeding and aching in the 
potter's, 107 

could'st not see thy, 72 

East with richest, 107 

examine well his milk-white, 36 

finds ready to, 54 

glove upon that, 47 

go cold, both foot and, 6 

handle toward my, 70 

he leans upon his, 152 

her 'prentice, 211 

his heart and, 84 

his parting guest by the, 167 



Hand 

his work a singing with his, 374 

hold a fire in his, 191 

I argue not against heaven 's, 387 

I fear thy skinny, 253 

if God writes a legible, 426 

in a row, an awkward, 135 

in hand they passed, the loveliest 

pair, 294 
in hand, . . . through Eden took 

their solitary way, 462 
in thine, or place my, 127 
leans her cheek upon her, 47 
man with eight trumps in his, 415 
me the cup, 78 

Nature 's own sweet and cunning, 2 1 
of Douglas is his own, 97 
offence 's gilded, 289 
of God, see the, 341 
of little employment, 70 
of such as Marmion, 97 
of the Angel of the Resurrection, 33 
of the reaper, the, 326 
of war, the, 112 
of woman, with the weak, 449 
on kings, Death lays his icy, 127 
open as day, 161 
or eye, what immortal, 405 
outside of his, 158 
root and all, in my, 135 
saw the air too much with your, 379 
she layeth her, 451 
sorrow's heavv, 175 
that fed them, bite the, 26 
that hovers o'er her mate, 97 
that kings have lipped, 205 
that rounded Peter's dome, 39 
that slanted back this brow, 195 
the, just raised to shed his blood, 27 
the kindlier, 174 
the lifted, in awe, 272 
the ploughman near at, 307 
the sound in his, 183 
the vessel made, with his, 107 
then of the potter, 178 
this weak unknowing, 71 
though trembling, 26s 
to do, a, 1.73 
to execute, 173 
to me, stretch out your, 140 
to pour sad tears upon thy, 293 
touch God 's right, 156 
trembles, when his, 309 
up to heaven, raised his right, 424 
upon the ark, lay their, 12 
upon the ocean 's mane, laid his, 2S8 
upon thy mane, laid my, 288 
upon thy sword, never lay thy, 39s 
we cannot hold mortality 's strong, 

270 
we hold our greyhound in our, 344 
we scatter seeds with careless, 355 
which ends a dream, like the, 77 
who will stand on either, 37 
with dying, above his head, 47 
with dying, the rudder held, 304 



Index 



587 



Hand 

with his satchel in his, 440 

with mug in, 440 

without squeezing, a pretty girl's, 
383 

work of our head and, 45 1 

you cannot see, I see a, 428 
Handful, are but a, 74 

of men as we were, 113 

of silver he left us, just for a, 336 

o' things I know, the, 330 
Handfuls of coals and rice, with, 175 
Handle toward my hand, 70 

which fits them all, is the, 218 

you, thus our nails shall, 304 
Handling, abides no, 44 
Hands, 169 

and beat the ground, knit, 409 

and helpless, the feeble, 156 

and ready, 259 

and your conscience be honest, 55 

are, whatsome'er their, 119 

are weeping and wringing their, 132 

at the palms of my, 423 

blows his numbing, 207 

by foreign, 139 

clap, and a bargain, 18 

clapped their chapped, 43 

fashion, our own, 67 

folding at last his, 62 

hath not a Jew. 197 

have found, the weapons which 
our, 403 

his owne two, 206 1 

his wee white, 176 

in his glowing, 241 

I warmed both, 221 

lords of our own, 141 

many with crossed, 416 

o' cowards, thet tarries long in, 143 

of a little child, like the, 49 

on him, shall we not lay, 401 

out, I stretch my, 313 

that heaved, ill fare the, 29 

that the rod of empire, 109 

that 'twixt her, 465 

the folded, 369 

then with praying, 255 

to do, for idle, 190 

turned his back on jewelled, 321 

unclean, makes civil, 54 

upon his breast, folding at last his, 
62 

upon the breast, two, 208 

upon your sword, lay your, 395 

wants both. 190 

with invisible soap, washing his, 
372 

wring from the hard, 267 
Handsaw, I know a hawk from a, 245 
Handsome faces, with regard to, 455 

in three hundred pounds, 12S 
Handy, anything that 's, 44 
Hang, and wretches, 92 

on him, she would, n 

out our banners, 17 



Hang round it still, will, 258 

separately, or assuredly we shall 
all, 420 

themselves, 254 

the panel, more ready to, 199 

together, we must indeed all, 420 

upon thy tongue, while listening 
senates, 11 
Hanged, 169 

him, they would have, 93 
Hanging, 169 

and wiving goes by destiny, 86 
Hangman 's whip, a, 184 
Hangs as mute on Tara 's walls, 170 

a tale, thereby, 396 

or saves, 306 
Hank of hair, a bone and a, 136 
Hanover, 170 

Hans Breitmann gife a barty, 297 
Happened, 170 

Happening, in the way of things, 170 
Happier, 170 

hours restore the gift, till, 203 

hours, the life of joy in, 435 

things, is remembering, 375 

to arise, the, 121 
Happiest moments, I owe the, 397 

pair, kindest and the, 138 
Happily to steer, 162 
Happiness, 170 

below, virtue alone is, 427 

for comfort and for, 125 

is produced, by which so much, 192 

of life, work done is the true, 460 

result, 192 

their harmony foretells, world of, 
437 

we prize, if solid, 182 
Happy, 170 

as this little island, so, 194 

breed of men, this , 112 

could I be with either, 47 

days, a world of, 99 

days, happy mixtures of more, 264 

is he born and taught, how, 418 

is the blameless vestal's lot, 140 

is the rose distilled, earthlier, 342 

land, hail Columbia, 58 

man henceforth is he, a, 348 

man's without a shirt, the, 360 

moment I have had, von only, 200 

ought the rich to feel, how, 266 

the man that when his day is done, 
62 

the man who, void of cares and 
strife, 359 

they who wait no more, 98 

thou art not, 170 

who in his verse, 162 

why so few marriages are, 280 

with you, to be, 125 

years, ah, 33 
Harbour bar be moaning, though the, 
132 

cleared, the, 359 

give, which in life did, 427 



Index 



Hard and cold, 157 

and it shall go, 197 

and sour, are, 17s 

dealings teaches them, 51 

doom did receive, 115 

grey weather, 'tis the, 113 

hurls back an epithet as, 114 

it is to hide the sparks of nature, 
278 

it's very, to live in such a row, 290 

nothing 's so, 14 

to come as for a camel, 42 

't shall go, no 

water is soft, and marble, 252 
Harder matter to fight, is a, 219 
Hardest knife ill-used, 206 

science to forget, 139 
Hard-hearted is Joe, 413 
Hardship, from danger, from, 390 
Hare of whom the proverb goes, 423 
Hare-lip, makes the, 135 
Hark, 170 

and from the dark park, 115 
Harm for love, hate hath no, 300 

I fear we '11 come to, 267 
Harmony, 170 

foretells, world of happiness their, 
437 

like deep, 105 

not understood, all discord, 338 

of the world, her voice the, 212 
Harms, how to redress their, 231 
Harness, he died in, 90 

in, here he died, 90 

mailed, in sombre, 87 

on our back, 90 

on their throats, with, 100 
Harp, 170 

talking is like playing on the, 397 

of life, love took up the, 241 
Harping, 171 

Harrow up thy soul, would, 380 
Harsh, out of tune and, 327 

to hear, and, 400 
Harshest word comes aptest, 114 
Hart ungalled play, 84 
Harvest, come to reap the, 460 

home of day, and brings the, 470 
Has been, what has been, 221 
Hasp, and fixed the brazen, 263 
Hassock, passing by the customary, 

312 
Hast, forget'st, what thou, 170 

those friends thou, 146 
Haste, 171 

might tell a hundred, with moderate, 
188 

mounting in hot, 271 

the dewy grass among, 151 

thee, nymph, 196 

those that with, 131 
Hasty as fire, 324 

spark, shows a, 209 
Hat, 171 

a' brushes his, 239 

his cockle, 57 



Hat 

lay my head to any good man 's, 214 

the old three-cornered, 323 

thus with my, 372 
Hatch a lark, the raven doth not, 326 
Hatched, before they are, 48 

count their chickens ere th 're, 48 
Hatching the egg, sooner have the 

fowl by, 108 
Hate, 171 

and a certain loathing, a lodged, 327 

another nation, right to, no 

a smile to those who, 363 

extreme in love or, 449 

from the creatures, meet, 319 

hath no harm for love, 300 

hide his love or, 119 

him for he is a Christian, I, 421 

I know not of his, 160 

immortal, 231 

implacable in, 385 

in the like extreme, 237 

Juno 's unrelenting, 13 

thee, I love thee and, 327 

thee, those hearts that, 48 

with a pardon for the foes who, 363 

whom envy dared not, 434 

whose breaths I, 69 
Hated, as to be, 425 

bear-baiting, the Puritans, 321 

be to be, 126 

by one he loves, 15 

like men, there was naething I, 458 

yet caressed, 67 
Hater, 171 
Hates a woman, for him that, 452 

our sacred nation, he, 193 

that excellence it cannot reach, and 
1 14 

the smell of roses, she, 343 
Hathaway, Anne, 436 
Hating no one, and, 83 
Hatred, battle, and strife, 215 

scoffing and abuse, 368 

the hereditary, 130 

turned, like love to, 324 
Haunch and the hump is Obey, and 

the, 287 
Haunt, life exempt from public, 3 

our hallowed green, dare you, 304 
Haunted, holy ground, 't is, 181 

the place is, 69 
Haunts the guilty mind, suspicion 

always, 394 
Have his day, dog, 45 

it, both eat thy cake and, 41 

it, 't is mine and I will, 263 

justice, thou shalt, 199 

less than that no man shall, 383 

more than thou showest, 362 

or have no wife, to, 442 

thee not, and yet, 70 

the more you, the more you want, 
43° 

us do, what force will, 139 
Haven under the hill, to their, 169 



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589 



Havoc, cry, 33s 

Hawk from a handsaw, I lenow a, 245 

like a, my soul, 37s 

shall nestle with the dove, 300 
Hawked at and killed, 121 
Hawks, between two, 213 

nosegays from street to street, 343 
Hawthorn in the dale, under the, 307 
Hay, went to pieces like a lock of, 166 
Hayrick 'ead of 'air, with your, 147 
Hazard of new fortunes, a. 141 

of the die, 44 

what he fears to lose, should never, 
452 
Hazel eyes, because thou, hast, 322 
He said, and So said I, 62 

to Hecuba, or, 307 
Head, 171 

above his, 47 

above us all, half a, 250 

a grass-green turf at his, 75 

a journey in my, 21 

all my imperfections on my, 370 

and hand, work of our, 4s 1 

and shelter for thy, 182 

and the hoof of the law, the, 287 

a stone at the, 229 

be flung, snows may o'er his, 173 

beside my own, laid her, 243 

could carry all he knew, 456 

from the crown of his, 196 

gave his able horse the, 34s 

has been beaten, yet thy, 322 

his answer trickled through my, 414 

his madness was not of the, 24s 

here rests his, 237 

is as full of quarrels, 322 

is bloody but unbowed, my, 28 

is bowed, while thy, 347 

lifts the, 59 

lumber in his, 30 

man with the, 454 

my deeds upon my, 83 

now, to cover my, 68 

o'er manhood 's noble, 354 

of 'air, with your 'ayrick, 147 

of the host, at the, 63 

of Thompson in, caved the, 141 

on horror 's, 186 

on your puny, 108 

or in the, 124 

pressed once more the lifeless, 109 

she bowed, as if her, 268 

than overthrow the, 335 

that's to be let unfurnished, 57 

there's nothing like a bare and 
shiny, 94 

there was pride in the, 316 

thy, thy sovereign, 189 

thy fibres net the dreamless, 468 

to any good man 's hat, lay my, 214 

to contrive, a, 173 

to foot, gorgonized me from, 384 

to heel, an African, 266 

to plan, a, 173 

to shrowd his, 183 



Head 

to trample round my fallen, 76 

to the weary, 2 1 

turns no more his, 128 

uneasy lies the, 68 

unmellowed, his, 198 

wears a precious jewel in his, 3 

weeping at the feet and, 74 
Headache, cough and phthisic, it helps 

the, 445 
Headed with a knob of timber, 249 
Headland, on dune and, 139 
Heads, 172 

beast with many, 20 

do grow beneath their shoulders, 

I win, ditto tails, 444 

nodding their, 36 

stood in their breasts, 88 

whose clay-cold, 298 
Headstrong as an allegory, 6 
Heal and do well, would, 334 

it up, his eye did, 118 

that heaven cannot, 375 

the blows of sound, comes to, 364 
Healed by the same means, 197 

wounds I might have, 116 
Health, 172 

again dispense, should my Author, 
429 

and wealth have missed me, 204 

glad to drink your honour's, 310 

goes round, an eternal, 101 

have mind upon your, 139 

it might hurt, their, 360 

made bright my Burgundy, whose, 
274 

of Alonzo the Brave, to the, 379 

on both, and, 91 

test and safeguard of personal, 460 
Healthful life, remainder of his, 109 
Heap, in many a mouldering, 108 

of dust, a, 334 
Heaps, from out the scattered, 367 
Heaps of pearl, 102 
Hear, 172 

a brazen canstick, I had rather, 309 

and harsh to, 400 

didst thou not, 83 

gently to, 198 _ 

her speak again, desire to, 238 

himself talk, loves to, 396 

I hear a voice you cannot, 428 

it, doth he, 185 

it not, Duncan, 205 

no more, I '11, 282 

not now the booming waters, 354 

nothing, thou wilt, 115 

old Triton, 293 

the mellow wedding-bells, 437 

thy uttered name, 2 74 

't is sweet to, 438 

whom they cannot see or, 4s 5 

us sing, when you come to, 304 
Heard before, was never, 124 

ear hath not, 209 



590 



Index 



Heard his father say, asked but what 
he, 416 

in his life, he never, 1 1 

it, she wished she had not, 363 

I will be, 371 

no more, then is, 411 

not a drum was, 102 

of, more must be, 140 

thee last, roughly since I, 227 
Hearings, and younger, 196 
Hearken, come hither lads and, 74 
Hears him in the wind, 176 

it, of him that, 196 

the monarch, 15s 
Hearse, a grim one-horse, 298 
Heart, 172-175 

absence makes the, 1 

a detector of the, 81 

a face without a, 1 1 8 

again, come to my, 340 

again, shalltake, 138 

a great spirit and a busy, 220 

a little weeping would ease my, 438 

all offences come from the, 289 

all the aching of, 109 

and a hand all thy own to the last, 
31 

and a' that, soul and, 248 

and door, open thy, 242 

and flesh are weak, and if my, 436 

and hand, his, S4 

and in limb, English in, 113 

and live without. 63 

and me, that shall command my, 
358 

and soul, where, 204 

and that your, 237 

and the soul, employ all the, 229 

and true, a merry, 63 

a pike in his, 398 

a rake, is at, 325 

a sad, good Christian at her, 330 

as far from fraud, 29 

a stripling for a woman 's, 398 

as well as want of, 116 

bear it with an honest, 150 

best knoweth its own loss, 163 

be ye stout of, 232 

bread which strengtheneth man 's,35 

break not, O woman's, 35 

breaks, till your, 144 

but kills the, 236 

but not my, 364 

but one, and the, 281 

by the moans of their, 398 

can doubt, the choice what, 85 

can gain, if fond love thy, 456 

can ne'er a transport know, the, 448 

concealing it will break, my, 412 

cool, than my, 264 

destines for their, 106 

detests him, my, 218 

did know, every word, 340 

doth wound, the, 166 

each, and each cxvp, 116 

exults and sings, in youth the, 470 



Heart 

faded from the, 429 

faint, ne'er won fair lady, 120 

falls from a steady, 265 

for any fate, 2 

for every fate, a, 2 

for falsehood framed, a, 122 

forgiving at their, 140 

gave way, her woman's, 366 

goodly apple rotton at the, 11 

gushed from my, 27 

has burned, if with love thy, 234 

hath ne'er within him burned, 65 

his adversary's, 335 

how dear to this, 49 

I am sick at, 5 7 

I could find in my, 68 

if bursting, 233 

if guilt 's in that, 236 

I give my hand and my, 366 

I had rather coin my, 267 

I hold a mouses, 271 

in a case o' gowd, I 'd locked my, 

231 
indignant breaks, some, 143 
in splinters, and break his, 317 
in 't, mine with my, 169 
in the human, 114 
is audible, in which her, 203 
is human, every human, 156 
I sign to thet with all my, 431 
is left alone, 172 
... is not of ice, her, 328 
is pure, because my, 12 
is sorely charged, the, 363 
is still his master's own, 176 
joy to his mighty, 13 
just as high as my, 386 
leaps beneath the Future's, 115 
level in her husband 's, 454 
life 's tale to many a feeling, 221 
long, long be my, 258 
makes feeble hand, a sinful, 366 
memory plays an old tune on the, 

258 
mercy with a bleeding, 390 
must be tried by pain, as a, 158 
must have to cherish, 48 
my true-love hath my, 235 
never say that I was false of, 2 
no flesh in man 's obdurate, 38 
nor venture to unmask man's, 328 
of a man, all the good from the, 49 
of arts, and, 232 
of freedom, the throbbing, 144 
of her husband, the, 451 
of man, in the lip than in the, 14 
of nature, out from the, 24 
of the fool, but the, 200 
of our Lord, dear to the, 160 
of the toiler, and the, 410 
oh teach my, 397 
once pregnant, some, 109 
on fire, set the, 4 
on heart, and, 220 
on your dead heart, lay my, 140 



Index 



59i 



Heart 

ooen the door of thy, 240 

or hope, nor bate a jot of, 387 

or in the, 124 

outward, lie which works from the, 

451 
preaching down a daughter's, 73 
preferred in his, 339 
pure messengers sent from his, 29 
pursuing, a love-lorn, 458 
rebel, shall my, 125 
recalled a different name, each, 241 
ruddy drops that warm my, 443 
shall truly love you, my, 240 
shall you know his, 119 
she is the darling of my, 74^ 
shine in the untutored, 466 ' 
so strong, is thy, 215 
susceptible of pity, 262 
take hand and, 78 
take me again to your, 340 
take the proverb to thine, 434 
take thy beak from out my, 19 
tell me my, 235 
thanks to the human, 404 
that dotes, a. 246 
that has truly loved, the, 393 
that quivered in his, 106 
that rends the, 185 
that's broken, wound a, 358 
the broken in. 61 
the darling of my, 6 
then burst his mighty, 192 
then let thy, 236 
the ruddy drops that visit my sad, 

443 
the way he says darling that goes to 

my, 72 
the workings of his, 198 
tied a young man 's, 30 
to cinders, doth burn the, 298 
to curse my dog so, not have a, 395 
to feel, a, 419 
together, and whose, 240 
to heart, which, 237 
tongue will tell the anger of my, 412 
too tender or too firm a, 236 
to pity, melt his iron, 406 
to win the, 335 

two seeming bodies, but one, 221 
upon my sleeve, wear my, 371 
very pin of his, 118 
was every woman 's toy, my, 148 
was not of the head but, 245 
was that young faithful, 121 
what the false, 122 
which at even, the, 442 
which we call the, 403 
which weighs upon the, 263 
whispers the o'er-fraught, 165 
whose very strings would break, 10 
wilt thou cure thine, 232 
with a fire in thy, 69 
with all my, 156 
within, and a warm, 183 
woman with the, 454 



Heart 

would fain deny, the poor, 223 
wrapped in a woman 's hide, tiger 's, 
453 

Heartbreak him, until I, 294 

Heart-easing mirth, and by men, 264 

Hearth, 175 

in her mansions, 63 

holly round the Christmas, 32 

the cricket on the, 66 

woman for the. 454 

yield thee a, 182 

Heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, 
397 

Heart-quake, each kiss a, 204 

Heart 's blood of the brave, 34 
chain wove, my, 236 
desire, in your true, 83 
desires be with you, 86 
disgrace, hidden from the, 108 
most precious rain, the, 293 
most secret cell, in my, 296 
repose, more, 182 

Hearts, 173 

and lukewarm, 298 

are dry as summer dust, 91 

are fresh and simple, 156 

are more than coronets, kind, 148 

are sighing, two mutual, 203 

a thousand, beat happily, 334 

but once heaved, their, 77 

ensanguined, 88 

great, true faith, 259 

heavenly compassion in your, 73 

here bring your wounded, 375 

high, and brave, 354 

it takes something from our, 470 

love is the art of, 232 

of his countrymen, first in the, 132 

of kings, it is enthroned in the, 260 

of men, entrap the, 168 

of men, in the, 191 

of men, sifting out the, 415 

of oak are our men, 286 

of Spain, the stoutest, 111 

of the heathen, right into the, 314 

our, it ennobled, 22 

our soft conditions and our, 456 

pleads admission to our, 85 

press the life from out young, 296 

that roam, but not their, 367 

the cheerful, now broken, 258 

the feuds of ages, in their, 130 

the touch of God in human, 305 

that hate thee, those, 48 

that stirred our, 88 

that weep, ye doubting, 369 

though stout and brave, 163 

two, that beat as one, 224 

what bolder thought, in human, 411 

Heart-sick jesters weep behind the 
mask, 165 

Heartsome Ireland, 194 
with thee, where, 229 

Heart-strings, were my dear, 168 

Heart-throbs, count time by, 227 



592 



Index 



Heat, electricity, love, 237 

not a furnace, 136 

of fire, not the fierce, 4 

on fantastic summer 's, 191 

o' the sun, the, 103 

rank corruption 's, 64 

the cold that tempers, 369 

thou hast neither, 336 

to make a solid core of, 230 

with wine, rather, 264 
Heated hot in a moment, 50 
Heath, long, brown furze, 354 

my foot is on my native, 138 
Heathen, a very, in the carnal part, 
33° 

Chinee is peculiar, 50 

go, where, 376 

right into the hearts of the, 314 

you 're a pore benighted, 147 
Heather, go tramping over the, 361 
Heat-oppressed brain, the, 70 
Heaved the stones where Milton 's, 29 

those fossils, the way they, 141 
Heaven, 176, 177 

aboye, the angels in, 236 

a crime, is it in, 236 

a draught, if, 402 

allots thee, all that, 182 

all that we believe of, 452 

a man that hopes for, 40 

and earth, all things in, 212 

and earth, men at most differ as, 
259 

and earth, more things in, 303 

and hell he touched at, 244 

and hell myself am, 178 

and hell through, 196 

and hell women worst and best, as, 
259 

and the next waking dawned in, 105 

a regular debtor and creditor ac- 
count with, 352 

a rose in, 105 

a silver bow new bent in, 268 

as its purest gold, 453 

as low as hell 's from, 400 

as the gentle rain from, 260 

as the great eye of, 119 

beauteous eye of, 152 

before high, 251 

before the courts of, 313 

beloved by, 65 

below, Church is a little, 312 

breaks the serene of, 268 

cannot heal, that, 37s 

confess yourself to, 60 

conveyed, the opening bud to, 77 

dearest foe in, 73 

dimmed the light of, 155 

doomed to shed, by righteous, 157 

drop forgiveness from, 140 

earth's crammed with, 153 

far from earth, 29 

fasting, thank, 238 

find me and turn thy back on, 159 

first taught, 216 



Heaven 

for love is, 237 

for the last time the sun in, 420 

from all creatures hides, 127 

go, words without thoughts never 

to, 313 
God's in his, 154 

had made her such a man, that, 363 
has past, she to, 105 
has no rage like love to hatred 

turned, 324 
hath sent me fortune, 137 
help the husband, 348 
his blessed part to, 185 
in a lady 's lap, 209 
in her eye, 161 
in hope to merit, 177 
in their own way, praise, 217 
is blessed with perfect rest, 409 
is love, and, 237 

is not reached at a single bound, 208 
is registered in, 66 
it goes, from earth to, 262 
it may be that only in, 5 1 
itself descends, but, 233 
itself has wrought, are those which, 

4°3 
itself upon the past, not, 221 
it smells to, 272 
leave her to, 270 
light came from, 245 
louder than the bolts of, 13 
love indeed is light from, 233 
make a hell of, 263 
marriages are made in, 253 
may decrease it, yet, 238 
mend us all, 80 
nor earth, is not of, 332 
not beteem the winds of, 243 
number the stars in the, 205 
of hell, make a, 169 
of her delightful eye, the clear, 452 
of invention, the brightest, 272 
on bright wings towards, 122 
or hell for a man, that makes, 242 
or to hell, summons thee to, 205 
pursue, more than, 61 
rains down, the questions that, 8 
raised his right hand up to, 424 
robe and my integrity to, 340 
see this and bless, 50 
she did but dream of, 105 
she sent the gentle sleep from, 369 
shut thee from, 376 
so dear to, 47 
still guards the, 338 
than serve in, 329 
the front of, 277 
the hell I suffer seems a, 178 
the livery of the court of, 228 
themselves, sure of, 347 
things are the sons of, 459 
till the stars of, 429 
to earth, from, 308 
to know I'm farther off from, 331 
to pitying, are cast, 362 



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593 



Heaven 

to show the most of, 248 

'twixt earth and, 255 

upon earth, that, 21 

was exhaled and went to, 378 

was whispered in, 167 

were not heaven, 117 

which we ascribe to, 330 

will bless your store, 375 

with less of earth in them than, 129 

ycleped Euphrosyne, in, 264 
Heaven-born band, 58 
Heaven-kissing hill, on a, 250 
Heavenly bodies, princes are like to, 

breasts, can envy dwell in, 114 

food is very light, 123 

love, thou a, 157 

'twas, 211 
Heaven's benison or ban, 328 

chancery, which flew up to, 287 

command, at, 37 

ebon vaults, 268 

first law, order is, 291 

gate, and see through, 292 

gate, now at, 210 

gate, sings hymns at, 210 

gate sings, the lark at, 210 

hand, I argue not against, 387 

topmost height, from the, 28 

vengeance down, calling, 424 

wide pathless way, the, 268 
Heavens, and spangled, 132 

crush me, though the, 416 

fill with commerce, saw the, 59 

for power, and search the, 402 

rain enough in the sweet, 169 

see, never shalt thou the, 49 

stars that oversprinkle all the, 23 

yon blue, 148 
Heaviest cross of all, 67 

cross, ours is the, 1 
Heaviness, 177 

when they droop with, 293 
Heaving rocks at him, reply by, 340 

to and fro, kept, 36 
Heavy cost, learned at a, 117 

looks, toward school with, 239 

too, for a man, 40 

to get, 157 
Hector in the field to die, better like, 

28 • 
Hecuba to him, what 's, 307 
Hedge a king, divinity doth, 202 

linen enough on every, 226 
Hedger, a spiritual, 247 
Hedgerow marks of angels' feet, see 

in every, 460 
Heed naught else, you won't never, 
107 
take, and ponder well, 465 
Heedless, 177 

Heel, an African from head to, 266 
of a Dutch cheese, 48 

stifle down with a mailed, 413 
the despot's, is on thy shore, 255 



Heel, they tread each other's, 448 
Heels, asses lift their, 14 
at his, 75 

a troop of little children at my, 167 

of my presentment, upon the, 30 

one woe doth tread upon another 's, 

448 
set feathers to thy, 171 

struck his armed, 345 

'twill fly at his, 461 
Heifer dead and bleeding fresh, 41 
Height, bate his usual, 135 

from the Heaven 's topmost, 28 

he rose, how to occasion's, 287 

of pain, the measure of the, 293 

our honour at the, 89 

tide is at his highest, 18 
Heights, 177 

sat Freedom on the, 144 
Heir, a fountain spouting through his, 
248 

they made her, 1 1 1 

to the first, stood, 315 
Heirs of pain, sure, 59 
Held his breath, and the boldest, 364 

it fast, and, 342 
Helen, 177 

the cordial that sparkled for, 100 
Hell, 177, 178 

a fury like a woman scorned, nor, 
324 

and heretics, prate of, 217 

and rides through, 432 

as the gates of, 218 

better to reign in, 329 

but that I was in, 98 

call thou hell, 275 

come hot from, 33s 

down all the stretch of, 165 

false as, 122 

fell to shame and, 5 7 

flames, gold hath the hue of, 157 

for a man, makes heaven or, 242 

from the mouth of, 80 

half-way down the slope to, 316 

he touched at heaven and, 244 

I '11 get a swig in, 395 

is full of good meanings, 193 

is paved with, 193 

is worth ambition though in, 329 

itself breathes out, 282 

itself can make a heaven of, 263 

lead apes in, 10 

lead his apes into, 10 

make a heaven of, 169 

might sit for, 115 

of heaven, make . . . a, 263 

of waters, the, 436 

of witchcraft lies, what a, 398 

our house is, 400 

quiet to quick bosoms is a, 323 

slander meanest spawn of, 368 

summons thee to heaven or to, 205 

that riches grow in, 336 

that's there, and view the, 328 

the fear o', 184 



594 



Index 



Hell 

tne snare and scourge of, 157 

to have some fifteen minutes of, 
176 

to keep, the keys of, 369 

to shun, more than, 61 

through heaven and, 196 

'twas muttered in, 167 

war is, 432 

women worst and best, as heaven 
and, 259 
Hell-broth, 179 
Hell 's concave, tore, 46 

from heaven, as low as, 400 
Helm, nor yields to men the, 86 

pleasure at the, 470 

takes the, 102 
Helmet, 179 

of Navarre, the, 308 
Help, 179 

and ornament thereunto, to be a, 
318 

between a hindrance and a, 180 

it, I can't, 441 

since there 's no, 203 

the feeble, not enough to, 129 

what need of, 315 

what 's past, 166 

you die, no man can, 129 
Helping when we meet them, 460 
Helpless, the feeble hands and, 156 
Helps one on, that is what, 460 

the hurt that honour feels, 185 

you live, and it, 129 
Hent the stile-a, merrily, 174 
Heraldry, the boast of, 163 
Herald 's coat without sleeves, like an, 

361 
Herb, 179 
Herb-grace o' Sundays, may call it, 

344 
Herbs and other country messes, 303 

at the morning prime, 151 

green, 32 

reaping thee sweet, 78 

that scattered grow, 182 
Hercules himself do what he may, 45 

himself must yield to odds, 390 

than I to, 37 
Herd have fled from the, 31 

of such, the, 396 

winds slowly o'er the lea, 69 
Here into the, 16 
Here liter, 179 

angels may, and in the, 186 

what is love, 'tis not, 239 
Hereditary hatred, the, 130 

prooensity, almost irresistible, 102 
Heretics, prate of hell and, 217 
Heritage the sea, our, 286 
Hermit, like a, you sup, 441 

sighed till woman smiled, man the, 
450 

there, to dwell a weeping, 34 
Hermit 's fast, more grievous torment 
than a, 235 



Hero, 179, 180 

bold, John Barleycorn was a, 18 

fell, horse and. So 

from his prison, came the, 351 

millions a, 272 

must drink brandy, 34 

perish, a, 38 
Herod, 180 
Heroes, 180 

fought for, that, 416 

hail ye, 58 

kill, 123 

lawyers, priests, 218 

of old, the, 78 

we are n't no thin red, 349 
He-rogue, the great, 194 
Heroic breeds, like the old, 250 

built, 40 

soul away, so passed the strong, 377 
Hero 's deeds, ready for a, 54 
Herring, nor good red, 132 
Herrings, as pilchards are to, 190 
Herse, 180 

Herself and the woman I love, 274 
Hesitate dislike, and, 71 
Hesperus, that led the starry host, 268 
Heterodoxy is another man 's doxy, 

291 
Hew and hack, for lack of somebody 
to, 26 

down and fell the hardest-timbered 
oak, 390 

him as a carcass, not, 201 
Hiawatha, this song of, 156 
Hid in night, nature's laws lay, 281 

it from my sight, 28 

long, murder cannot be, 272 

my faults will not be, 365 

the moon is, 23 
Hidden brook, like of a, 37 

from the heart's disgrace, 108 

soul of harmony, 170 
Hide, and turn to, 409 

false face must, 122 

her faults, might, 128 

her shame, to, 136 

his love, can less, 119 

me, must for ever, 153 

myself in thee, let me, 340 

the fault, to, 260 

the sparks of nature, hard ... to, 
278 

their diminished heads, 172 

them, or in clouds, 408 

thou 'wear a lion 's, 226 

thy grief within thy breast, 234 

tiger 's heart wrapped in a woman 's, 
453 

your diminished rays, 91 
Hideous, and makes night, 282 

cries, such, 98 

more, when thou show'st, 192 
Hide^ the book of fate, 127 

them deep, he, 154 
Hidest thou, what, 354 
Hiding, discredit more in, 128 



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595 



Hidings of his council, the, 154 
High and fine, my thoughts were, 98 

and treads on, 312 

as my heart, just as, 386 

availed on, 125 

classes, meaning the, 55 

descent, preachment of your, 85 

estate, fallen from his, 121 

for common selfishness, 159 

he soared, low as, 7 

in pride, up so, 316 

on a throne of royal state, 107 

the spacious firmament on, 132 

though his titles, 65 

thy seat is up on, 270 
High-blown pride, my, 153 
Higher law, there is a, 213 

life, the beginning of a, 79 

things, to, 170 
Highest height, tide is at his, 18 

point, touched the, 122 

style of man, 5 1 

the middle tree and, 63 
Highness' dog at Kew, his, 95 
Hieh-proof melancholy, we are, 258 
Hill, and the hunter home from the, 
163 

on a heaven-kissing, 250 

single church below the, 23 

snow on field an', 152 

the dew of yon high eastward, 269 

to their haven under the, 169 

to climbing up a, 123 

to hill, bells from, 52 

to the poor-house, over the, 310 

went up a, 202 
Hills, 180 

all the trees on all the, 382 

and far away, and o'er the, 463 

and valleys, that, 23s 

of seas, 400 

of yore, on thy seven, 342 

to climb steep, 55 

with thunder riven, 13 
Hillside for a pall, the, 184 
Himmel, take a liddle prayer to, 351 
Himself, 180 

his hungering neighbour and me, 
188 

no more than from, 178 
Hind of princes peer, make me own 
this, 324 

that would be mated with the lion, 
the, 384 
Hinders needle and thread, 438 
Hindmost, the devil take the, 87 
Hindrance, 180 

Hinges of the knee, crook the preg- 
nant, 412 
Hint a fault, just, 71 

upon this, I spake, 363 
Hip, I have you on the, 72 

once upon the, 166 
Hire, taste the, 140 
His indeed, shall then be, 460 

could ne'er be, 363 



His, 'tis, 275 

Hiss, we 're obliged to, 210 

where they howl and, 436 
Hisses, 180 

she may dare, stem the, 449 
Historians, I defy, 218 
History, 180 

ever hear by tale or, 238 

mad from life 's, 244 

of the human-kind, 103 
Hit, 180 

seem a lucky, 67 

the line hard, 222 
Hive, I quickly were dissolved from 
my, 436 

with one bee in a, 184 
Hoard is little, our, 175 

of maxims, with a little, 73 
Hoarded, bartered, 157 
Hoarse with having little else to do, 

9 
Hobby-horse, 180 
Hock, which . . . the poet speaks of, 

344 
Hocus-pocus science, a sort of, 212 
Hodge-podge together, clapped, 308 
Hoe, 180 

a darned long row to, 344 
Hog, 181 
Hogs and your sheep, worse fed than 

your, 323 
Hoist with his own petar, no 
Hold, as 't were, the mirror, 278 

and light to, 157 

both thee and me, wide enough to, 
189 

enough! that first cries, 214 

fast that which is good, 320 

fast the best, and, 320 

it fast, take and, 434 

like a serpent from their, 416 

love out, stony limits cannot, 239 

mortality's strong hand, we, 270 

on with a bulldog grip, 40 

out mine iron, 48 

thee, he will, 297 

the faith and morals, 4r2 

the same rule will, 126 

the world but as the world, I, 463 

will slip, the mongrel 's, 40 

you here, I, 135 
Holding both his sides, laughter, 382 

up a beacon peerless, 290 
Holding-anchor lost, the, 231 
Holds a pretty girl 's hand, what, 383 

him with his glittering eye, 117 

its warped mirror, 278 

that anchor, 9 

the eel of science by the tail. 192 
Hole and crack, through every, 132 

each lack-lustre, eyeless, 367 

made in your best coat, 57 

might stop a, 421 

that hath but oon, 271 

trusts to one poor, 271 

where his tail came through, 87 



596 



Index 



Holiday, 181 

and lady terms, many, 401 
Holier laws, of . . . ,252 
Holiest thing alive, the, 270 
Holland, France, England, 135 
Hollands, 181 
Hollers out Gee, world '11 go right ef 

he, 461 
Hollow, all was false and, 122 

down deep in a, 446 

of thine ear, pierced the fearful, 283 
Holly, 181 

branch shone, the, 265 

round the Christmas hearth, 52 

where English oak and, 304 
Holy, 181 

Book by which we live and die, 30 

bread, as the touch of, 205 

Church incorporate two in one, 53 

door, stand within that, 115 

fields over whose acres, 67 

ground, ay, call it, 464 

ground, brave lodgings for one in, 
229 

he died to make men, 225 

men at their death, 80 

place, is a good, a, 52 

sae pious and sae, 304 

witness, an evil soul producing, 11 

writ, strong as proofs of, 195 
Holy-day, on a sunshine, 71 
Holy-days or so, unless on, 446 
Holy Supper, 181 

is spread within, the, 194 
Homage, do her, 212 
Home, 182 

a day's march nearer, 278 

a wain, princes are come, 112 

all in a blessed, 334 

and comes safe, 66 

and feels herself at, 330 

and that sweet time, youth and, 23 

are crossways, things at, 292 

art gone, 103 

bravely onward to your, 232 

confined from, 186 

creep, and take your place, 290 

for the Old Kentucky, 200 

from sea, my ships are corning, 360 

from the hill, and the hunter, 163 

full numbers, brings, 425 

God, who is our, 25 

had he a, 182 

he stays to his, 356 

his country's flag is at, 133 

his footsteps he hath turned, 65 

I 'm going, 461 

in the Soudan, Fuzzy-Wuzzy at 
your, 147 

is the sailor home from sea, 163 

is still here, thy, 31 

itself, a vision of, 133 

makes her loved at, 352 

merriest when they are from, 261 

no news so bad abroad as this at, 
281 



Home 

nor wax nor honey can bring, 436 

of an Englishman, the island, 113 

of the brave, 17 

of the pilgrims, the, n 1 

on the rolling deep, a, 288 

our, we '11 find far out on the sea, 354 

our, whare sits our sulky, sullen 
dame, 465 

our peace at, and safety abroad, 299 

our souls at, 108 

out of house and, 107 _ 

sense like charity begins at, 356 

that live at, 355 

the ocean 's my, 4 

the world of waters is our, 436 

there 's nobody at, 447 

they brought her warrior dead, 76 

to feed were best at, 129 

to me, none have yet come, 360 

to me, that is, 8 

to men 's business and bosoms, 40 

turns again, 18 

warm at, 189 

welcome as we draw near, 438 

when cats run, 45 

wherever the stars and stripes, 8 

when the kye comes, 457 

women are skeery unless they have 
a, 4SS 

when you knock it never is at, 447 
Home-keeping youth have ever, 182 
Homeless, 182 
Homely, 182 

savoury, will make what 's, 388 
Homer, 183 

and Virgil quotes, 30 
Homes, at their native, 141 

homeless near a thousand, 182 
Homeward plods his weary way, 69 
Homily, I never composed a better, 

397 
Honest, 183 

and a perfect man, an, 127 

dollar, short-weight dollar is not an, 
96 

doubt, more faith in, 97 

fame, grant an, 124 

hand a whip, and put in very, 439 

happy and laudable, most, 203 

heart, bear it with an, 150 

honnable and fair, all thet 's, in 

knaves, whip me such, 205 

man may take a knave 's advice, 205 

man sent to lie abroad for his 
country, 7 

man's revenge, patience is the, 335 

on mine honour, he 's, 438 

poor but, 310 

though he be merry, . . . he's, 261 

though it be, 281 

too, wives may be merry and yet, 
448 
Honester than I, no, 183 
Honesty, 183 

I am armed so strong in, 404 



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597 



Honesty 

is, what a fool, 415 

is his, and, 128 

my truth and, 417 

party, is party duty, 297 

puts it to utterance, 379 

the more is for your, 401 

wins not more than, 64 
Honey, 184 

age has no, 4 

can bring home, nor wax nor, 436 

it disdained, if falsehood's, 411 

rob the bee of her, 133 

the sweeter the, 240 

wears a sting, 403 

with trade wax, mingling poetic, 
308 
Honey-fee of parting, the, 296 
Honorius long did dwell, in yon cave, 

177 
Honour, 184, 185 

all is lost save, 231 

aspireth to it, 77 

at the height, our, 89 

but an empty bubble, 431 

civil right, law an' order, 212 

clear, and in, 38s 

comes, a pilgrim grey, there, 34 

deeds of glory, of, 409 

depths and shoals of, 140 

doth forget men 's names, new- 
made, 275 

doubt, more faith in, 97 

for his valour, 7 

he 's honest on mine, 438 

him, I, 7 

is a private station, post of, 424 

jealous in, 373 

lost, for, 299 

love, and obey, 45 

love, obedience, troops of friends, 
223 

men who have, 259 

our fortunes and our sacred, 307 

than deep wounds before, hurts, 36 

the ancient Roman, 145 

thee, how I do, 72 

those who have reflected, 11 1 

to direct in chief, more, 92 

what are you to love, 237 

we call you, to, 286 

wisdom and, 136 
Honourable, esteemed more, 216 

and fair, all thet 's honest, 1 1 1 

and his quarrel. 45 

thing to thrive by dirty ways, 92 
Honoured by strangers, 139 

in the breach, more, 70 

once, how. 334 

praised, wept and. 385 

well are charms to sell, 47 
Honouring thee, not so much, 99 
Honour's at the stake, 164 

in the right, your, 66 

lodged, in the place where, 36 

voice provoke, can, 421 



Honours, 185 

bears his blushing, 164 

in more substantial, 148 

space of our large, 36 
Hood, drink with him that wears a, 6 

mine eyes, 372 
Hooded eyes, shafts from, 23 
Hoof of the law, the head and the, 287 

the iron on the, 187 
Hook, bait the, 16 

he baited, his, 439 

with saints dost bait thy, 347 
Hookas, divine in, 408 
Hoops of steel, with, 146 

shall have ten, 130 
Hooted, the rabblement, 43 
Hooting at Coriolanus' exile, 43 
Hop, the frogs went, 372 
Hope, 185, 186 

again, never to, 122 

a great man 's memory may outlive, 
258 

and joy, of, 414 

and longing unexpressed, fear and, 
234 

and loyal, 219 

and pray for all, 312 

and purpose high, with, 321 

and the fear, the, 109 

as giving it a, 99 

. . . bade the world farewell, 142 

be dim, though, 390 

been smitten, hath, 391 

believe, promise, 124 

break it to our, 318 

constancy in wind, 67 

fondly do we, 199 

for mercy, how shalt thou, 260 

for the garrison hung, 113 

hang themselves in, 254 

haply lies his petty, 73 

I neither fear nor, 369 

is built on reeds, whose, 330 

is fled, lest when our latest, 465 

is, my own, 159 

life is the rose's, 219 

links her to the future, 258 

may bloom, new, 236 

may live without, 63 

measure of immortal, 115 

my hope, thy, 104 

noble hopes are part of, 284 

nor bate a jot of heart or, 387 

nor, nor joy, 367 

not that wind or wave, 149 

on, hope ever, 38 

one half of woman's life is, 454 

points before, 48 

soured on me, all, 313 

tender leaves of, 164 

texts of despair or, 24 

the old, is hardest to be lost, 290 

to find, perfection none must, 128 

to merit heaven, 177 

two cardinal virtues, faith and, 315 

was rife, still the shadowy, 230 



598 



Index 



Hope 

withering fled, 142 
Hopeless love, crossed in, 66 
Hopes are part of hope, noble, 284 

belied, fears our, 105 

decay, and the dearest, 125 

depended, late on, 464 

for half thy fears, my, 409 

in, that Saint Nicholas, 51 

of all men, the, 193 

of my age, 5 
. that grieves not and that never, 388 

the strivings after better, 88 

were dupes, if, 391 
Horizontal line, 389 
Horn, a blast of that dread, 39 

blest south wind that toots his, 132 

ere thrice yon moon had filled her, 
12 

Triton blow his wreathed, 293 
Hornet, 186 
Horns, bulls aim their, 14 

know him by his, 88 

o' the moon, 43 
Horologe, he '11 watch the, 100 
Horrible shadow, hence, 358 
Horror, 186 

and doubt distract, 178 
Horrors of this, 'mid, 9 
Horse, 186, 187 

a brewer's, 53 

a little dearer than his, 297 

and hero fell, 80 

an two men ride of a, 337 

as tedious as is a tired, 399 

call me, 218 

dog or, 38 

in the stable, a good, 303 

kick that scarce would move a, 201 

lad, than hey for boot and, 469 

like a full-hot, 9 

of Parnassus, wine 's the true, 445 

rider and, 40 

that which is now a, 56 

the grey mare is the better, 253 

the head, gave his able, 345 

the ways of a man with a, 187 

to death, run their, 22 

to ride, a gallant, 57 

when the grey mare 's the better, 
2 53 

went lame, my, 57 
Horse - laugh through the pews, 

spread a, 212 
Horsemanship, 187 
Horses, 187 

between two, 213 

fear to tread, wheels rush in where, 
439 

not best to swap, 394 

our passions are the, 56 

women and, 164 
Horse-sense, plain, in poetry-writin', 

3°9 
Hose, his youthful, 294 

doublet and, 68 



Hose, should be ungartered, your. 239 

when he goes in his doublet and, 251 
Hospitable, 187 
Hospitality, and Scotch, 352 
Host, at the head of the, 63 

death proclaimed through our, 156 

like a fashionable, 167 

of prides, a, 316 

on the morrow, that, 216 

that I know, many an old, 290 

that led the starry, 268 

the cry of that spectral, 151 

with their banners that, 216 
Hostages to fortune, hath given, 442 
Hosts, Lord God of, 139 
Hot, 187 

and copper sky, 63 

and soon, 50 

as a basted turkey, I was, 286 

for your foe so, T36 

right hand grows raging, 169 

temper leaps o'er a cold decree, 33 

when the iron is, 390 
Hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, 32 
Hottentet's great toe, to bleach a, 266 
Hottest furnace, from the, 41 
Hound has part, love in which my, 187 
Hounds, as a carcass fit for, 201 
Hour, 187 

a canny, at e'en, 44 

ago, an. a star was falling, 384 

await alike the inevitable, 163 

before the worshipped sun, an, 393 

everv, brings forth some gasping 
truth, 416 

foretold, truly that, 296 

for only one short, 430 

grieve for an, 448 

groaning every, 56 

his brute question in that, 147 

if we do but watch the, 467 

I have had my. 221 

learn by proof in some wild, 465 

mark him every, 154 

may lay it in the dust, an, 385 

never sold the truth to serve the, 
418 

of danger, 39 

of rest, wakens at this, 23 

of strut and rave, our little, 411 

one self -approving, 355 

or place, whatso'er the, 274 

o' th' day, tell what, 6 

ten, grief makes one, 165 

that struts and frets his, 411 

the wonder of an, 352 

thoughts of the last bitter, 362 

till Hymen brought his love-de- 
lighted, 450 

to hour, from, 224 

toil for triumphs of an, 104 

went by me, never an, 286 

when all seemeth securest, at an, 
435 

whenever you welcome the, 125 

within this, 413 



Index 



599 



Hour's quiet, to have one, 229 

talk, I never spent an, 196 
Hours are few to wait, the, 97 

from the night, steal a few, 74 

I never drink but at my, 100 

keeping company with the, 112 

let other, 102 

of ease, in our, 453 

of ease, to, 443 

of life, the wasted, 434 

the sweetest, 165 

to chase the glowing, 71 

unheeded flew the, 406 
House, 187 

all through the, 51 

a man 's, is his castle, 44 

and home, out of, 107 

and land, yet all her, 265 

and shook the, 388 

a second marriage in my, 426 

at the door of her, 296 

below, who broke and robbed a, 306 

be troubled with a rat, if my, 325 

chimney in my father's, 36 

from the rear of Philip 's, 25 
mother 's, 
our. 400 

moat defensive to a, 112 

nearer my father 's, 278 

of death, secret, 79 

of Hanover, the illustrious, 170 

of prayer, erects a, 87 

of tears, Venus smiles not in a. 424 

one feast, one, 170 

or land, when he that selleth, 356 

search a planet 's, 306 

the prop that doth sustain my, 223 

there 's nae luck about the, 244 

there 's little pleasure in the, 244 

you take my, 223 

where I was born, the, 330 

with fear, peace wun't keep, 299 

worse than a smoky, 399 
Housed, worse, than your hacks and 

your pointers, 323 
Household, for herself or her, 451 

the terror of the, 416 

words, familiar in his mouth as, 275 
Housekeeping, when you break up, 

366 
Houses, a plague o' both your, 306 

. . . last till doomsday 164 

when he leaves our, 425 
Housewife, 188 

ply her evening care, 175 
How not to do it, 54 
Howards, blood of all the, 113 
Howitzer planted, my brazen, 314 
Howl and hiss, where they, 436 

from Oonalaska 's shore, the wolf's 
long, 449 

this horrible stave, they, 379 
Howled and roared and, 190 

in mine ears, 98 

thus, a dog that should have, 95 
Howling, to his gods, 73 



Howling, when thou liest, 426 
Howls at the gate, my dog, 95 

while Ralph to Cynthia, 282 
Hub, 188 

Huddled thar, seen them, 404 
Hudibras gave him a twitch, 36 
Hue, in my cheek 's pale, 458 

of hell-flames, gold hath the, 157 

of resolution, the native, 61 

or add another, 152 

the distance takes a lovelier, 457 
Hug it in mine arms, 90 

me no more, you'll, 286 
Huge legs, walk under his, 58 
Hugged by the old, 157 

the offender. 289 
Hugh's soul, sing a dirge for St., 32 
Hum. 188 

and the multitude's, 136 

thus poor human nature, 382 
Human, 18S 

body, the, is a furnace, 28 

breast, eternal in the. 186 

creatures' lives, but, 226 

dust, every pinch of, 115 

eyes, lies deeply buried from, 186 

face divine. 118 

feelings, prove that you have, 58 

frame, which fasten on the, 425 

gentleman, but for a mere, 210 

heart in the, 114 

heart is human, every. 156 

hearts, the touch of God in, 305 

ideal, the, 190 

in pain most, 234 

justice, by merely, 155 

kindness, the milk of, 262 

natur', clear grit an', 249 

nature, the highest, is divine, 338 

nature hum, how couldst thou thus 
poor, 38 

offspring, true source of, 437 

owl, he is the, 70 

race, forget the, 85 

race, portion of the, 103 

sorrow and smart, 116 

soul take wing, to see the, 376 

story, in all, 104 

tales, moral of all, 18 

thoughts, that covers all, 369 

ties, at sight of, 233 

to err is, 140 
Humanity, 188 

every sin of, 172 
Human-kind, history of the, 103 
Humanly, gently and, 454 
Humble and a contrite heart, an, 139 

be it ever so, 182 

the low and the, 61 
Humbled, all, kiss the rod, 341 
Humbleness, whispering, 35 
Humbly, cross her hands, 169 
Humidity, 188 
Humility, 188 

is pride that apes, 316 

what is his, 197 



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Index 



Humming, the city 's rout and noise 

and, 264 
Humour, lightens my, 196 

most, yet has her, 400 

say it is my, 103 

wooed, was ever woman in this, 454 
Humours, nurses dangerous, 431 

of the land, 141 
Humourous as winter, as, 161 
Hump, and without an absolute, 255 

is Obey, and the haunch and the, 
287 
Hums a stave, now he, 383 

bees and such like, 151 
Hundred, 188 

coats-of-arms, is worth a, 246 

fights, he that gained a, 167 

pounds a year, I 've a, 61 

towers, clashed and hammered from 
a, 284 

years are gone, when a, 286 

years of life, worth a, 39 

years to a day, 46 

years, ye make in a, 152 

will subscribe for soap, 38 
Hundredth Psalm, the, 10 
Hung a shadow and a fear, 69 

it out in the rain, he only, 361 
Hunger and dirt, in poverty, 361 

in his heart, a lifelong, 174 

the food that slakes, 369 
Hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
92 

jurymen, discontented or, 92 

people, slowly comes a, 301 

savage, an ti-every things, lean, 10 

where most she satisfies, 5 
Hunt each other, why then will you, 

, , 433 

folks 's corns out, new ones, 161 

in fields, better to, 172 
Hunter home from the hill, and the, 

163 
Hunting him, was killed with, 226 

of that day, the, 419 
Hunts for flowers, he who, 135 
Huntsman his pack, as a, 145 
Hurl their lances, 350 
Hurled, swift to be, 244 
Hurls back an epithet as hard, 114 
Hurlyburly's done, when the, 257 
Hurrah for the next that dies, 91 
Hurrahs, 188 
Hurricane, 188 
Hurry along, as I. 247 

and shock, will occur in a. 348 
Hurrying feet, stays our, 79 
Hurt, 189 

a fly, nor, 271 

if . . , you were, 40 

that honour feels, helps the, 185 

the proper power to, 14 

with the same weapons, 197 

would do no, 186 
Hurts and is desired, 79 

honour than deep wounds before, 36 



Hurts the poor creature, 135 
Husband, 189 

a woman oweth to her, 454 

calls the name of her, 99 

of this gifted well, if the, 348 

out of, shape a, 255 

stays, safest and seemliest by her.. 

443 
the heart of her, 451 
then, heaven help the, 348 

Husbandry, the edge of, 31 

Husband 's heart, level in her, 454 

Husbands, 190 

when, or when lapdogs, 362 

Hush of our dread high-altars, 1 
and then a groan, a, 76 
that followed the prayer, S5 
thee my baby, thy sire was a 

knight, 16 
thee my baby, the time soon will 
come, 390 

Hushed and smooth, till it is, 369 
as the foot of night, 282 
the minster bell, they've, 264 

Hut. and that dear, 182 
love in a, 235 

Huzzas, of stupid starers and of loud, 
3SS 

Hydras, and chimaeras dire, 161 

Hymen brought his love-delighted 
hour, till, 450 

Hymn, chants a doleful, 273 
of the conquered, 61 

Hymns, chanting faint, 56 
of gratitude and love, 173 
sings, at heaven's gate, 210 

Hyperion's curls, 250 

Hypocrisy, 190 

can spin, in spite of alii, 393 

Hypocrite, one friend not quite an, 
462 

Hyrcan tiger, the, 72 



I am there, and, 207 

am, wheresoe'er, 240 

and you wonder, 75 

it is not, 74 

to Hercules, than, 37 

where you once utter the, 319 

Xerxes must die and so must, 467 
Iago, the pity of it, 30s 
Ice, 190 

as chaste as, 42 

her heart is . . . not of, 328 

in June, 67 

region of thick-ribbed, 90 

thick-ribbed, not to, 347 

to smooth the, 152 
Ice-ribbed pinions, on mine. 284 
Icicles, 190 
Icily regular, 128 

Icy air of night, how they tinkle in the, 
23 

hand on kings, death lays his, 127 



Index 



6oi 



Idea, depolarize every fixed religious, 
85 

how to shoot, to teach the young, 
398 
Ide^l, 190 

all the nonsense of their stone, 385 
Ide lity, 190 
Ideas, a man of nasty, 281 

o' wut 's right, good old, 431 
Ides, 190 

Idiot, a tale told by an, 411 
Idiots only may be cozened twice, 205 
Idle, 190 

as a painted ship, as, 359 

brain, children of an, 99 

tears, I know not what they mean, 
399 
Idleness, in strenuous, 377 
Idler, 90 

Idolatry, the god of my, 394 
Idols, home itself and all its, 133 
If, avoid that too with an, 218 

much virtue in, 218 
Ignoble strife, madding crowd 's, 68 

use, soiled with all, 150 
Ignominy sleep with thee, thy, 114 
Ignorance, 190 

be indeed a bliss, if, 370 

equals this, what, 370 

folly and, 252 

it was a childish, 331 
Ignorant, eyes of the, 2 

for current, took 'em, 458 

most, of what he 's most assured, 251 
Ignorantly read, the bookful block- 
head, 30 
III, 191 

a-brewing toward my rest, 98 

a part, to play so, 116 

blows the wind that profits nobody, 
444 

bought dear by knowing, 414 

calls me well or, 160 

cannot prevail against mine, 429 

Captive Good attending Captain, 

417 A 

come good or, 150 

cook that cannot lick, 62 

crowning good repressing, 385 

deeds, means to do, 83 

done, makes deeds, 83 

extreme in love or hate, in good or, 

449 
fare the hands that heaved, 29 
fares the land, 300 
habits gather, 167 
he thinks no, 239 
I don't at all take it, 397 
luck stirring, no, 244 
name of augurs, got the, 31 
only one thing sleep . . . hath, 369 
or good or, 2 
savour, gives it an, 52 
the final goal of, 160 
the weights of good and, 389 
together, good and, 222 



III 

to live with, the grey mare is, 253 

will, in shrill, 44 

winde turnes none to good, an, 444 

wind which blows no man to good, 
not the, 444 
Ill-favoured faults, vile, 128 

thing, but mine own, 263 
Illinois, I was wirh Grant in, 152 
Illness, during temporary, 109 

is over at last, the lingering, 229 

is the real vampyrism, long, 423 
Ills, 191 

all, that strength and courage, 189 

a prey, to hastening, 300 

have not been done by a woman, 
what mighty, 452 

of mortality, 'gainst the, 100 

we have, those, 79 
Ill-starred, stone or brick, 114 
Ill-tempered, when I spoke that I was, 

382 
Illumed the eastern skies, 105 
Ill-used, the hardest knife, 206 
Image, a reasonable creature, God 's 
3° 

of good Queen Bess, 157 

of his Maker, 7 

of our mind, the, 447 
Images, and sad, 362 
Imagination, 191 

bodies forth, as, 308 

fondly stoops, 295 

for his facts, upon his, 291 

how abhorred in my, 468 

trace, why may not, 421 
Imagine how the bird was dead, 41 
Imagining some fear, 128 
Immaculate, his thoughts, 29 
Immeasurable reality, 190 
Immodest words admit of no defence. 

83 
Immortal, 191 

as itself, a thing, 223 

as its sire, the soul, 376 

a soul, 377 

dead, of those, 50 

feelings, I had, 230 

hope, measure of, 115 

longings in me, I have, 230 

of the dead, 115 

part of myself, lost the, 332 

reign, scenes where love and bliss, 27 

trust, take them O Father in, 13 
Immortality, 191 

the shade of, 124 

touch it again with, 467 
Imogene, his consort, the Fair, 379 

while the spectre addressed, 463 
Impaired, nothing, but all disordered, 

380 
Impeach of valour, ten to one is no, 

423 
Impeachment, 191 
Impediments, for they are, 442 

unto my speech, the moist, 399 



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Index 



Impelled them to the separation, the 
causes which, 356 

Imperfections on my head, all my, 370 

Impious in a good man to be sad, 346 
men bear sway, and, 424 

Implacable in hate, 385 

Implement has had, no little part 
that, 467 

Imponderables move the world, the, 
237 

Importance twice, debating every- 
thing of, 82 

Important department, the most, 54 

Importunate, rashly, 420 

Importune, too proud to, 141 

Imposing, less, in the eyes of some, 

Impossible, it was equally, 54 

she, that not, 358 

that I should live, it is, 82 
Impostor heap, let no, 355 
Impostors, a race of mere, 385 
Impotent and loud, 9 

conclusion, most lame and, 60 
Impression, as sharp an, 264 

of St. Peter's keys in wax, the, 347 

such terrible, 98 
Imprisoned in the viewless winds, 90 
Improve, 191 

by travel, some minds, 276 
Improves our parts, 234 
Impulse, like the first fierce, 66 

still with strong, 245 

to a wordless prayer, 88 
Impute my fall to sin, and then, 365 
Inanimate e'er grieves, if aught, 166 
Incarnadine, the multitudinous seas, 

169 
Incense soars, vainly his, 330 
Incense-breathing morn, breezy call 

of, 269 
Incensed, he's flint, 161 

me, have so, 328 

or crushed, most fragrant when 
they are, 427 
Inch a king, aye, every, 202 

of rigging, without an, 73 

thick, let her paint, 468 
Incidents well linked, and, 396 
Inclination, a treacherous, 142 
Inclined, the tree 's, 107 

to, compound for sins they are, 
366 

to embrace me she, 98 
Inclines our eyelids, 370 

us more to laugh than scold, 212 
Income, 192 

Incomparable man, a most, 160 
Incomplete, our lives are, 79 
Incompleteness, flowed around our, 

154 
Inconstant, cruel and, 83 

than the wind, more, 444 
Incorporate two in one, 53 
Incorporated, seem at once to lose 
their nature, 413 



Increase of appetite had grown, 11 

tailors, and breed ballad-makers, 
279 
Increased with years, 224 
Increases every day, danger of detec- 
tion, 82 
Incurred the worst, who with best 

meaning have, 464 
Incurs no blame, a necessary act, 279 
Ind, of Ormus and of, 107 
Indebted, 192 
Independence, 192 

make up the Declaration of, 149 
Index-learning, 192 
Indian, lo, the poor, 176 
Indians fell, for which unpitied, 157 
India-rubber apron-strings, 8 
India's morning-bugle, 112 
Indifferent honest, myself, 183 
Indirection, by any, 267 
Indispensable, my family think it, 

382 
Indistinct, makes it, 56 
Individual, nor should the, 340 
Indulge, can threaten or, 377 
Indulgence, she first his weak, 452 
Indus to the pole, from. 216 
Industry, the hammer of, 410 
Inebriate, cheer but not, 116 
Inestimable stones, 102 
Inevitable hour, await alike the, 163 
Infamies, make right the imme- 
morial, 467 
Infamous, men the most, 123 
Infancy, begins man's general, 318 

knew, which my, 49 
Infant, 192 

Infant's idle laughter, an, 119 
Infected spy, seems infected that th', 

195 
Infection, against, 112 
Inferred to us, 'tis, 101 
Infest the day, cares that, 44 

the grave, if dreams, 98 
Infidels adore, and, 197 
Infinite, for both are, 239 

ideality, 190 

in me, I feel the, 230 

in power, 154 

rate, purchased at an, 117 
Infinitely, promise you, 318 
Infinity, 192 
Infirm of purpose, 7o 
Infirmities, should bear his friend 's. 

145 
Infirmity, the last, of noble mind, 123 
Inflamed my soul, once. 20 
Inflammation of the lungs, with an, 

19S 
Inflict they feel, what they, 455 
Inflicted on a beast, 390 
Influence, all, all fate, 127 
Information, know where we can find, 

206 
Infraction of the rules of courtesy, 
without an, 455 



Index 



603 



Infringe the rights of others, so long 

as he does not, 338 
Infuse themselves, that souls of ani- 
mals, 378 
Inglorious Milton, some mute, 168 
Ingots bows, whose back with, 336 
Ingratitude, 192 

unkind as man 's, 444 
Ingratitudes, a great-sized monster of, 

407 
Inhabit this great earth, all that, 201 
Inhabitants o' the earth, look not like 

the, 448 
Inherit, all which it, 428 
Inhuman, ev'ythin' thet 's done, 208 
Inhumanity, 192 
Iniquity, the hire of their, 140 
Injure you, I ne'er could, 122 
Injured, forgiveness to the, 140 
Injures all on 'em the same, 208 
Injury, 192 

to revenge an, 335 
Injustice, and jealousy, 450 

conscience corrupted with, 12 
Ink, 192 

and paper, pay for goose-quill, 317 

be made of gall, though, 466 

dipped me in, 466 

gall enough in thy, 148 

good at pen and, 92 

he hath not drunk, 30 

were tempered with love 's sighs, 
308 
Inky cloak, good mother, 448 
Inmate, full of mirth, little, 175 
Inn, 192, 193 

pushes us on to the windowless, 406 

return and sleep within mine, 413 

the world 's an, 7 7 
Innocence my liberty, and, 318 

oh, mirth and, 264 
Innocent as gay, 20 

on earth, crime deemed, 66 
Innocents, 193 

good and easy, 103 
Inn's worst room, in the worst, 464 
Insane, delight in prose, 309 
Insatiate archer, could not one suffice, 

12 
Inscription, and from the, 163 

is the, 373 

let there be no, 114 
Inscriptions on our hearts, 175 
Insect, while man, vain, 176 
Insensible, 'tis, 185 
Inseparable, one and, 218 
Inside of a church, 53 

of your purse, show the, 158 
Insignificant, perhaps, 352 
Insipid, 193 

things, 204 
Insipidity, to whose glorious, 397 
Insolence of office, the, 323 
Inspection, on a very slight, 320 
Inspirations, have good, 80 
Inspires my wit, still, 20 



Inspires thee, no German song, 151 
Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn, 19 
Instances, wise saws and modern, 199 

the wilderness of single, 214 
Instant, show the whole wealth of thy 

wit in an, 447 
Instinct, hath by, 394 
Instils the stirring memory, 72 
Institute and digest of anarchy, a sort 

of, 338 
Instituted among men, governments 

are, 161 
Institution, such as are in the, 253 
Instructed in his youth, how he was, 

416 
Instruction, 193 

but I will better the, 197 
Instructions, follows his own, 94 
Instructs me, as my understanding, 
T 379 
Instrument, 193 

you will, call me what, 305 
Instruments, that God makes, 389 

to plague us, make, 425 
Insult, threatened her with, 50 

to God, one more, 467 
Insulted, by fools, 320 
Integrity to heaven, my robe and my, 

34° 
Intellect, is not replenished, 30 

or will, for, 220 

the atmosphere of, 387 
Intellectual being, this, 90 
Intended, as if religion were, 329 
Intends deceit, that first, 82 
Intensity we love with, think with 

the, 402 
Intent and purpose of the law, 213 

at least, to all, 340 

of bearing, 13 

on hospitable thoughts, 187 

with knowledge or, 77 
Intentions, 193 

as much to all, 75 
Intercourse with foreign nations, in 
her, 65 

speed the soft, 216 
Interest, 193 

does not put, 208 
Interested him "no more, 350 
Interim be but a se'nnight, the, 407 
Interjections, verbs, pronouns, 389 
Interpose, those who in quarrels, 323 
Interpret law, office is to, 198 
Interpreter, God is his own, 155 
Interred with their bones, 116 
Interrogation, with the note of, 363 
Intersected by a narrow frith, no 
Intervals upon the ear, falling at, 52 
Intestine shock and furious close, 

Intoxicate the brain, shallow 

draughts, 215 
Intoxication, 193 

Intrudes, society where none, 457 
Intuition, become a passionate, 121 



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Index 



Invalid, I didn't know truth was such 

an, 416 
Invented for our sins, surely were, 304 

sleep, him that, 369 
Invention, if necessity be the mother 
of, 279 

of the enemy, a weak, no 

surest prompter of, 279 

the brightest heaven of, 272 
Inventress of the vocal frame, 45 
Inverted bowl they call the sky, that, 

368 
Invisible as a nose on a man 's face, 
285 

perfume, a strange, 302 

soap, washing his hands with, 372 

the choir, 50 

to thee, 381 
Invitation, much more, 108 
Invite my soul, I loafe and, 229 

the cushion and soft dean, 178 
Invites you by his looks to come, his 

wit, 447 
Ire, 193 
Ireland, 194 

Ireland's isle, not a mile in, 372 
Iris, a livelier, 241 

Irish lads, no wonder that those, 440 
Irishman, 194 
Iron, 194 

bells, 410 

best blood that hath most, 27 

creeds, and framed their, 155 

for things like these, lasts like, 441 

gate, no, 31 

grasp, from the strong, 127 

hold out mine, 48 

is hot, strike when the, 390 

I barred my gates with, 284 

nothing but to rust, 299 

on the hoof, that holds the, 187 

rang hard crab-tree and old, 405 

the man that meddles with cold, 
302 

thread, stretch forth your, 152 

tongue, the midnight bell with his, 
22 

tongue of midnight, the, 262 
Iron-bound bucket, 39 
Iron-jointed, supple-sinewed, 350 
Irrepressible conflict, an, 60 
Iscariot, 194 
Is, it, but hadn't ought to be, 346 

time, 406 
Iser rolling rapidly, the flow of, 225 
Island, 194 

home of an Englishman, 113 

of England breeds, that, in 
Islands lift their fronded palms in 
. , air, 43 
Isle, 194 

of beauty, 1 

this sceptred, 112 

so little, never was, 113 
Isles, the Niobe of, 283 
Israfel, or flashed with, 244 



Issue, I '11 put it to the, 187 
Issues mean, and what its, 390 
Isthmus, this narrow, 222 
Italy and England, Greece, 309 

draws breath in, 145 
Itch, what gives or cures the, 306 
Itching palm, much condemned to 

have an, 294 
Itself and friend-, 31 

not of, 100 
Ivy, 195 

o'ergrown, their creeds are with, 446 
Ivy-mantled tower, from yonder, 292 



Jack, an end of honest, 168 

for the life of poor, 48 
Jack-knife driven, by his genius and 

his, 467 
Jack-knives, carved it or shut up our, 

Jacob, I do not like to see thy nose, 
3°4 

what is dirt, 92 
Jade, 195 

on a journey, an arrant, 303 

the panting sides of his poor, 345 
Jail, the world miscalls a, 318 
James, King, used to call for his old 

shoes, 146 
James 's, King, men shall understand, 

63 
Jamie lo'ed me weel, young, 68 
January, snowhid in, 323 
Jar, united, 376 
Jarring sects unite, principles your, 

162 
Jars were made to drain, 445 
Jaundice and creep into the, 264 
Jaundiced, 195 

Jaunt must be put off to-morrow, 324 
Jaw, 195 
Jaws of death, out of the, 80 

of death, came through the, 80 

this hungry war opens his vasty, 
432 
Jays, 19s 

Jealous confirmation strong, are to the, 
*95 

doubt spout out, 115 

for they are jealous, 195 
Jealousies, and his pettier, 67 

and pride, local, no 
Jealousy, 195 

injustice, and, 450 

love ... is full of, 240 
Jean, and farewell my, 229 
Jehovah has triumphed, 405 

Jove, or Lord, 127 
Jelly, like a bowl full of, 24 
Jenny kissed me, 204 
Jerusalem, all men that dwelt in, 193 

God beloved in old, 450 
Jesses were my dear heart-strings, 168 



Index 



605 



Jest, 195. 196 

a fellow of infinite, 468 

and riddle of the world, the glory, 
462 

every speech a, 147 

life is a, 219 

man's life is but a, 219 

or for a, 3 7 7 

pass your proper, 67 

unseen, inscrutable, invisible, 285 
Jester, a fool and, 137 
Jesters weep behind the mask, 165 
Jests at scars that never felt a wound, 
he, 351 

is indebted to his memory for his, 
291 

with his merry, 196 
Jesus, 196 

Christ our Saviour was born, 51 

sake, for, 29 

that gentilman, 150 
Jesus' word, as Mary rose at, 358 
Jew, 197 
Jewel, 197 

lies, this, 182 

of their souls, is the immediate, 275 

to barter away that precious, 42 

unless experience be a, 117 

wears a precious, 3 
Jewels, 197 

of the mine, bright, 464 

unvalued, 102 
Jewish gaberdine, my, 147 
Jews, 197 

_ to Christians, in converting, 310 
Jilt, the, but I can live, 53 
Jim, a keerless man in his talk was, 135 
Jingle, clear the way. 23 
Jingling and the tinkling of the bells, 
408 

of the guineas, helps the hurt, 185 
Jo, John, John Anderson, my, 311 

poor, he had no friends, 145 
Job, as poor as, 310 
Jocund one, were a, 269 
Joe, hard-hearted is, 413 

when you were Bill and I was, 230 
Jog on, the footpath way, 174 
Jogging whiles your boots, 96 
John Anderson my jo, John, 311 

Barleycorn, 18, 19 

Doe. some draw pleas for, 146 

the Baptist, a kind of maddened, 
114 

print it, some said, 317 

P. Robinson he sez the world '11 go 
right, 461 

P. Robinson he sez they didn't 
know everythin', n 
Johnny, 197 
Join, thy summons comes to, 227 

in your revels, 116 

ourselves to no party, we, 420 
Joined Greeks, when Greeks, 165 

in the plan, 353 

the other two, she, 309 



Joint, the time is out of, 407 

or limb, with, 381 
Joints, his square- turned, 46 
Joke, 197 

had he, for many a, 93 
Jokes, at all his, 93 
Jollity, jest and youthful, 196 

tipsy dance and, 129 
Jolly, 197, 198 

place, said he, 69 
Josias, young Obadias, David, 305 
Jot of former love, one, 296 

of heart or hope, nor bate a, 387 
Journey, an arrant jade on a, 303 

in my head, 21 

is done, the, 78 

of life, the toilsome, 220 

thy heavy riches but a, 336 

ye make, the, 152 
Journeyed fifty miles, he had, 106 
Journey's end, death the, 77 
Journeys, 198 
Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury, 302 

himself, the front of, 250 

laughs, at lovers' perjuries, 302 

or Lord, Jehovah, 127 

thrown by angry, 122 
Jove's dread clamours, 125 

'twas, 330 
Joy, 198 

and feast, welcome, 129 

and grief, love is, 234 

and grief, two extremes of passion, 
297 

and sorrow learn, love and, 48 

and temperance and repose, 94 

and the senses for ever in, 229 

approbation strikes the string of, 12 

base envy withers at another's, 114 

be unconfined, let, 71 

but now 'tis little, 331 

eternal, and everlasting love, 452 

for ever, thing of beauty is a, 20 

for his fortune, 7 

from town to town, fling the, 23 

from which he drank in, 107 

in Eden 's rosy bower, dwelt no, 450 

its deep songs of, 209 

my songs were full of, 148 

nor hope nor, 367 

of hope and, 414 

of the whole table, 172 

of youthful sports, my, 288 

or moan, of, 24 

prophetic, runs a thrill of, 143 

renews the life of, 43 s 

that tells the, 275 

therein I find, such perfect, 262 

they bring me sorrow touched with, 
47° 

through, and through torment, 236 

to his mighty heart, 13 

was duty and love was law, 214 

which warriors feel, the stern, 433 

variety alone, 423 
Joyful in my praise, 104 



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Joyous meeting, here's our next, 257 
Joys, 198 

drinking, 16 

I have possessed, the, 221 

its, and fears, 404 

knows he the titillating, 285 

of his banquet, the, 153 

that bless thee, all the, 331 

their homely, 310 

three parts pain, be our, 328 

must flow, 182 
Judas, 198 

Iscariot, the soul of, 194 

with a temporal dole, 114 
Judea, they did n't know everythin' 

down in, 1 1 
Judge, 198 

forbear to, 80 

of the nations, 139 

of truth, sole, 462 
" O wise young, 72 

thy foe, each I, 71 

use is the, 379 
Judged, 198 

Judge's robe, nor the, 260 
Judges, 198 

and senates have been bought, 158 

of the world, the, 188 

soon the sentence sign, 92 

steal themselves, when, 386 
Judging, 198 
Judgment, 198, 

a Daniel come to, 72 

book, the leaves of the, 240 

day, till, 451 

guide his bounty, 84 

I stand for, 213 

morning, till the, 115 

on the day of, 450 

seat, before his, 415 

seat, stand presently 
great, 391 

some shallow spirit of, 213 

temper the imagination with, 

when I was green in, 349 
Judgments, 199 

as our watches, 'tis with our, 434 

mercies and, 154 

who write down, 347 
Judicious, 199 

a tale should be, 396 
Jug of wine, a, 85 
Juggle, who will elsewhere, 114 
Juice the growth of God, be this, 69 

when nectarean, 435 
Juices, the noblest, of the vineyard, 

, 344 
July, the warmth of its, 331 
Jumping from the chair, 204 
June, 199 

forget that night in, 72 

ice in, 67 

may be had, 177 

the leafy month of, 37 
Jungle, these are the laws of the, 287 
Juno had been sick, 62 



at God ' 



t 9 i 



Juno's crown, wedding is great, 437 

swans, like, 224 

unrelenting hate, 13 
Jury, 199 

has retired, when the, 92 
Juryman, a good, contented, well- 
breakfasted, 92 
Jurymen, discontented or hungry, 92 

may dine, that, 92 
Just, 199 

and good, 'twas there of, 91 

and 'tis prosperous to be, 34 

are the ways of God, 200 

hath his quarrel, 12 

his cause being, 45 

intent of bearing them is, 13 

pretence, are their, 67 

study to be good and, 104 

thou art, 104 

war, to be preferred before a, 430 
Justice, 199 

alike 'tis, 227 

by merely human, 155 

can do them, 114 

in the course of, 260 

may shove by, 289 

of innocent commercial, 413 

of it, than the, 212 

sleeps, and waiting, 417 

so little, here he found, 168 

when mercy seasons, 260 
Justifiable to men, and, 200 
Justified, no man is, 117 
Justify, 200 

the means, the end must, 109 



K 



Kail, the monks of Melrose made 

gude, 267 
Kangaroos, 200 
Kate has done, many a, 200 
Katy did no more, I warrant, 200 

do, what did, 200 
Katydid, 200 
Keel, 200 

while follow eyes the steady, 43 
Keep a dream or grave apart, to, 220 

and many to, 132 

a stiff upper lip,_ 55, 220 

him from broodin', 134 

house with fear, peace wun't, 299 

my soul to, 370 

near shore, little boats should, 424 

the day, we, 101 

out death, the postman or the 
bore, can, 31 

step to the music of the Union, 420 

the bridge with me, 37 

the last, if thou, 429 

the law, when legislators, 216 

the subtle ways I, 368 

the word of promise, that, 318 

time, and our oars, 286 

wel thy tonge, and, 411 



Index 



607 



Keep who can, they should, 396 

your powder dry, 311 
Keeper, thy, thy life, 189 
Keepers, and vigilant. 262 
Keeping their Christmas holiday, 265 
Keeps, another, 355 

in blast threescore years and ten, 
28 
Kehama shall reign, while, 69 
Ken, for years beyond our, 138 
Kendal green, misbegotten knaves in, 

XT 2 ° S 

Kennm wrang, may gang a, 188 
Kent, no man can gather cherries in, 

48 
Kentucky, 200 
Kept, better broken than, 319 

but never, 215 

by great men reached and, 177 

the Holy Supper is, 181 

the law, most truly, 213 

the time, with falling oars they, 286 
Kerchief so sly, in her, 226 
Kerns, these rough rug-headed, 424 
Kettle sings songs, the, 441 
Kew, his highness' dog at, 95 
Key, almost always at least one, 129 

into the hand, gives the, 33 

is but a lock without a, 438 

to which I found no, 423 

with the past 's blood- rusted, 281 
Keys of hell to keep, the, 369 

over the noisy, 291 

the impression of St. Peter 's, 347 
Khaki dress, the worn white soldiers 

in, 3 73 
Khan and the pachas, the, 63 
Kick, 201 

in that part more, a, 36 

me downstairs, why did you, 93 

off their burthens, 55 

the other, gore one way or, 292 
Kicked until they can feel whether, 20 
Kickshaws, 201 
Kidney. 201 

Kids, don't neglect your, 153 
Kill, 201 

a good book, as, 30 

a man, thou shalt, 250 

and heroes, 123 

a sound divine, may, 201 

a wife with kindness, 201 

ere doctors learned to, 94 

or save, alike to, 227 

that murder could not, 252 

the lust of office does not, 259 

were privileged to, 272 
Killed a mouse, I never, 271 

it, scotched the snake, not, 372 

with hunting him, was, 226 

with unutterable unkindliness , 421 
Killeth, the letter, 380 
Killing ain't perlite, to think thet, 131 
^ folks, ninepence a day for, 272 
Kills for gold, he steals, he, 157 

himself, he that, 422 



Kills reason itself, 30 

the heart, but, .236 

the letter, 380 
Kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man, 

250 
Kilns and the curt-tongued mills, 413 
Kin, makes the whole world, 278 

to God by his spirit, 248 
Kind, 201 

hearts are more than coronets, 148 

hearts, the true hearts, the, 175 

how good, how, 46 

of a little Johnny, a, 197 

of good deed, 459 

of men, for such, 401 

of men so loose in soul, 371 

only to be, 68 

still the fair are, 141 

than the colour of our, 58 

to Him, the little grey leaves were, 
458 

were perfect in our, 304 
Kinder gentleman treads not the 

earth , 150 
Kindest and the happiest pair, 138 

man, the, 145 
Kindled from above, 204 
Kindlier hand, larger heart, the, 174 
Kindling her undazzled eyes, 277 
Kindly faces, full of, 182 

had we never loved sae, 3 7 

to judge, 198 

use 'em, 280 
Kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, 

8 
Kindness, 201 
• cup o', 14 

in reserve, the great have, 384 

in the Jew, say there is much, 197 

save in the way of, 66 

the milk of human, 262 

to make to a woman, an offer of, 315 
Kindred. 201 
Kindred drops, like,, no 

each, each age, 24 

shall be joyful, 104 
Kinds, knowledge is of two, 206 

o' labour, all, 212 
Kine are to be loved, 126 

the smell of, 371 
King, 201, 202 

a gentleman, that makes the, 248 

catch the conscience of the, 306 

Charles, that to, 39 

contrary to the, 317 

dish for a, 6 

fellow with the best. 130 

foe of magistrate and, 143 

for Church and, 383 

God save our lord the, 308 

grew vain, 19 

half the zeal I served my, 357 

James used to call for his old shoes, 
146 

James 's men shall understand, 63 

makes me more than, 402 



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King 

of England, for Charles, 19 

of England cannot enter, 44 

of good fellows, the best, 130 

of his race, he the true, 410 

of men, this rail-splitter a true-born, 
324 

or nobles, a state without, 59 

Simonides, the good, 133 

so strong, what, 42 

Stephen was a worthy peer, 387 

the year's pleasant, 382 

to the shepherd, equals the, 369 

who serves the, 357 
Kingdom, a soul none better in my, 
438 

for a horse, my, 187 

for a stage, a, 383 

for it was too small, a, 381 

give grandam, 162 

is, both crown and, 262 

is, my mind to me a, 262 
Kingdoms and with kings, with, 147 
Kingliest act, the, 144 
King 's crown, not the, 260 

English, and the, 113 
Kings, 202 

and meaner creatures, 186 

but the breath of, 183 

Death lays his icy hand on, 127 

depart, the, 139 

enthroned in the hearts of, 260 

have lipped, a hand that, 205 

have no such couch as thine, 334 

it makes gods, 186 

may be blessed, 191 

of cabbages and, 430 

queens and states, 368 

showers on her, 107 

than beggars, worse in, 122 

that stir not the bosom of, 410 

the dread and fear of, 260 

the right divine of, 161 

this royal throne of, 112 

thou shalt lie down with . . . , 334 

will be tyrants from policy, 328 

with kingdoms and with, 147 

would not play at, 430 
Kiss, 202-204 

a bonny lass, 249 

and part, come let us, 296 

but in the cup, 99 

colder thy, 296 

every, has a price, 253 

from my forehead, 340 

Gillian the quicker, 226 

her and leave her, 55 

I think there is not half a, 243 

me, then come, 239 

me, though you make believe, 82 

more cheeks than one, or, 200 

not she with trait 'rous, 67 

not to sigh, learn to, 442 

seal with a righteous, 118 

that air, only to, 100 

the rod, all humbled, 341 



Kiss 

the rod, confess thy folly, 341 

the rod, wilt thou, 341 

the thing you, 74 

thine eyelids to, 293 

took her nightly, 283 

to share, the envied, 175 

was given, our good-night, 105 

when tyrants seem to, 419 

which Jews might, 197 
Kissed, 204 

had I wist before I, 231 

him, so she, 338 

me, before you have, 286 

that haughty scroll of gold, in 

thee, that lately, 100 

the fiddler 's wife, the minister, 263 

the rod, if right, I, 67 

those lips that I have, 468 
Kisses, 204, 205 

and welcome you '11 find here, 59 

as belonged to early days, such, 204 

plucked up, 204 

shall teach thy lips, my, 240 

stolen, much completer, 387 

which melts like, 210 
Kissing, 205 

cherries, those, 226 

gun, hot gun-lip, 347 

to deceive, you are, 82 

was clover, and, 240 
Kissings worth, what are all these, 204 
Kitchen bred, in the, 148 

hearth, chirping on my, 175 
Kite soar with unbloodied beak, 41 
Kites and crows, city of, 43 
Kith and kin, he taught to, 181 

and kin, it puzzled all our, 418 
Kitten, 205 
Kittened, your mother 's cat had but, 

277 
Knave, 205 

but he 's an arrant, 426 

I 'm not a, 326 

is, how absolute the, 43 

there he fells a, 383 

why does he suffer this rude, 214 

you are rid of a, 422 
Knaves, 205 

what fools or, 306 
Kneaded clod, become a, 90 
Kneading-pan, 'twixt her hands into 

the, 465 
Knee, crook the pregnant hinges of the, 
412 

knuckle or, 91 

to man unbent, with, 420 

with one of timber, the, 216 
Kneel, at some well-remembered grave, 
will, 163 

down remote, 312 

I saw my mother, 283 

undisturbed, fair saint, 348 
Knees, around her, 452 

down on your, 238 

on parent, 227 



Index 



609 



Knees, or climb his, 175 

the weakest saint upon his, 350 

were feeble, but that his, 313 
Knell, 205 

all ring fancy 's, 124 

is rung, by fairy hands their, 34 

like a rising, 334 

of parting day, 69 

that all-softening, o'erpowering, 92 

the, the shroud, 401 
Knelt in the pure shrine, 269 

there he would have, 313 
Knew, 206 

could carry all he, 456 

head which all men, 171 

he builded better than he, 39 

him, poor Yorick, I, 468 

honest face which all men, 171 

it could not last, 211 

me, since first you, 407 

no more of me you, 403 

texts enough to wear a parson 's 
gown, 401 

the woes of want, before I, 430 

they could but die, 90 

what he said, and the old woman, 
326 

what it were, if we, 117 

what's what, 261 

which, not a soul, 418 
Knife, 206 

nothin' for a cancer but the, 42 
^ war even to the, 430 
Knight, from Trier to Coin there was 
never a, 221 

no carpet, 46 

thy sire was a, 16 
Knight's bones are dust, the, 29 
Knights are pressing close, a thousand, 

179 
Knit hands and beat the ground, 409 

the holy knotts did, 206 
Knits up the ravelled sleave of care, 

Knives have edges, and some say, 404 

Knob of timber, headed with a, 249 

Knock as you please, there 's nobody 
at home, 447 
at the door, a, 84 
him about the sconce, to, 214 
his leek about his pate, 216 
I stand at the door and, 96 
it never is at home, when you, 447 
sentiment a-kitin', would jes, 309 
with a smart double, 338 

Knocker, 206 

Knocks, 206 

by apostolic blows and, 329 

Knot, 206 

of it, the Gordian, 161 

of mouth-friends, you, 146 

there 's no untying, the, 203 

Knots, 206 

Know, 206 

all our knowledge is ourselves to, 
250 



Know 

a man in love, how to, 239 
a subject ourselves, we, 206 
a trick worth two of that, 414 
don't never prophesy onless ye, 319 
everythin' down in Judee, they 

didn't, n 
from me, they shall never, 274 
full well, this alone I, 327 
he made an instrument to, 193 
him by his horns, 88 
his heart, shall you, 119 
howe'er contented never, 143 
how little while, you, 77 
how sublime a thing it is, 391 
I am happier than I, 170 
it, and they, 385 

it, I thought so once but now I, 219 
it, to sleep and not to, 370 
me all, but as you, 291 
me argues yourselves unknown, not 

to, 421 
me safe and warmly laid, 283 
me well, when it came to, 148 
my price, I, 315 
myself now, I, 300 
never to let her, 400 
nor care, I neither, 295 
not, I, I ask not, 236 
not of, that we, 79 
not the bells I, 23 

not well the subtle ways, they, 368 
not what, I, 78 
not what they do, they, 140 
not what they mean, I, 399 
not what thou art, I, 220 
not what we may be, 12 
not whence you came, 100 
not where, go we, 90 
not why I am so sad, I, 346 
not why you go. 100 
of England, what should they, 1 1 1 
one another, more occasion to, 238 
reason but from what we, 327 
sure no one could, 348 
't, let him not, 340 
thee not, to those who, 459 
the false heart doth, 122 
the hand, I, 169 
their friends, nature teaches beasts 

to, 278 
then this truth, 427 
then thyself, presume not, 250 
the reason why, will, 63 
the sweet Roman hand, 169 
the thing he would not, 394 
the woman who did not, 451 
this truth enough for man to, 427 
thou alone wilt, 409 
though less they, 376 
to esteem, to love, to, 221 
turtles from jays, teach him to, 195 
we can arrive to, 389 
well enough, wise men, 255 
what God and man is, 135 
what is become of him, do I, 310 



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Index 



Know 

what it is, we do not, 369 

what we are, 12 

what wood a cudgel 's of, 20 

where we can find information, 206 

who only England, in 

why, the woman who didn't, 451 

young men to do so, old men, 469 
Knowed a Quaaker fellow, I, 267 

how, T reckon he never, 135 

sunthin' tu, the gran'thers they, 469 
Knowest, speak less than thou, 362 
Knoweth its own loss, best, 163 
Knowing, 206 

cheese from chalk, proud of, 320 

dare maintain, 385 

what they do, not, 259 
Knowing's sake, know not for, 206 
Knowledge, 206 

all our, 250 

but greiving, what is, 62 

comes not with, 7 

from others' eyes, 394 

of good, 414 

of material things, a growing, 467 

of you, I shall desire more love and, 
462 

our death, the tree of, 414 

too high the price for, 91 

upon the tree of, 63 

with more zeal than, 279 
Known, nothing can be, 206 

nothing is, 77 
Knuckle or knee, 91 
Kohln, a town of monks and bones, 

387 
Koran teach thee, shall the, 242 
Kosciusko fell, as, 142 
Knows, 207 

each chord, he, 172 

it at forty, 251 

he that never took a pinch, 285 

himself to be a fool, 137 

his own child, 127 

his rider, as a steed that, 436 

not how to spend it, who, 319 

not to give o'er, who, 466 

not why, he, 104 

the cause, he, 357 

the inscrutable design, who, 164 

to live, he, 228 

what's Swat, he, 261 

when he goes to sleep, no boy, 370 

where is he who, 18 

which my nose, 285 
Know'st if best bestowed, 35 
Kye comes hame, when the, 457 



Labour, 207, 208 
all kin's o', 212 
and strife, of, 389 
and the wounds are vain, 391 
and to wait, 2 



Labour 

by stern and lonely, 321 

cheers the tar's, 409 

free, 142 

health, from, 172 

lost, 't will be but, 420 

of an age, 29 

o' fire with, 71 

ruined by Chinese cheap, 50 

shall be my lot, 104 

taking from and bearing fruit, 461 

there 's work for honest, 48 

to painful, 189 

wherever struggles, 144 

with his property or his, 338 

will often discard, his, 390 
Laboured much how to forget that 

learning, 466 
Labourer, 208 

Labourers, many, must be content to 
sow, 460 

room, to give some, 436 
Labouring, 208 

mountain must bring forth a mouse, 
270 
Labourious days, and live, 123 
Labour's bath, sore, 372 

done, and, 35 
Labours, children sweeten, 50 

fights, lives, breathes, 176 
Lace, chintz and Brussels, 75 
Laced, 208 

Laces, tied up in godly, 142 
Lachesis, twist, 380 
Lack an almanac, he doth not, 470 

of argument, for, 37s 

of somebody to hew and hack, 26 
Lacked, think all other kisses, 204 
Lackey her, liveried angels, 47 
Lacks a note, it, 248 

oil, after my flame, 228 
Lad, a dear-loved, 142 

in the education of the, 467 
Ladder, 208 

the Jacob's, of the treasury stairs, 
32S 

turns his back, 7 

we can frame a, 170 

young ambition 's, 7 
Laden, orbed maiden with white fire, 

268 
Ladies fair, articles of, 20 

young, spend their time in making 
nets, 280 
Ladies' love unfit, for, 20 
Lads and girls, golden, 103 

that thought there was no more 
behind, 411 
Lady, 209 

ev'ry, would be queen for life, 325 

fair, called her his, 136 

fair, he met with a, 145 

fair, ne'er wan a, 120 

my, fell to shame and hell, 57 

ne'er won fair, 120 

of "a certain age," 4 



Index 



6ir 



Lady 

of the snows, said our, 276 

patch hearts that are breaking, 

your, 175 
protests too much, the, 319 
sad, to make a sweet, 346 
terms, many holiday and, 401 
the white-handed, the cinder wench 

and, 21 
thy mother a, 16 
with mien of lord or, 325 

Lady-love, of, 233 

Lady-loves, for years they served their, 
414 

Lady 's bower, caught it in my, 342 
chamber, get you to my, 46S 
chamber, he capers nimbly in a, 432 
faith, learn to win a, 120 
mind, hard to move the, 141 

Lager beer, all goned afay mit de, 297 
bier, have given place to, 22 

Laggard in love and a dastard in war, 
237 

Laid her head beside my own, when 
she, 243 
him down, slowly and sadly we, 153 
him low, 277 

me down with a will, and I, 163 
on with a trowel, that was, 415 
thee low, wound that, 106 
them down, have, 75 
them flat with a spade, 77 

Lair, the cold, of my dark generation, 
284 

Laird o' Cockpen, I was daft to refuse 
the, 329 

Lake, pebble stirs the peaceful, 53 

Lakes, shakes across the, 382 

Lamb, 209 

made the ewe bleat for the, 448 
more mild, in peace was never 

gentle, 432 
the skin of an innocent, 295 
when the lion fawns upon the, 226 

Lambs, the young, are bleating in the 
meadows, 469 
to pasture, who lead us, 325 
where they shut up the, 404 

Lame and impotent conclusion, 
dogs over stiles, helping .... 
my horse went, 57 

Lament for Madam Blaize, 26 
or fear, weakness to, 65 

Lamentable thing, is not this a, 

Laments the weakness of these latter 
times, 437 

Lamp, 209 

hast but taken thy, 108 

if thou hast quenched a, 149 

that saw her swear, by the, 428 

Lampoon, scribbler of some low, 24s 

Lamps shone, bright the, 334 

Lance, upon them with the, 179 

Lances, hurl their, 350 

Land, 209 

and the peace of the, 373 



60 
460 



29s 



Land 

are we, a thousand miles from, 354 

both by sea and, 189 

deal damnation round the, 71 

dominion over sea and, 402 

firm as the, 267 

humours of the, 141 

ill fares the, 300 

in that lonely, 184 

in the new and happy, 48 

is bright, the, 224 

leads to the, 374 

light that never was on sea or, 225 

o'er the furrowed, 307 

of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, 65 

of every land the pride, 65 

of just and old renown, 144 

of liberty, sweet, 65 

of promise lies, the, 159 

of settled government, 144 

of the free, o'er the, 17 

of the Pilgrims, Plymouth the. 308 

of the Pilgrims' pride, 65 

or gold, spared neither, 341 

or life, if freedom fail, 143 

o' the leal, the, 215 

rent with civil feuds, a, 420 

reposed, her, 323 

ring out the darkness of the, 72 

something good and bad of every, 
8 

that bears a well-known name, 113 

that defends the, 353 

the charter of the. 37 

thy country, that. 182 

to what it is in a foreign, 133 

trembled, and the, 147 

weeds that mar the, 355 

we live within the stranger's, 181 

we would purge the. 133 

whales . . . o' the, 133 

when he that selleth house or, 356 

where my fathers died, 65 

where shadows reign, in the, 151 

where shall that, 182 

wrong rules the, 417 

yet all her house and, 265 

yet, no, 43 S 
Landing on some silent shore, 89 
Landlord, 209 
Land-rats and water-rats, there be, 

359 
Lands and goods, thy, 134 

and tenements to Ned, 91 

Death the Ploughman wanders in 
all, 79 

envy of less happier, 112 

intersected by a narrow frith, no 

lords and rulers in all, 147 

lords of many, 141 

till in all, 104 

to carry me to unknown, 186 

were fairly portioned, 341 
Landscape, 209 
Landsmen, list ye, 346 

run, what risks all, 347 



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Index 



Landsmen say, believe not what the, 

347 
Land-thieves, water-thieves and, 359 
Language, 210 

but a cry, with no, 192 

in his own, 100 

in his tears, strangled his, 399 

of his strange, 78 

oh, that those Hps had, 227 

plain, the, 396 

quite failed, till, 389 

were truth our uttered, 417 

yields, for which no rhyme our, 389 
Languish broken-hearted, and, 295 
Lantern, therefore bear you the, 422 
Lap, coiling in its nurse 's, 416 

die in thy, 174 

into thy mother's, 228 

me in soft Lydian airs, 394 

my heaven in a lady 's, 209 

of earth, upon the, 257 

of Thetis, in the, 269 

poured in her, 107 
Lapdog, as if it were a miniature, 64 
Lapdogs breathe their last, or when, 

362 
Laps milk, take suggestion as a cat, 

392 
Lapwing, the wanton, 241 
Larboard, rolled to, 354 
Larder, not a scrap of anything in the, 

48 
Lards, 210 

Large enough, my library was duke- 
dom, 218 

of heart, 175 

streams from little fountains flow, 2 
Larger heart, the kindlier hand, 174 
Largest congregation, the latter has 

the, 87 
Lark, 210 

becomes a sightless song, the, 457 

is so brimful of gladness, 235 

it was the nightingale and not the, 
28^ 
e bl ____ 

sing so like a, 326 

the raven doth not hatch a, 326 
Larks are flying, while nights and, 151 
Lash, drawn with the, 199 

the rascals naked through the 
world, 439 
Lashed by law, that must be, 52 
Lass, 210 

a queen, and every, 469 

may kiss a bonny, 249 

thou can luvv thy, 241 
Lasses, 211 

were spent amang the, 165 
Lassie, 211 

to woo a bonnie, 457 
Last, 211 

and fight it to the, 131 

angel rolls the stone away, 13 

are they the, 328 

as we sigh away our, 455 



Last 

at his cross, 67 

best gift, 177 

bitter hour, thoughts of the, 362 

come to thy God at, 155 

death that comes at, 79 

deep, to that, 18 

effort, the, of decayed fortune, 171 

embrace, silent in a, 108 

embrace, take your, 118 

eyes, look your, 118 

her monuments shall, 322 

if thou keep the, 429 

in both the, 309 

it is my, 237 

look of despairing, 86 

love thyself, 48 

man, to the, 141 

night, look yes, 468 

night I wrought a murder, 272 

not least in love, though, 238 

of earth, this is the, 106 

she has breathed her, 105 

sleep, in their, 75 

that after, 159 

that man may, 26 

the best reserved of God, woman, 
the, 453 

the people will come to their own 
at, 301 

time, to behold for the, 420 

time's noblest offspring is the, 109 

to lay the old aside, 126 

too exquisite to, 198 

unchanged, and will, 191 

words of Marmion, 47 

words that poor Narcissa, 75 

year's nest, no birds in, 280 
Lasted, as long's their neighbours', 

267 
Lasts, a day longer than a wonder, 456 

a deal longer, its echo, 203 

like iron for things like these, 441 
Late, 211 

and finds too, 136 

early or too, 127 

I led, life that, 223 

till too, to come again, 405 

too, repentance comes, 127 
Latin, 211 

in Greek and, 30 

that soft bastard, 210 

was no more difficile, 165 

word for three farthings, 332 
Laud, more, than gilt o'erdusted, 103 
Lauderdale, and driven the beeves of, 

267 
Laugh, 211, 212 

always makes the devil, 447 

a siege to scorn, 17 

do we not, 197 

of hell, the loudest, 336 

than scold, inclines us more to, 212 

that she may, 189 

the landlord 's, 209 

when boys or women, 99 



Index 



613 



Laughed and blushed and oft did say, 
300 

awhile he, 342 

consumedly, for they, 396 

I looked and, 73 

out, the maiden, 440 

when you, 239 

with counterfeited glee, 93 
Laughing at the storm, 385 

quaffing and unthinking, 71 
Laughs, Jove, at lovers' perjuries, 302 

Jove but, at lovers' perjury, 302 

the morn, fair, 470 

with you, laugh and the world, 212 
Laughter, 212 

an infant's idle, 119 

for a month, 196 

holding both his sides, 382 

our meeting was all mirth and, 296 

present mirth hath present, 239 

wine and women, mirth and, 444 

with mirth and, 264 

yea, for my, 382 
Launcelot and I are out, 292 
Launch our Mayflower, 281 
Launched, 212 

from the docks and stocks, 461 
Laurel, 212 

not a single straw for a, 308 

under the, 28 

wreaths entwine, 304 
Lava, and the blood's, 204 

flood, mine was like the, 233 
Lave, what the women, 375 
Lavished life 's best oil, 416 
Lavinia, she is, 453 
Law, 212-214 

and gospel, in, 380 

and love, the bridal time of, 300 

and not to make, 198 

and rich men rule the, 214 

and sovereign, 385 

and virtue, foe of, 143 

buys out the, 289 

by nature 's kindly, 49 

changing world of changeless, 224 

divine, all things by a, 366 

doth give it, the, 134 

ends, where, 419 

however stern, 37 

I crave the, 83 

is drinking, nature 's holy, 101 

is murder by the, 272 

is that the, 199 

morals, all began, where faith, 269 

nor the world 's, 463 

nothing is, that is not reason, 327 

office is to interpret, 198 

of life, progress is the, 318 

of love, the Koran teach thee the, 
242 

of love, the Saviour with his, 235 

of the road, understand the, 455 

one, one element, 322 

order is heaven's first, 291 

reason is the light of the, 327 



Law 

reason is the soul of the, 327 

self-defence is nature's eldest, 356 

Sir Andrew and his love of, 235 

that must be lashed by, 52 

the, and rule of speech, 379 

the head and the hoof of the, 287 

the lion's paw is all the, 226 

the reason of the, being changed, 

327 
to make thee rich, the world affords 

no, 463 
wedded love, mysterious, 437 
when legislators keep the, 216 

Lawful, awful wedlock, 438 

Lawless science of our law, the, 214 
through the void, flame, 306 

Lawn, sleeves of, 42 

the sun upon the upland, 151 
to meet the sun upon the upland, 
392 

Law's delay, the, 323 

Laws, 214 

and learning die, 284 

a thousand, 419 

but those which love has made, all, 

?33 
for rich and poor, unequal, 115 
for the, 19 

for the blood, devise, 33 
of a nation, who should make, 16 
of . . . holier, 252 
of servitude, the base, 350 
of the jungle, these are the, 287 
of Venice, by the, 134 
lay hid in night, nature's, 281 
of nature mine, I '11 make the, 101 
of nature, to which the, 356 
to aid the freeman's, 144 
which it had framed, equal, 59 
which the people have made, 289 
who sweeps a room as for thy, 102 
with purer, 252 

Lawyer. 214 

draw up the papers, 292 

Lawyers, 214 
priests, 218 

Lay, 214 

bare, none ever dare to, 284 

bare thine arm, 388 

down my arms, never, 8 

for that same member, to, 171 

her i' the earth, 426 

him in his grave, to, 184 

him i' the cold ground, 438 

his weary bones, come to, 29 

it in the dust, an hour may, 385 

like a warrior taking his rest, 433 

me down to take my sleep, now I, 

37o 
me a-hold, I will heartily, 156 
on my fevered spirit, and it, 374 
the old aside, last to, 126 
there let him, 73 
there she, 26 
the steed, and there, 386 



614 



Index 



Lay 

waste our powers, we, 463 

your head well to the wind, 171 
Lays her skaith to me, nae maiden, 
456 

in the application on it, 287 
Lazy foot of Time, 56 
Lea, slowly o'er the, 69 

standing on this pleasant, 293 
Lead, 214 

apes in hell, 10 

but to the grave, 163 

his apes into hell, 10 

like molten, 398 

my steps aright, will, 387 
Leaden metal into gold, 162 
Leader sage, a, 46 

Leaders fall, mourning when their, 271 
Leads on to fortune, 405 

the fight, when glory, 143 

treads, 44 
Leaf down, turn the, 45 

falls into the yellow, 223 

falls with the, 372 

my days are in the yellow, 223 

the one red, 342 

the sear, the yellow, 223 

trembles, the dead, 275 
Leafless all the winter time, was, 343 
Leafy month of June, 37 
League-long roller thundering on the 

reef, 341 
Leak in roof, shows, 356 
Leaking, 215 
Leal, 215 

all men true and, 150 

and tried, both, 57 
Lean and hungry look, 126 

and slippered pantaloon, the, 294 

fellow beats all conquerors, a, 61 

hungry, savage, anti-everythings , 10 

kine are to be loved, 126 

pates, fat paunches have, 298 

to virtue's side, 119 
Leaned a sexton old, 357 
Leans her cheek upon her hand, 47 

on this side, and neither, 228 

upon his hand, he, 152 

upon his hoe, he, 180 
Leap from the rocks, as they, 339 

look before you ere you, 230 

look ere thou, 230 

the pulses, 470 

the rainbows of the brooks, 350 
Leaps, a heart that, 173 

beneath the Future's heart, 115 

the live thunder, 405 
Learn, 215 

in no other, 117 

more than thou trowest, 362 

nor account the pang, 328 

of the little nautilus to sail, 278 

to live well, 228 

to pity them, I, 305 

to write well or not to write at all, 
466 



Learned and all drunk, 102 

and fair, 180 

and conned by rote, 15 

gladly to obey, he that hath, 287 

lumber, loads of, 30 

played, eat together, 224 

roast an egg, the, 108 

than the ears, more, 2 

there, less is, 135 

to dance, as those move easiest who 
have, 467 

to glow, my heart has, 174 

to trace, the boding tremblers, 93 
Learning, 215 

a pride of, 316 

and his wit, to match his, 329 

and laboured much how to forget 
that, 466 

die, laws and, 284 

hath gained most, 31 

physic, must, 103 

with just enough of, 265 
Leas, along the healthy, 224. 
Leash or band, where shall we find, 

344 
Least, although the last, not, 211 

in love, though last, not, 238 

the very, as feeling her care, 212 
Leather, a shoe be Spanish or neat's, 
20 

or prunello, the rest is all but, 465 
Leave, 215 

and ever will have, 379 

behind us, departing, 138 

God-like is it all sin to, 365 

her, kiss her and, 55 

her to heaven, 270 

her, ruin and, 83 

him alone, 't will, 461 

it to men 's charitable speeches, 258 

it to others, must not, 96 

me here in wretchedness, 381 

my second leg, 138 

my sin without, 365 

no more for fortune, 89 

not in Corinth, 63 

off, now Rory, 286 

only give me, 378 

sack I '11 purge and, 346 

that till to-morrow never, 408 

the bottle on the chimley-piece, 
32 

thee, must I, Paradise, 295 

the world for him, I 'd, 452 

this laurel, let us, 181 

to speak, I trust I may have, 3 79 

us in the dust, 104 

us still our old nobility, 284 

us yit, God wun't, 320 

you my direction, I cannot, 89 
Leaven lowly lives, to, 219 

of a lie, without some, 218 
Leaves, 215, 216 

and not on paper, 24 

devil whispered behind the, 13 

flattering, that shadowed us, 3 



Index 



6n 



Leaves 

in the glassy stream, shows his 
hoar, 444 

no, no birds, 285 

off his wit, and, 251 

of hope, the tender, 164 

of stone, 24 

of the judgment book unfold, the, 
240 

on trees, like, 250 

open their thousand, 382 

roots, wood, bark and, 308 

that are serest, waft the, 326 

the little grey, were kind to Him, 
458 

the well-built nest. 17s 

us so doubly serious, laughter, 212 

words are like, 379 
Leaving it, became him like the, 223 

the cross, nearer, 278 

with meekness her sins, 351 
Lectures in her night-dress, 295 
Led astray, like one that has been, 268 

by the nose with gold, 158 
Ledger, his Bible with his, 247 
Leek, 216 

nat worth a. 271 
Leer, assent with civil, 71 
Lees, and the mere, 270 

the wine of life is on the, 270 
Left behind, and the winds are, 86 

but by submission, none, 332 

it so, you might have, 148 

me naked to mine enemies, 357 

of six hundred, 80 

of them, cannon to, 42 

her woman still, the worst of crimes 
had, 449 

on my lip, the kiss that she, 203 

our country, for our countrv's good, 
64 

the name, he, 274 

the rose, I on its stalk had, 342 

us, for a handful of silver he, 336 

while yet a nook is, no 

all we have, 91 
Leg, 216 

and one the, 108 

can honour set to a, 184 

for the loss of a, 434 

leave my second, 138 

lizard's, 179 
Legacy, no, is so rich as honesty, 183 
Legible hand, if God writes a, 426 

in the eie, 117 
Legion of foul fiends, a, 98 
Legislators, 216 
Legs a race, between two, 344 

under his huge, 58 
Lend, lend your wings, 163 

less than thou owest, 362 

me your ears, 341 

three thousand ducats, 95 
Lender, neither a borrower nor a, 31 
Lends enchantment to the view, 93 

his eye, dares not, 312 



Lends out money gratis he, 421 
Length along, drags its slow, 6 

be reckoned by its, 204 

of days, that, 223 

of seven year, it seems the, 407 

of shambling limb, his, 225 

thy God, may give thee at the, 429 
Lengthen our days, ways to, 74 
Lengthens its boundaries, 437 
Lenore, and forget this lost, 280 

whom the angels name, 246 
Lent him dross-allayed, 82 
Less as is said, the, 260 

better the more than, 28 

fine by degrees and beautifully, 131 

flogging, there is now, 135 

foul profanation, but in the, 196 

Greek, small Latin and, 211 

happier lands, envy of, 112 

I '11 grow, 346 

in size, this world far, 331 

love not man the, 277 

of earth than heaven, 'tis, 176 

than 'arf o' that be'ind, rather, 420 

the, of two evils, 116 

to-morrow you shall not be, 411 

you won't have any, 392 
Lessened, one pain is, 131 
Lesser is scarce felt, the, 247 
Lessons, gif dem moral, 351 
Let a body be, they winna, 455 

down this brutal iaw, 195 

her down the wind, 168 

in the foe, to, 84 

loose among the nuts and wine, my 
lips, 396 

Newton be, and all was light, 281 
Lethe steep, my sense in, 98 
Let's to billiards, 25 
Lets me, I '11 make a ghost of him that, 
420 

forth his sprite, every one, 282 
Letter, 216 

and affection, preferment goes by, 
315 

and each evanescent, 450 

and runs with a, 301 

give 'im a, 301 

killeth, the, 380 

kills, the, 380 
Lettered, braw brass collar, 58 
Letters, 216 

mean, the thing those, 450 

this prints my, 36 

to cut our names in big, 275 
Letter-writing, 216 
Level, 217 

day by day, lower to his, 56 

we steal by line and,_ 386 
Lever, contrive some kind of a, 403 
Levite, 217 
Levy, foreign, 223 
Lexicography, I am not so lost in, 

459 
Lexicon of youth, in the, 119 
Liable to fear, if my name were, 126 



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Index 



Liar, 217 

one woman not a, 462 

truth to be a, 97 
Liars, fears may be, 391 
Libel, by application to a, 413 
Liberal education, was a, 108 
Liberties away, that bribed their, 106 
Libertine, a chartered, 5 
Liberty, 217, 218 

a man is master of his, 250 

and innocence my, 318 

must be guaranteed his, 338 

plucks justice by the nose, 199 

some draw sword for, 146 

sweet land of, 65 

the school of religious, 11 1 
Library, 2 18 

furnished me from mine own, 3 1 
Lick absurd pomp, let the candied 
tongue, 412 

his own fingers, cannot, 62 

my hand, veriest cur would, 169 
Licked them off, the breakers, 35 
Licks the hand just raised, 27 
Lid, hang upon his pent-house, 370 
Lids that will not lift again, the, 369 

unsullied, lights on, 370 
License and wanton rage, 431 

they mean, 217 
Lie, 218, 219 

abroad for the good of his country, 

among the dead men let him, 172 

and let it, 74 

and let them, 230 

and sweetly sleep, they softly, 333 

a party, or a thriving, 42 

at the proud foot, 112 

beneath the churchyard stone, 146 

dig the grave and let me, 163 

down, thou shalt, 334 

down like a tired child, I could, 81 

fear not to, 67 

for every nail, without a, 187 

I, I cheat, 247 

in a cowslip 's bell I, 21 

in arms, to front a, 146 

in cold obstruction, to, 90 

is gross, the, 249 

long enough, only, 151 

men who will not, 259 

that countenance cannot, 117 

too deep for tears, thoughts that 
do often, 404 

to see him, 96 

under dust to, 103 

underneath this stone doth, 427 

which works from the heart out- 
ward, first real, 451 

within the light of God, to, 334 

with me, loves to, 165 
Lied, and he never, 135 
Lies a-dying, the old year, 468 

and here he, 145 

down to pleasant dreams, and, 227 

ends in Here he, 104 



Lies frae end to end, 30 

here Francis C , 87 

he there now, 335 

in circulation, the stock of your, 

82 
in his bed, 165 
it, I know, 74 
lifts the head and, 59 
one whose name was traced in sand, 

below, 274 
one whose name was writ in water, 

here, 274 
poor Ned Purdon, here, 168 
that warp us from the living truth, 

470 
there, it, 37s 
the rest is, 135 
to hide it, 218 

under ground, poor G , 168 

what once was Matthew Prior, here, 

where he longed to be, here he, 163 
Life, 219-224 

alt the days of her, 451 

all your, 56 

and all its chances, enhances, 284 

and barred from real, 76 

and death are all the same, 155 

and death, assured alone that, 147 

and death, a traveller between, 413 

and death, bravely as for, 120 

and love one name, made, 454 

and love to share, her, 450 

and next to, 414 

and on the tree of, 63 

and our little, 428 

and strength in every drop, there 

, is '. 445 
and trifles, 414 

an' love an' youth, who ventered, 19 
argues a monstrous, 80 
a thing apart, man 's love is of man 's, 

232 
beats out his weary, 25 
beyond life, to a, 30 
but as a part of, 232 
but the spirit giveth, 380 
by art, measure their, 398 
child who enters, 77 
complete, nor ever yet was woman's, 

454 
cool sequestered vale of, 68 
crawled and crept through, 352 
days of my, 16 

death, and that vast forever, 374 
death is the crown of, 8 1 
declines, when the fire slackens, 28 
did close, and like a lily her, 105 
did harbour give, which in, 427 
dost thou love, 407 
down from its mark, grinding, 439 
elysian, a suburb of the, 76 
exempt from public haunt, 3 
fie upon this single, 366 
flower of a blameless, 26 
friendship 's the wine of, 146 



Index 



617 



Life 

from out young hearts, press the, 

296 
gives me mystical lore, sunset of, 

358 
has passed with me but roughly, 227 
hath no more to bring, 455 
he never heerd in his, 11 
he passeth from, 269 
her waist is ampler than her, 429 
his, a breath of God, 248 
how good is man 's, 229 
if freedom fail, or land or, 143 
I have walked through, 177 
I 'm sure, was in the right, his, 120 
in doing one 's work in, 460 
in our course through, 257 
in the blast of a, 314 
in the very means of, 35 
in this world, a damnable, 168 
is a lightning-flash, 123 
is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 400 
is but a span, 429 
is dirty, the public path of, 92 
is done, when, 229 
is hope, one half of woman's, 454 
is in decrease, 81 
is in the right, whose, 120 
is made of, the stuff, 407 
is never the same again, 203 
is not too long, I think that, 462 
is o'er, long self-sacrifice of, 356 
is one dem'd horrid grind, my, 166 
is perfected by death, 206 
is seen, creeping where no, 19s 
is the staff of, 35 
is thorny, 412 
is to the living, as, 77 
it never could save us a, 230 
language grows out of, 210 
long, a fool his whole, 444 
nearer the bound of, 278 
never knew any man in my, 265 
no certain, achieved by others' 

death, 27 
nor limb nor, 341 
nothing half so sweet in, 236 
o'er a' the ills o', 191 
of, of crown, of queen, 370 
of care, and weep away the, 81 
of joy, renews the, 435 
of man less than a span, 461 
of mortal breath, this, 76 
of poor Jack, watch for the, 48 
of so many suffering women, the 

inner, 451 
oh the wasted hours of, 434 
once in this waste weary, 230 
one, 133 

on the ocean wave, a, 288 
on the pulse of, 86 
on the walls of this tenement of, 27 
onward through, 410 
outlived of yore, some, 315 
over a wasted, 215 
presiding, o'er his, 443 



Life 

progress is the law of, 318 

remainder of his healthful, 109 

ring in the nobler modes of, 252 

ruled her like a thing of, 436 

sail forth into the sea of, 443 

seems to feel the thrill of, 200 

serene, her, 323 

set by 't more than by your, 42 

shall be destroyed, not one, 160 

shall dawn on their rest, ere, 97 

shortens not his own, 213 

slits the thin-spun, 123 

so careless of the single, 419 

so dear, is, 217 

so on the ocean of, 360 

so softly death succeeded, 105 

so sweet, think of that who find, 343 

stood the tree of, 414 

that costs thy, 448 

that gives it, 443 

the best of, 193 

the blandishments of, 66 

the death of each day 's, 370 

the desire to transform, 190 

the end of, cancels, 82 

the fairest action of our human, 33s 

the firmest friend, in, 176 

the God who gave us, 217 

the happiest moments of my, 397 

the harp of, 241 

the light of a whole, 281 

the load of human, 370 

the narrow way of, 452 

the serpent that did sting thy 

father 's, 356 
these struggling tides of, 322 
the wave of, 36 
the wine of, is drawn, 270 
the wine of, is on the lees, 270 
they increase the cares of, 50 
throughout a weary, 321 
thy, thy keeper, 189 
till wisdom is pushed out of, 84 
time used is, 407 
to all the bitterness of, 390 
to be, the clock tells of a, 280 
to close, wish our happy, 89 
to come, expatiates in a, 186 
to let out, 79 
to live would not be, 81 
to me, work is, 460 
to part, with, 185 
to pour his, 248 
to save his country's, 432 
to the end, through, 58 
truth outlives pain as the soul does, 

415 
under a weary, 79 
unsought, victim of a, 419 
upon a cast, 44 

variety 's the very spice of, 423 
walks the waters like a thing of, 436 
warmth that feeds my, 443 
was beauty, 104 
was duty, that, 104 



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Index 



Life 

was ever lived on earth, no, 98 

was gentle, his, 250 

wept too much in my, 208 

what is there in the vale of, 442 

what we call, 79 

when my dream of, 236 

when the heart, moments in, 173 

which is of all life centre, 76 

which seems so fair, this, 461 

while there is, 185 

who fell in the battle of, 61 

whose lonely, 384 

will be a heavy burden, 460 

winds them up, the Angel of, 33 

with sorrow strewing, all my, 458 

work done is the true happiness of, 

460 
worth a hundred years of, 39 
would be queen for, 325 
yield a step for death or, 431 

Life-blood of a master spirit, 30 
out of a frail young creature, 423 

Lifeboat, and like the, 145 

Lifeless clay, touched the, 27 
face, shade my, 75 
head, pressed once more the, 109 

Lifelong hunger in his heart, 174 

Life's a fort, this, 422 
arrears, pay glad, 78 
best oil, lavished, 416 
but a span, a, 100 
but a walking shadow, 411 
combat, nerveth his arm for, 410 
dear peril, at, 416 
drear desert faring, o'er, 232 
dull round, traveled, 192 
feast, chief nourisher in, 370 
final star, is brotherhood, 38 
gall, alone you must drink, 152 
grimace, through, 81 
history, mad from, 244 
leaden metal into gold, 162 
monotony, concealed in, 462 
poor play is o'er, 49 
retreat, this narrow cell was, 367 
set prize, for his, 318 
spring, I would change, 409 
star, our, 25 

solemn main, sailing o'er, 138 
sorrow and earth 's woe, to endure, 

242 
unresting sea, by, 376 

Lifetime to engrave it, taken half a, 
264 

Lift their fronded palms in air, 43 
their heels, asses, 14 

Lifted up and strengthened, 156 

Lifts the head and lies, 59 

Light, 224, 225 

all changeful as the, 73 

and collateral, 384 

and maddening as her, 344 

an infant crying for the, 192 

as air, trifles, 195 

as film, though, 245 



Light 

as if they feared the, 129 

blind to, 70 

by the dawn 's early, 1 7 

came from heaven, 245 

commands all, 127 

dawn of multitudinous-eddying, 18 

de shtar of de sphirit's, 297 

discovers, on all their, 384 

dispense serener, 65 

ere it comes to, 231 

floods the calm fields with, 268 

follow, and do the right, 338 

from grave to, 162 

from heaven, love indeed is, 233 

from those flames no, 72 

grant me to see the, 313 

has come, the, 75 

heavenly food is very, 123 

he leaves behind him, 138 

her eye lost its, 153 

in God's pure, 198 

in the dust, the, 209 

is come, and, 45 

is lingering yet, thy, 384 

lead kindly, 214 

let Newton be, and all was, 281 

light love, how the, 233 

me another Cuba, 339 

memory brings the, 258 

more sweetly recommend the, 447 

not to the wise the, 324 

of a whole life, the, 281 

of day, into the, 15 

of eternal, 154 

of fuller day, in the, 252 

of God, within the, 334 

of heaven, dimmed the, 155 

of its own fireside, 173 

of love shines over all, 235 

of the bright world, the, 281 

of the law, reason is the, 327 

refulgent, flames in the, 288 

shakes, the long, 382 

square of comfortable, 25 

swifter than, 262 

than a, 78 

that lies in woman's eyes, 118 

that visits these sad eyes, 443 

the glimmering taper 's, 185 

to hold, and, 157 

the upward iooking and the, 467 

truth, and love, 403 

truth will come to, 417 

unveiled her peerless, 268 

whatever record leap to, 358 

which beats upon a throne, that 
fierce, 404 

within this brain, the, 19s 

withdrawn, the, 121 

with something of angelic, 454 

word part us now, shall a, 146 
Lighted me to bed, that, 167 

once more it may be, 149 
Lightened and hailed, thundered, 389 
Lightens my humour, 196 



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619 



Lightly fall, not, 144 
Lightning, a flash of the, 269 

and the gale, the, 133 

does the will of God, as, 144 

flashing, seen war's, 431 

in the breech, as quick as, 36 

loosed the fateful, 153 

or in rain, in thunder, 257 
Lightning-flash of breath, 123 
Lightning's vivid powers, 26 
Lights are fled, whose, 17 

burn bright and fair, the, 194 

like glories fall, where, 264 

of mild philosophy, the calm, 303 

on lids unsullied, and, 370 

on my shoulders, but what. 244 
Like again, I shall not look upon his, 
250 

as eggs, 108 

husbands, fools are as, 190 

my father, no more, 37 

to be despised, I, 86 

to do unto you, 82 

you in the rest, if we are, 197 
Likeness, 225 

that I knew, in the old, 97 
Likes, chastises those whom most he, 
177 

may marry whom she, 255 

your music, the general so, 273 
Lilies, 225 

blow, where roses and white, 343 

charge for the golden, 1 79 
Lily, 225 

her life did close, like a, 105 

to paint the, 152 
Limb, lopping away of the, 230 

a chief, of the statue, 308 

face and, 418 

his length of shambling, 225 

in heart and in, 113 

nor beauty, 336 

nor, nor life, 341 

strength of, 46 

with joint or, 381 
Limbed like the old heroic breeds, 250 
Limbs, a calf's-skin on those recreant, 
226 

appear, my lusty, 357 

at rest, with our, 108 

composed, thy decent, 139 

whose trembling, 375 

with travel tired, 21 

wrap my cold, 75 
Limed in a bush, 25 

soul that struggling to be free, 377 
Limes, where the fragrant, 296 
Limit of becoming mirth, within the, 
196 

of my capacity for work, never 
found out the, 460 

there is however a, 138 
Limitless space, there is, 178 

time, there is, 178 
Limits cannot hold love out, stony, 
239 



Limits of a constitution, within the> 
289 

of becoming mirth, within the, 196 
Limping on, with swelled feet, 301 
Lincoln, 225 

green, a doublet of the, 403 
Linden, 225 
Line, 225 

a cable, his, 439 

and level, we steal by, 386 

and lives along the, 380 

down all our, 308 

hard, hit the, 222 

into a horizontal, 389 

of 'eroes, but it 's thin red, 180 

rises along the charging, 19 

some earnest verse or, 466 

the oldest craft on the, 346 

the power-house of the, 312 

the shelter and grace of our, 49 

to cancel half a, 465 

we carved not a, 153 
Linen, 226 
Lines, a vast extent of flimsy, 353 

desert of a thousand, 364 

of hair, slight, 168 

own the happy, 231 

the town-crier spoke my, 379 
Lingering a minute, 292 

lie, like a dewdrop shall, 203 
Lining, turn forth her silver, 56 
Link that binds her, but the, 258 

the silver, 237 
Linked more close, 376 

and incidents well, 396 

sweetness long drawn out, 394 

with gold, the love that's, 203 

with one virtue, 64 
Links, who can follow the gossamer, 15 
Linnets, 226 

sing their wonted strain, 233 
Lion, 226 

a bear or, 56 

be to speak, 14 

creeping nigher, as a, 301 

in his den, 85 

may, when many asses do, 14 

on the lip of a, 134 

raged more fierce, in war was never, 
432 

that would be mated by the, 384 

to look upon a, 393 
Lions by the beard, plucks dead, 423 

in the way, he espied two, 226 

let bears and, 95 

to walk like one of the, 239 
Lion-spirits that tread the deck, the, 

. 133 
Lip, 226 

atheism is rather in the, 14 

can speak, ere the feverish, 293 

can speak, not all the, 172 

curving a contumelious, 384 

has left, kiss thy, 203 

him, maids will not, 4 

keep a stiff upper, 55, 220 



Index 



Lip 

Mary, the red was on your, 387 
of a lion, on the, 134 
pride in her, 316 
reveal, or the, 174 
so rich in blisses, her, 204 
the kiss that she left on my, 203 
the marge, till it, 53 
which would be still, 10 
with a stiff upper, 58 
with lingering, 274 
you press, the, 411 
Lips, 227 

apart, standing with mute, 115 

are dumb, when the, 174 

at the touching of the, 226 

drew near, their, 204 

elated, here sang the, 374 

have spoken, when the, 209 

here hung those, 468 

how ripe in show, 226 

let loose among the nuts and wine, 

my, 396 
may beguile, the, 398 
my kisses shall teach thy, 240 
my whole soul through my, 204 
of lying lovers, the, 384 
of those ye love, by the, 179 
O you, the doors of breath, 118 
prevailed, truth from his, 352 
refused to send farewell, 124 
rest on the, 252 

she give you so much of her, 412 
so thin, these words came from his, 

357 
Spanish sailors with bearded, 360 
taught to writhe, 233 
that are for others, on, 205 
the wedges flew from between their, 

■ 4 , 37 

to it, let me put my, 32 

we press, red as the, 55 

were red, her, 226 

when I ope my, 291 

where grief is mute, two, 208 

whispering with white, 136 

who wipes her, 203 

with a smile on her, 371 

you have witchcraft in your, 226 
Liquid be, whate'er the, 68 

sober, saga and venerable, 397 
Liquids, and gentle, 210 
Liquor, and the quality of the, 403 

for boys, claret is, the, 34 

is blood, their, 379 

toss off thy, 26 
Liquors, I never did apply hot and 

rebelious, 357 
Lisp their sire's return, run to, 175 
Lisped in numbers, I, 466 
Lisping stammering tongue, when this 

poor, 412 
List of friends, I would not enter on 
my, 463 

sweets into your, 204 

ye landsmen, 346 



Listen for the weakest word, to, 293 

you can look or, 152 
Listened more, is, 105 
Listens once will listen twice, who, 328 
Listening ear, undulates upon the, 52 

senates hang upon thy tongue, 1 1 

senates to command, n 

to somebody, somebody's, 373 
Listless woman, O, 33 
Litanies of nations came, 24 
Litany, sing the lovers', 242 
Littering with unfolded silks, 361 
Little as a fool, 137 

Breeches, and thar sot, 404 

chimney, he is a, 50 

dogs and all, 95 

done, so much to do, so, 94 

earth, give him a, 29 

else to do, hoarse with having, 9 

employment, hand of, 70 

fears grow great, where, 238 

fire grows great, 132 

fire is quickly trodden out, 131 

fires, to sit by, 132 

here, teaches us, 179 

isle so, 113 

is this too, 336 

learning is a dangerous thing, 215 

love me, 234 

men, to live in narrow ways with, 
276 

one, a Hottentot 's great toe or, 266 

ones, eat up the, 133 

our hoard is, 175 

philosophy, a, 14 

said is soonest mended, 260 

some times so, 172 

thing, 't is a, 43s 

to earn, there 's, 132 

while we have to stay, 77 

who think too, 396 

wind, grows great with, 132 

wrong, do a, 213 
Live, 227, 228 

again, of those immortal dead who, 
So 

all alone shall, 331 

and die, by which we, 30 

and if to, 185 

and it helps you, 129 

as they lived, 128 

but never, 26 

but only they have privilege to, 424 

by making tarts, cooks must, 63 

by toil, he that will not, 409 

cleanly as a nobleman should do, 
346 

fools, men may, 138 

glad did I, 163 

impossible I should, 82 

in narrow ways with little men, to, 
276 

in peace, adieu, 292 

in such a row, to, 290 

in thy pain, thou shalt, 69 

in thy heart, will, 1 74 



Index 



621 



Live 

in vain, poor man would, 81 

like venom, which, 424 

marvel how the fishes, 133 

must please to, 307 

on, the brave, 66 

on, yet brokenly, 172 

or die, survive or perish, 366 

or die for Dixie, 94 

our noble king, long, 201 

save means to, 223 

so I have my cigar, S3 

taught us how to, 91 

that she may, 189 

the means whereby I, 223 

to fight another day, 130 

to fight again, shall, 130 

together, cannot, 5 

to more virtue than doth, 427 

to please, we that, 307 

to see the day, we may not, 159 

we how we can, 89 

well is to work well, to, 460 

while you, drink, 100 

who better, than we, 376 

with cheese and garlic, I had rather, 
399 

with ease, and, 107 

with her, her mother came to, 270 

with me, come, 235 

with me, wilt thou, 375 

without dining, the man that can, 
63 

with thee, to, 237 

with the living, will it not, 185 
Lived, 228 

and loved, and I have, 221 

and loved, I've, 221 

and toiled with men, I have, 359 

because he has, 54 

I have, 221 

live as they, 128 

long enough, I have, 223 

my life, I have, 221 

on the river Dee, 262 

she at its close. 105 

the soul enchanted, 374 

to-day, I have, 408 

while the beast, 226 

with no other thought, she, 246 
Livelier plaything gives his youth, 49 
Livelong day, the, 73 
Lively to severe, from, 162 
Liver, and let my, 264 
Liveried angels lackey her, 47 
Livery, 228 

in her sober, 116 

of hell, the cunning, 178 

of the burnished sun, 60 
Lives, 228 

after them, 116 

all that, 89 

along the line, and, 380 

and dies in single blessedness, 342 

are cursed, with which our, 339 

are incomplete, our, 79 



Lives 

at the Queen 's command, gave up 
their, 373 

before, than their, 105 

breathes, labours, fights, 176 

but human creatures', 226 

but reason, 327 

by the moans of their heart, 398 

he most, 227 

immortal, who, 191 

immortal Lord, 235 

in Paternoster Row, the proprietor, 
296 

longer, competency, 393 

make what all their, 450 

no more, to our purposes he, 278 

of great men, 138 

of most, in the, 140 

of these good men, the, 301 

our pilot still, yet, 231 

pledge to each other our, 307 

religion, and feels herself at home, 
330 

so these, 339 

sublime, make our, 138 

that ye led were mine, 349 

to leaven lowly, 219 

to show that still she, 143 

two, bound fast in one, 224 

we might have led, 179 

we pay, our, 177 

yet waste men 's, 208 
Liveth not in fierce desire, it, 237 
Living, 229 

aloud, his song was only, 374 

as life is to the, 77 

a year or two after one is dead, 42? 

breath, who draw, 114 

foretold of all the, 228 

had no roofe, who, 183 

Homer, through which the, 183 

honest as any man, 183 

if thou withdraw in silence from 
the, 86 

it is for us, the, 276 

let us, the, 276 

live with the, 185 

one, not in Corinth a, 63 

rock, cut from the, 73 
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, 179 
Load a falling man, 121 

bent like us, beneath the, 370 

kings a useless heavy, 202 

would sink a navy, a, 2 78 
Loads of learned lumber, 30 
Loaf of bread, a, 85 

to steal a shive, of a cut, 435 
Loafe, 229 

Loafing around the throne, than, 404 
Loam, of earth we make, 421 
Loan oft loses, 31 
Loathe all men, I, 259 

we both may, 409 

without knowing why, 176 
Loathed melancholy, hence, 258 
Loathing critics and cold water, 308 



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Index 



Loaves, seven halfpenny, 130 

Lobster boiied, and like a, 260 

Lobster-pot, leaking like a, 215 

Local jealousies and pride, no 

Lochaber, 229 

Lochinvar, 229 

Lock, crying at the, 443 

of hay, went to pieces like a, 166 

the latticed gate, 34s 

without a key, is but a, 438 
Locke, Rufa studying, 410 
Locked in yard, yard, 347 

my heart in a case o' gowd, I 'd, 231 

up in steel, 12 
Locking of the door, the, 91 
Lockjaw, error dies of, 415 
Locks, 229 

are like the snow, your, 311 

bars and solitude, 318 

or youth 's bright, 354 

played familiar with his hoary, 288 

shaking her invincible, 277 

thy knotted and combined, 380 

were like the raven, your, 311 

were white, his, 357 

when banks dispense with bolts and, 
216 
Locomotive, if she is run over by a, 415 
Lodge, 229 
Lodgers, there had been many other, 

296 
Lodging, wife and children, 187 
Lodgings, 229 

for rain or shine, he took, 21 

in a head, such as take, 57 
Loftiness of thought, in, 309 
Lofty of purpose, 54 

port, his was the, 316 
Logic, 230 

absolute, that can with, 162 

with irresistible. 314 

vociferated, kills me quite, 284 
Logical way, built in such a, 46 
Logs, 230 

into the hall, 190 
London pride, a, 316 
London 's column pointing to the 
skies, 59 

voice, Get money, money still, 266 
Lone, 230 

sea so, 113 

whose lonely life is not so, 384 
Loneliness, 230 
Lonely land, in that, 184 

'twas, so, 154 
Lonesome road, one that on a, 128 
Long and lank and brown, thou art, 
253 

and nothing, 114 

and wish to be a subject, 202 

art is, 163 

as merry as the day is, 261 

been dead, some have, 75 

be so, as, 75 

days that were as, 74 

descent, claims of, 148 



Long live our noble king, 201 

long kiss, a, 204 

long night away, 105 

long thoughts, are, 33 

nor that little, 249 

nor wants that little, 249 

not well married that lives married, 
254 

of it, the short and the, 361 

or a kiss too, 203 

orations, make no, 32 

potations, banish, 32 

sometimes .so, 172 

spoon, must have a, 87 

so you love me, 234 

that never finds the day, night is, 
282 

when it talks too, 396 
Long-ago, 230 

Long-drawn aisle, through the, 10 
Longed to be, where he, 163 

to be a king, never subject, 202 

to slumber beside him, 163 
Longer grown, are a little, 429 

I stay a little, 108 

than anything else than their ears, 
300 

wait a little, 159 

would have mourned, 20 
Longing, a feeling of sadness and, 375 

and a nameless, 109 

lingering look, one, 139 

the restless unsatisfied, 109 

unexpressed, fear and hope and, 
234 
Longings, 230 

after something lost, 88 

died to all earthly, 91 

yearning, strivings, 156 
Look, 230 

a gift-horse in the mouth, 151 

a lean and hungry, 126 

and a voice, only a, 360 

back, speak and, 307 

but in, 137 

by his, detect, 306 

down, when the patient stars, 384 

down upon you from the Pyra- 
mids, 322 

give me a, 364 

here, upon this picture, 303 

into happiness, to, 170 

like you, to, 452 

not like the inhabitants o' the 
earth, 448 

of despairing, the daring, 86 

one longing lingering, 139 

on her face, 128 

or listen, you can, 152 

rose with a dignified, 22 

the, the air, 377 

there was a manhood in his, 252 

the same, which she turned, 393 

to avenge even a, 50 

to have, I must not, 223 

to his bond, 29 



Index 



623 



Look 

upon a lion, to, 393 

upon your lord, never, 395 

yes last night, why I pray, 468 
Looked, 230 

sighed and, 363 

but they, 242 

down to blush, she, 371 

for, when you 're, 59 

up to sigh, she, 371 
Looking at goods, men lingering and, 
266 

at the prize, when, 342 

lazy at the sea, 392 

ill prevail, 294 
Looks arter his folks, 356 

at least two distinct, 455 

at nation, nation wildly, 115 

beyond the strife, he, 432 

not their beauteous, 201 

of love, virgin 's sidelong, 234 

peace of God was in his, 75 

puts on his pretty, 1 65 

quite through the deeds of men, 126 

than thy, 108 

the whole world in the face, 292 

through nature, but, 278 

to come, his wit invites you by his. 
447 

to thy dim eyes a stain, 198 

were women 's, 118 

with bold, stern, 119 
Look'st thou so, why, 5 
Looming bastion fringed with fire, 19 
Loon, crazy as a, 286 
Loose behaviour, check on, 108 

the bulldog 's grip, only crowbars, 
40 

unless he 's, 393 
Loosed the fateful lightning, he hath, 

153 
Loosened and let down this brutal jaw, 

195 
Lopped away, must be, 148 
Lopping, 230 
Lord, 230, 231 

affirmed that black was white, 66 

alone of man, or think thee, 463 

among wits, had been a, 447 

and clown, master of, 103 

and praise the, 36s 

as duke or, 248 

be thankit, sae the, 257 

but lives immortal, 235 

dear to the heart of our, 160 

due to the Moor my, 189 

forgi'e me for lying, the, 244 

for the saints and for the, 395 

for thou, O, 84 

God made, the thing the, 402 

God of Hosts, 139 

graceless traitor to her loving, 454 

I pray the, my soul to keep, 370 

is crucified, till his, 34 

is found, wheresoe'er such, 184 

Jehovah, Jove or, 127 



Lord 

knows, his verse the, 424 

knows where, or the, 284 

love us, 11 

never look upon your, 395 

of all, love will still be, 237 

of all things, great. 462 

or lady, with mien of, 325 

our, to see, 470 

redeemed and white before the, 358 

say Amen, 429 

shall raise me up, the, 406 

the coming of the, 153 

the judgments of the, 199 

thy husband is thy, 189 

was nigher, she knowed the, 50 

will aid us, 38 
Lord 's anointed, the, 10 

anointed, I am the, 108 

house, and go in to the, 365 
Lords, 231 

and gentlemen, dead, 75 

and rulers, O masters, 147 

of our own hands, 141 

of the creation, called the, 259 

only a wit among, 447 

princes and, are but the breath of 
kings, 183 

princes and, may flourish, 300 
Lordship was made Baron Vaux, 

since his, 423 
Lordships pleasure, on their, 71 
Lore, a prescient, 315 

sunset of life gives me mystical, 358 

volume of forgotten, 261 
Lorn creetur, I am a lone, 230 
Lose, 231 

a brute, 38 

a pint of blood from your veins, 
better to, 280 

at the other, they, 135 

by overrunning, and, 292 

his edge, doth, 206 

it, it don't take twice to, 46 

it all, to win or. 126 

lest they their rights should, 311 

me, neglect me, 378 

myself in the infinite main, I, 247 

or conquer, go, 150 

our ventures, 69 

that too, may I never, 331 

the good, make us, 97 

their nature, seem at once to, 413 

them all, sad and you, 152 

then, if he, 273 

to watch and then to, 19 

what he fears to, 452 

who would, 90 

you, I would not, 238 
Loses both itself and friend, 31 

that it works for, 183 

what gains or, 306 
Losing all its grossness, by, 424 

and the other, 306 

his wits, e'en with, 245 

office, hath but a, ?8i 



624 



Index 



Losing rendered sager, till by, 429 
Loss, 231 

best knoweth its own, 163 

but for its, 407 

is common, that, 1 

must be the pain supreme, its, 234 

of a leg, for the, 434 

of use, I rather dread the, 421 

of wealth is loss of dirt, the, 360 

ours is the bitterest, 1 

to do our country, 185 

whose, might leave the soul, 120 
Losses, and so may, 379 

there are gains for all our, 470 
Lost, 231 

a day, I 've, 73 

all good to me is, 186 

an English gun, nor ever, 167 

and if 'tis, 455 

and the spoil we, 451 

and won, when the battle's, 257 

and worn, sooner, 454 

at sea, than ever were, 354 

battle, in the, 83 

better to have loved and, 242 

but once your prime, having, 254 

by which the printers have, 31 

chord divine, that one, 5 1 

forever, if its undying guest be, 377 

for evermore, shattered, dishonour- 
ed, 107 

for honour, 299 

in air, mine will not all be, 125 

in the other, one was, 339 

in the sweets, is, 395 

I too have loved and, 117 

longings after something, 88 

my reputation, I have, 332 

lost! lost, 73 

Mark Antony the world, who, 452 

no friend, and who, 385 

no good work is ever, 460 

so, so fallen, 121 

swallowed and, 90 

the immortal part of myself, 332 

their voices are, 339 

the toil we, 451 

the winning softness of their sex 
is, 357 

to be swallowed up and, 228 

to sight, th' ecstatic lark above, 210 

we have loved and, 179 

who deliberates is, 85 

without a sigh, 434 
Lot, a weary, is thine, 402 

be cast, mortal, howe'er thy, 228 

labour shall be my, 104 

may be, whate'er my, 125 

might be, whiche'er their, 414 

of all, have but the, 202 

peace my, 35 

the blameless vestal's, 140 

'tis the common, 59 

whate'er thy, 341 
Loth to wear it out, as being, 446 
Lothario, 231 



Lotos closes, never the, 113 
Loud again, now pealing, 52 

alike, all, 102 

as welcomes, now, 52 

laugh, the, 211 

roared the dreadful thunder, 26 
Louder, a little, 49 

shrieks, not, 362 

still, clear and sonorous, 52 
Loud-hissing, bubbling and, 116 
Louisville, Mr. Billings of, 346 
Lout who 'd shirk, the, 248 
Love, 231-242 

a bright particular star, should, 384 

acts of kindness and of, 201 

a kiss of youth and, 204 

alas too long, a world we, 443 

a naughty man, did Katy, 200 

and bliss immortal reign, scenes 
where, 27 

and care, I cannot drift beyond his, 
43 

and glory that may raise, 293 

and health to all, 172 

and joy and sorrow learn, 48 

and knowledge of you, I shall desire 
more, 462 

and matrimony, of courtship, 255 

and not to, more painful still, 243 

and obey, bound to serve, 456 

and peace combine, when friend- 
ship, 442 

and service to you evermore, in, 192 

and shame, forespent with, 457 

and truth, dreams of, 88 

and woe, the canticles of, 24 

an oyster may be crossed in, 293 

an' youth, who ventered life an', 19 

as I do thee, and courts his, 254 

a spring of, 27 

as you loved me then, 392 

a train, they, 448 

bewrays more woe, silence in, 364 

but one day, I dearly, 74 

but only her, 85 

can hope, 185 

can I beg in your, 378 

can less hide his, 119 

crossed in hopeless, 66 

'em, he couldn't, 363 

endures no tie, 302 

esteem and, 158 

eternal joy and everlasting, 452 

everything that 's old, I, 290 

exalted youth, 65 

fair looks, 189 

first leaves, 175 

for Charlotte, Werther had a, 439 

God is, 155 

God, thou art, 155 

goes calling up and down, 290 

gold, in these are sunk, 193 

hail, wedded, 437 

hate hath no harm for, 300 

have all his rites, till, 407 

herself and the woman I, 274 



Index 



625 



his country, that will not, 65 

his labour, who does not, 208 

his work, needs must, 247 

honour, and obey, 45 

how wayward is this foolish, 341 

hymns of gratitude and, 173 

if music be the food of, 273 

I know his goodness and his, 160 

in every gesture dignity and, 161 

in her attire doth show her wit, my, 

20 
in rhyme, as much, 336 
in search of a word, music is, 273 
in which my hound has part, 187 
is clay, thy, 55 
is done, when, 281 
is loveliest, and, 398 
is not in our choice, 86 
is of the valley, 422 
is worth a million, thy, 292 
it, I love it, 12 
it breeds, the, 206 
it is a manacle of, 251 
it like a child, 169 
it might be full of, 462 
it nurtures a deep and honest, 173 
its whole wealth of, 173 
lest that thy, 268 
like ours can never die, 242 
life, dost thou, 407 
light, truth and, 403 
looks not with the eyes, 69 
looks with the mind, 69 
made bold, by, 277 
may live without, 63 



moody food of us that trade in, 273 

most tenderly, that which they, 322 

must die for, 384 

my, adieu for evermore, 3 

my friend, plain, blunt man that, 

291 
my neighbour, and, 413 
never doubt I, 97 
nor, nor fear, 367 
not a gaping pig, 304 
not man the less, but nature more, 

277 
not smiles around, where universal, 

43 
obedience, 223 
O fire, O, 204 
of God, all end in, 269 
of good, the common, 160 
of life, that, 224 

of life appears, the greatest, 224 
of man, in love of God and, 269 
of money, the, 267 
of my whole course of, 396 
of truth and right, ring in the, 418 
of woman, to thee the, 354 
of women, alas the, 455 
o' life's young day, forget the, 222 
once pleads, when, 85 



Love 

one jot of former, 296 

one name, made life and, 454 

or enmity, works of, 381 

or hate, extreme in, 449 

or hate, hide his, 119 

or jealousy, away at once with. 19s 

or thrones without, tents with, 85 

perhaps 'twas boyish, 33 

pity melts the mind to, 305 

pity swells the tide of, 305 

pity 's akin to, 305 

prayers of, 160 

presume too much upon my, 315 

right to dissemble your, 93 

shall win my, 201 

she never told her, 298 

sincere, his, 29 

sings, like a soul beatified of, 210 

slights it, 77 

soft eyes looked, 334 

so kind, she wooed with, 449 

so well, hand I, 169 

so's my, 310 

teach me to, 260 

tears for his, 7 

that's linked with gold, the, 203 

that we might once have saved, 434 

the ambition in my, 384 

the ardent flame of, 339 

the beaxity of the pure, 145 

the bridal time of law and, 300 

thee and hate thee, I, 327 

thee, Cassio, I, 289 

thee, constrained to, no 

thee, dear, so much, I could not, 184 

thee evermore, and, 124 

thee, I do not, Doctor Fell, 327 

thee still, I, no 

the flowers and fruits of, 223 

the language, I, 210 

the man who . . . has the largest 

capacity of loving, 243 
the pangs of despised, 323 
the paths lead to a woman 's, 305 
the very charms that wake his, 342 
the words of, 258 
th' offender, yet detest th' offence, 

289 
thou a heavenly, 157 
thou owest me thy, 292 
thy heart can gain, if fond, 456 
thyself last, 48 

to, and not be loved again, 243 
to be wroth with one we, 412 
to business that we, 40 
to hatred turned, no rage like, 324 
to know, to esteem, to, 221 
to me, add, 443 
to share, her life and, 450 
unfit, for ladies', 20 
us, and a prayer for those who, 363 
was law, and, 214 
we both may loathe or, 409 
we cannot fight for, 457 
wedlock without, 438 



626 



Index 



Love 

were firm, or that their, 45s 

when one is truly in, 3 

whom none can, 26 

wi' his, he did deave me, 458 

will not clip him, 4 

wine, a little breath, 274 

with, think with the intensity we, 

402 
with love, must cure, 88 
without her, 443 
woman wakes to, 124 
works of faith and, 267 
you so well, sweetheart, I, 275 
your true, 57 

young, likes to knock, 338 
Loved, 242 

again, to love and not to be, 243 

and eat, and, 228 

and here unmated, here, 374 

and I have lived and, 221 

and lost, I too have, 117 

and lost, we have, 179 

as to be, 425 

at home, that makes her, 352 

but one, sighed to many though he, 

363 
but you, I never, 456 
by me, than to love and be, 246 
Caesar less, not that I, 41 
'er her, fur I, 241 
her, and I, 363 

her, if I had a friend that, 363 
her that they died for her, so, 416 
him the best, the woman who, 132 
how, 334 

I not honour more, 184 
I have, 221 
I 've lived and, 221 
Lavinia therefore must be, 453 
lean kine are to be, 126 
me, as Caesar, 7 
me for the dangers, she, 363 
me weel. young Jamie, 68 
my books, I. 31 
none without hope e'er, 185 
one, alas for the, 153 
one, and that, 363 
one face there you, 290 
ones who 've crossed, 339 
only what were worth your love, 232 
or was avenged like me, 15 
Rome more, I, 41 
sae kindly, 37 
some we, 333 
so well, of him he, 154 
spot, and every, 49 
thee, ocean, I have, 288 
thee once, I, 232 
thee so long, that hath, 215 
the heart that has truly, 393 
the place of old, hearts that, 175 
thou would'st be, 236 
though not less, 408 
till at her breast the child of him 

she, 454 



Loved 

to hear, the names he, 252 

truth, many, 416 

who once has, 117 

with a love that was more than love, 
236 

women not clothes were, 456 
Loveliest and the best, the, 333 
Love-light in her eye, the, 117 

in your eye, 387 
Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of 

ornament, 3 
Lovely woman, woman, 452 
Lover, 242 

bears, of all the plagues a, 339 

in her first passion woman loves 
her, 232 

no true, 56 

of peace, 432 

of the good, but thou, meek, 159 

repentance to her, 136 

some banished, 216 

to gratify thy, 100 

true, seeks to steal a, 304 

weary, 33 

yet, affliction taught a, 139 
Lover 's lute, the little rift within the, 
337 

or a Roman's part, to act a, 236 

pinch, as a, 79 

staff, hope is a, 186 
Lovers, 242, 243 

of virtue, all that are, 10 

rather more than seamen, pity, 
389 

the lips of lying, 384 

two, whispering by an orchard wall, 
22 

yet thy true, 408 

young without, 462 
Lovers' meetings, journeys end in, 198 

perjuries, at, 302 

perjury, Jove but laughs at, 302 

tongues by night, silver-sweet 
sound, 412 
Love's beginning, a kiss at, 203 

cousin, selfishness, 356 

embraces met, that ever since in, 
294 

first snowdrop, 203 

persistency, secret of, 117 

prick and Rosalind, must find, 343 

sighs, tempered with, 308 

wild prayer, as, 366 
Loves, 243 

and graces, an angel-guard of, 452 

hated by one he, 15 

himself, who, 419 

I prize, whose, 69 

is love, all she, 232 

me, and my love, 23s 

me, because I know my love, 235 

never on earth again, 117 

not wine, woman and song, who, 
444 

on to the close, as truly, 393 



Index 



627 



Loves 

the poor, he who ordained the Sab- 
bath, 310 

to lie with me, 165 

weeds, he who, 135 
Love-song, with a, 118 
Lovest, 243 
Loveth all, he made and, 314 

best, he prayeth best, who, 314 

most, he serves thee best, who, 314 

well, he prayeth well, who, 313 
Loving, 243 

are the daring, the, 34 

of pretty Cis, 203 

so faithful, so, 97 

that old arm-chair, 12 

virtue, in, 347 
Low as high he soared, 7 

for murder, comes kind o', 272 

has married Mr. R , Nancy, 

53 

her breathing soft and, 36 

hymn of the, 61 

if you speak love, speak, 239 
Lower, can fall no, 97 

deep, in the lowest deep a, 178 

night is beginning to, 50 

sphere, pledge of a, 179 

the proud, and, 141 

to his level day by day, 56 
Lowest deep, in the, 178 
Lowing herd winds slowly, 69 
Lowliness is young ambition 's ladder, 

7 
Lowly, must work their passage, poor 

and, 176 
Lown, he called the tailor, 3S7 
Loyalty, 243 

Lubberland, though a whole celes- 
tial, 416 
Lubricates business, dinner, 92 
Lucca, with oil from, 349 
Lucifer, he falls like, 122 
Lucifer's attaint, since, 316 
Luck, 244 

at last, one may have better, 464 

in odd numbers, there 's, 286 

in such a storm, for our good, 388 

one constant element in, 307 

should turn, if, 319 
Luckless millions do, what will those, 
75 

time, aboding, 25 
Lucky, 244 

hit, seem a, 67 
Lucy, so he called upon, 338 
Lugged bear, melancholy as a ... , 

258 
Lukewarm hearts, clay-cold heads, 298 
Lulls the dead, the dreamless sleep 

that, 468 
Lumber, loads of learned, 30 
Lumberer, like the blows of a, 3 14 
Lump is bad, the poor in a, 310 

of salt, might the, 465 
Lunch, to finish off my, 321 



Lungs receive our air, if their, 368 

with an inflammation of the, 198 
Lurching through the spray, 54 
Lure it back, shall, 465 
Lurks in every flower, 77 

where danger or dishonour, 443 
Lust and plunder, 143 

in man, there's a, 351 

of booty, the, 171 

of gold, narrowing, 158 

of office, whom the, 259 
Lustre in his eye, there was. 351 
Lute is broken, when the, 209 

the lascivious pleasing of a, 432 

the little rift within the, 337 
Luxury of doing good, learn the, 159 
Lydian airs, lap me in soft, 394 
Lying, 244 

better thou and I were. 108 

so easy by half as, 151 

so straightly in an icy calm, 80 

the steed beneath is, 90 

would that we two were, 108 
Lyre, 244 

waked to ecstasy the living, 109 



M 



Macairs, real Turpins and, 325 
Macbeth raving at that shade-made 

blade, 115 
Macduff, lay on, 214 
MacGregor, my name is, 138 
Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Nick, 281 
Machine, blow up the infernal, 403 

that makes it, and the, 467 
Machinery of the State, the whole, 33 
Machree, widow, och hone, 441 
Mackerel, cheap as stinking, 47 
Mad, 244, 245 

and a' should gae, 440 

an undevout astronomer is, 14 

as Ajax, this love is as, 238 

as he was, Old Brown, 401 

fitter being sane than, 159 

if they behold a cat, 304 

it was, how sad and bad and, 394 

marriage never was before, such a, 

253 
not poetry but prose run, 309 
or I am, 98 
Maddened John the Baptist, a kind of, 

114 
Maddening as her light, and, 344 
Madding crowd 's ignoble strife, 68 
Made, and from his ashes may be, 426 
and loveth all, he, 314 
and preserved us a nation, 276 
as fast as they are, 407 
at me through the press, 427 
Baron Vaux, his lordship was, 423 
but those which love has, 233 
for, what was love, 236 
for, what were they, 326 
him, every man is as God hath 249 
him, thou hast, 104 



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Index 



Made in heaven, marriages are, 253 

me, nobody never, 166 

merely for money-making, not, 267 

of the same clay, 201 

out of nothing, nothing can be, 28s 

the heart, who, 172 

them so, God hath, 95 

the thing the Lord God, 402 

to die, was not, 104 

to mourn, man was, 271 

us, offend the eye of him who, 107 

us men, great Nature, 259 

way for liberty and died, 217 

with his hand the vessel, 107 

ye one, her sweet I will has, 290 
Madest man, thou, 104 
Madly strikes against it, 2$ 
Madman stares, when a, 50 
Madmen, 245 

have such seething brains, lovers 
and, 243 
Madness, 245 

in the brain, doth work like, 412 

of many, party is the, 297 

only makes them go faster, 403 

to defer, 'tis, 84 
Msander 's banks when death is nigh, 

on, 273 
Maelstrom, straight for the, 102 
Magazine, 245 
Maggie and I are out, 53 

will have no rival, if, 339 
Maggotship, may parade your, 108 
Magic o'er my way, flung, 148 

of a name, the, 2 74 

of the sea, and the, 360 

sails, argosies of, 59 
Magical art, no, 72 
Magistrate, 245 

and king, 143 
Magistrates, people governed by 

grave, 59 
Magnanimity of thought, in all the, 

251 
Magnanimous mouse, or most, 422 
Magnet, 245 

Magnificence, in calm, 353 
Magnificent and awful cause, 12 

in Stamboul, 408 
Magnitude, thou liar of the first, 217 
Mahomet's, 'tis, 330 
Maid, 246 

and many a, 71 

at your window, and I a, 422 

a weary lot is thine, fair, 402 

be good, sweet, 374 

mother or bride or, 113 

no German, 151 

or some captive, 216 

sweet, bride-bed to have decked, 36 

the ways of a man with a, 187 

to see her sparrow part, a, 398 

to the sweetest, 39s 

trots hard with a young, 407 

was young, when music, heavenly, 
272 



Maiden, 246 

fair to see, 24 

laughed out, the, 440 

lays her skaith to me, nae, 456 

meditation, fancy free, in, 257 

nor wife nor, 449 

sword, fleshed thy, 395 

true betrayed for gold, 15 

with white fire laden, that orbed, 
268 
Maiden 's breast, who could win, 83 

veil, of a, 219 
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught 
by glare, 270 

watching said, all her, 76 
Maids, a malady most incident to, 316 

are May when they are maids, 457 

matrons, 368 

must kiss no men, 202 

must marry, young, 203, 254 

will not lip him, 4 

would far whiter be, 321 
Mail train, engine-driver of broad- 
gauge, 315 
Mailed, in sombre harness, 87 
Maimed among, the spent and, 290 
Main, 247 

chance, care o' th', 46 

flood, bid the, 135 

from out the azure, 37 

o'er life 's solemn, 138 

thou hollow-sounding and mys- 
terious, 354 
Maintain, and knowing dare, 385 

them, they have rights who dare, 
338 
Maintained its man, every rood of 

ground, 166 
Maintenance, and for thy, 189 
Majestic though in ruin, 85 
Majesty, dead, your, 75 

in, the next, 309 

in death, virtue alone has, 81 

rising in cloudy, 268 

stoops from his high, 108 

the attribute to awe and, 260 

this earth of, 112 
Majority, 247 
Make a man, and cannot, 179 

and doth the bodie, 377 

a note of, when found, 285 

believe, though you, 82 

'em good and stout, 292 

everything of it, 64 

her light and small, to, 208 

her, nothing can, 240 

her straight and tall, to, 208 

it go, there 's go in it and he '11, 467 

law, and not to, 198 

no more noise with it, 273 

out nothink on it, I couldn't, 314 

ready, up Guards, 166 

sure, says he, to, 286 

them, a breath can, 300 

the meat it feeds on, 195 

the most of it, if this be treason, 414 



Index 



629 



Make the most of what, 103 

the one verse for the other 's sake, 
335 

the thing, he '11, 467 

. . . two blades of grass to grow, 
162 

vows and break them still, 429 

war, one of them would, 43 1 

way for liberty, 217 

what a fool of yourself with your 
whistle you'd, 440 

what all their lives, why should 
they, 450 

with them, meddle or, 401 

yourselves another, 118 
Maker, 247 

he serveth his, 181 

just, presence of a, 115 

the image of his, 7 
Makes, 247 

a solitude and calls it peace, he, 373 

a supper, this night he, 393 

it, of him that, 196 

it so, but thinking, 402 

night hideous, and, 282 

no friend, he, 145 

no sign, dies and, 91 

the man, worth, 465 

who, who sells, who buys, 311 
Maketh mankind, nuptial love, 232 
Making night hideous, 268 

whiskey, as well as, 440 
Malady, 247 

most incident to maids, a, 316 
Malcontent, like a, 239 
Male tiger, than there is milk in a, 260 

when she walks with a, 363 
Malefactor, some monstrous, 41 
Males, agree in conceding to all, 455 
Malice, 247 

and with well-concocted, 283 

domestic, foreign levy, 223 

in my breath, and spend my, 402 

set down aught in, 117 

that belied him, 122 

toward none, with, 337 
Malthns, 247 
Mammon, 247, 248 

before the altar of, 253 

this filthy marriage-hindering, 470 

wins his way, and, 270 
Mammoth, till the skull of an old, 141 
Mammy yet, to tak' me frae my, 254 
Man, 248-251 

a, pays to the public, 46 

a bold, bad, 29 

abridgment o ( all . . . pleasant in, 1 

a debtor to his profession every, 
318 

a good quality in a, 70 

a habit in a, 167 

all promise is poor dilatory, 318 

all save the spirit of, 426 

all that may become a, 72 

all the good from the heart of a, 49 

alone, to, 237 



Man 

a lost and lonely, 328 

a most incomparable, 160 

and a positivist, then he was a, 311 

and bird and beast, both, 313 

and nation, once to every, 83 

and nature scorn the shocking hat, 
171 

and wife, like peevish, 376 

and woman, good name in, 275 

arms and the, 13 

art thou a, 182 

as free as nature first made, 350 

as much to all intents, 75 

a soldier's a, 100 

a woman ruled, a, 449 

been done, what has by, 94 

be cold, though, 442 

before thy mother, scarce be a, 270 

before your mother, strive still to 
be a, 270 

being reasonable, 193 

bird, beast are but beast, 316 

blest be the, 29 

blush, to make, 434 

but pitied the, 353 

by man, forth in the van, 151 

by man the world would damn it- 
self, 198 

by nothing is so well betrayd, 150 

called the rights of, 338 

can die but once, 89 

can fasten on a, 42s 

can half-control his doom, 338 

can have at stake, 143 

cannot be strict, a, 60 

cannot make a, 179 

can pray unbidden, a, 312 

can raise, the stateliest building, 
19s 

childhood shows the, 49 

Christian is the highest style of, 51 

civilized, cannot live without cooks, 
63 

contend to the uttermost, let a, 318 

contract so strong appetite for 
emetics, 109 

dare, I dare, what, 72 

did Katy love a, 200 

dissuading you, whenever you hear 
a, 302 

doth safely rule, no, 287 

father of the, 49 

dreaded of, 87 

dreams of fame, 124 

eloquent, that old, 108 

every, must be guaranteed his lib- 
erty, 338 

every, -with him, 324 

except the soul of, 357 

extremes in, 117 

for the field, 454 

for the sword, 454 

gently scan your brother, 188 

happy the, 408 

has, the more goods a, 279 



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Index 



Man 

has an axe to grind, 15 

has his fault, every, 128 

has seldom an offer of kindness, 315 

heaven had made her such a, 363 

he is oft the wisest, 446 

he seems of cheerful yesterdays, 48 

he was the mildest-mannered, 262 

here Res the, 294 

if Jesus Christ is a, 196 

immortal, rationally brave, 191 

in all the world 's new fashion 

planted, 303 
in Christendom, never a, 119 
in debt, poor is the, 82 
in his wrath, than the strong, 413 
in love of God and love of, 269 
in me, I had not so much of, 399 
in nothing trust that, 62 
in the lip than in the heart of, 14 
in the parliament of, 433 
in wit, a, 252 

is, know what God and, 13s 
is a carnivorous production, 256 
is bound to do, 105 
is cursed alway, by, 366 
is growing, while, 81 
is his own star, 127 
I should avoid, 126 
I should like to see any kind of a, 

255 „ 
is man and master, 141 

is more than Constitutions, 213 

is not alive, that, 332 

is not man as yet. 318 

is not to be judged by man, 198 

it does not feel for, 38 

i' the mire, which ne'er left, 435 

I was not good enough for, 56 

labourin', an' labourin' woman, 208 

less than a span, the life of, 461 

like me troubles himself little, a, 259 

made thee to temper, 452 

made the town, 64 

made us citizens, before, 259 

makes a death, 81 

makes heaven or hell for a, 242 

makes his own statue, each, 322 

marks the earth with ruin, 288 

may cry, church, church, 52 

may serve seven years, where a, 434 

may write the thing he will, 221 

means evil, no, 87 

misery acquaints a, 21 

more sinned against than sinning, 

366 
must play a part, a stage where 

every, 463 
nature formed but one such, 359 
never a law of God or, 212 
never is but always to be blessed, 

186 
nothing yet been contrived by, 192 
of age, thou smitest sore, 372 
of an unbounded stomach, a, 388 
of comfort, a, 93 



Man 

of God, a little, round, fat, oily, 289 

of mettle, grasp it like a, 280 

of morals, tell me why, 10 1 

of my kidney, a, 201 

of nasty ideas, a nice man is a, 281 

of sense, your tailor is a, 396 

of such a book of follies in a, 449 

of wisdom is the man of years, 445 

one, in his time, 383 

one wrong more to, 467 

or think thee lord alone of, 463 

or woman or suckling, 113 

picked out of ten thousand, 183 

posthumous, 115 

pour this concealed, 383 

prevailed above the magistrate, 24s 

proposes, but God disposes, 155 

really loves a woman, if a, 243 

reckon with this, 147 

recovered of the bite, the, 95 

resembled thee, that, 228 

salt that seasons right to, 312 

shall learn, till, 330 

she set herself to, 273 

she tried on, 211 

should dread, of all the foes that, 21 

should have them, that, 298 

should know, more than mortal, 277 

should undo a, 295 

show the world, let any, 461 

some proud son of, 410 

so near is God to, 104 

so various, a, 114 

such master, such, 255 

than the, 126 

that, may last, 26 

that blushes is not quite a brute, 28 

that can write, any, 216 

that died for men, on a, 104 

that hails you, the, 405 

that has never a shirt, a, 360 

that has not tried, lives a, 136 

that hath a tongue, that, 454 

that hath no music, the, 273 

that hopes for heaven, 40 

that large-moulded, 427 

that lays his hand upon a woman, 

66 
that meddles with cold iron, 302 
that mocks at it, the, 375 
that never feared, 181 
that once did sell, 226 
that same, that runnith awaie, 130 
that's marred, is a, 254 
that studieth revenge, a, 334 
that when his day is done, happy 

the, 62 
the apparel oft proclaims the, 11 
the common rights of, 413 
the half part of a blessed, 168 
the hermit sighed till woman smiled, 

450 
the image of his Maker, 7 
the less, but nature more, love not, 

277 



Index 



631 



Man 

the standard of the, 263 

the state of, 164 

there lived a, 228 

the strong, must go, 78 

the tongue o', can name, 457 

the ways of a, 187 

the wit of one, 320 

this bold, bad, 29 

though he felt as a, 346 

thou madest, 104 

thou shalt never die, 88 

thou wilt quarrel with a, 322 



to command, 454 
ave s 
176 



to have : 



a 4 f s i 



teen minutes of hell, 



to know, this truth, enough for, 427 

to make a, 191 

to man, 38 

to mend, for, 172 

trust not a, 83 

unto each, comes a day, 366 

upon this earth, every, 89 

vain insect, while, 176 

vindicate the ways of God to, 200 

was born for liberty, proclaims that, 
217 

was made to mourn, 271 

went mad and bit the, 95 

what is a, 189 

who . . . has the largest capacity 
of loving, 243 

who has the power and skill, the, 
450 

who is good enough, a, 383 

who kills a, 30 

who needlessly sets foot upon a 
worm, 463 

whose soul is pure and strong, a, 390 

who stole the livery, a, 228 

will do soonest for a, 34 

with eight trumps in his hand, 415 

with soul so dead, 65 

with the gallery of family portraits, 
_ 124 

with the head, 454 

worth makes the, 465 

would die, the, 90 

would live in vain, poor, 8 1 

you are to bid any, 422 

you forget the, 314 
Manacle, 251 

Manacled, not tied or, 381 
Manage the furnace, I, 386 
Managing committee, sort of, 92 
Man-child, truth's yet mightier, 115 
Mandalay, 251, 252 
Mandragora, give me to drink, 370 
Mane, and flowing each, 387 

laid his hand upon the ocean 's, 288 

laid my hand upon thy, 288 
Mange in swine, or, 306 
Mangle his merciful words, you, 365 
Manhood, 252 

a clearer faith and, 466 

dear, for what makes, 27 



Manhood _ 

for a bright, 119 

has left him, or that his, 309 

in glory, wails, 326 

more approbation, gives, 287 

never bought nor sold, the, 185 

old age past, youth, 155 

strife comes with, 390 

through, 58 

to the awful verge of, 143 
Manhood's noble head, o'er, 354 

solid earth, on, 250 
Mania prevailed, a, 379 
Man-in-God, is one with, 313 
Mankind, 252 

alike is perfected, when all, 318 

all think their little set, 28 

are equalized by death, 114 

brought woe to all, 449 

good will to all, 52 

is in some degree better, 54 

is man, the only science of, 250 

is man, the proper study of, 250 

misfortunes of, 180 

nuptial love maketh, 232 

respect to the opinions of, 356 

ring in redress to all, 328 

should cease to sin, 'twas best . . . , 
36s 

shut the gates of mercy on, 368 

that of all, 196 

the mere waste-paper of, 309 

the prayer of all, 313 

the wisest, brightest, meanest of, 
123 

would deserve better of, 162 
Mankind's epitome, all, 114 
Man-like is it to fall into sin, 365 
Manly brow consents to death, 152 

spirit, drown my, 381 
Manna, though his tongue dropped, 

122 
Manner born, to the, 70 

the pretty and sweet, 399 
Planners, 252 

and carriage, improving the, 253 

and fine sense, graced with polished, 
463 

and their ways, their, 66 

as by his, 150 

English minds and, no 

improves our parts with polished, 
234 

of the town, I '11 view the, 413 

old, old books,_ 290 
Mannikin feels his way, 15 
Mannish cowards have, as many other, 

394 
Manor, sir, the, 91 
Man 's apparel, disgrace my, 68 

as true as steel, my, 415 

blindfold eye, seems wrong to, 33? 

bred out, the strain of, 267 

brow, like to a title-leaf, 38 

face, as a nose on a, 285 

face, given to a, 219 



632 



Index 



Man's ingratitude, unkind as, 444 

feast, at any good, 23 

first disobedience, of, 93 

general infancy, begins, 318 

half sears, a, 398 

hat, lay my 'head to any good, 
214 

heart, bread which strengtheneth, 
35 

heart, nor venture to unmask, 328 

hobby-horse is as tender, a, 180 

house, a, is his castle, 44 

imperial race ensnare, tresses, 168 

inhumanity to man, 192 

life a thing apart, is of, 232 

life, how good is, 229 

life is but a jest, 219 

love, for a good, 238 

love is of man 's life a- thing apart, 
232 

mind to atheism, inclineth, 14 

obdurate heart, no flesh in, 38 

peril comes of bed, 2 1 

pie is freed, no, 8 

presumption on to-morrow 's dawn, 
411 

true touchstone, 41 

wickedness, a method in, 261 

worth something, a, 130 
Mansion call, back to its, 421 

strange, 418 

the door of the deserted, 91 

this cheerless, 182 

who kept up his old, 149 
Mansions, a hearth in her, 63 

be,_ where the many, 278 

build thee more stately, 376 

of the blest, in the, 221 
Mantle clad, the morn in russet, 269 

do cream and, 291 

of grey, from her, 269 

threw, her silver, 268 
Many, 252 

a crime deemed innocent on earth, 
66 

a Kate has done, than, 200 

a man hath more hair, 168 

a one has started forth, 321 

be glad and your friends are, 152 

doth give too much to, 141 

heads, beast with, 20 

people read a song, 462 

still must labour for the one, 207 

taxes when they're not too, no 

the madness of, 297 

the wisdom of, 320 

times before their deaths, 66 

things, to talk of, 430 

to keep, and, 132 
Many-headed multitude, the, 271 
Many-twinkling feet, muse of the, 129 
Maple, all crinkly like curled, 423 
Maps, 252 

for ports and piers, peering in, 444 
Mar the land, in weeds that, 355 

your fortunes, lest it may, 380 



Marble, 252 

sleep in dull, cold, 140 

wastes, the more the, 385 

with his name, 53 
Marbles, 252 
March are come, the ides of, 190 

beware the ides of, 190 

in a fortnight he might, 287 

nearer home, a day's, 278 

on the eighth day of, 348 

then, on we, 461 

up to a fortress, I can, 283 
Marched breast forward, 337 

round in front of a drum, 1 1 
Marching on, his truth is, 153 

on, while God is, 225 
Mare, 253 

Marge, till it lip the, 53 
Margin, through a meadow of, 293 
Marian pass him by, 4 
Mariner, 253 

curseth the warning bird, 319 
Mariners of England, ye, no 
Marjoram of the salad, the sweet, 179 
Mark and glass, the, 263 

and tell, nought to do but, 305 

death loves a shining, 8 1 _ 

grinding life down from its, 439 

him well, 65 

measures . . . have always been 
my, 256 

of a saint, eppylets worn't the best, 
„ .431 

of virtue, assumes some, 425 

our coming, an eye will, 438 

put the self-same, 249 

the archer little meant, finds, 358 

the changing colour, to, 293 

the sparrow 's fall, 84 

to bear, a lasting, 455 

where a garden had been, to, 342 
Mark Antony the world, who lost, 

45 2 
Marked him for her own, melancholy, 

257 
Market had the usual chills, the 

moral, 269 
Market-town, a fellow in a, 326 
Marks, by these special, 239 

her its ain, simplicity, 364 

of angels' feet, 460 

our English dead, but, 113 

upon you, none of my uncle 's, 239 
Marmion, last words of, 47 

such as, 97 
Marred in making, he, 178 

is a man that's, 254 

many a poem is, 109 
Marriage, 253 

a pair of stairs to, 242 

bond divine, to stamp the, 442 

comes by destiny, 86 

I made a second, 426 

tables, the, 147 

the contract of her, 407 
Marriage-bell, merry as a, 334 



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633 



Marriage-hindering mammon, this 

filthy, 470 
Marriages, 253 

are happy, why so few, 280 
Married, 253, 254 

live till I were, 16 

man, Benedick the. 254 

Mr. R , Nancy Low has, 53 

she, 450 

some are, 351 

to immortal verse, 394 

when we are, 238 
Marrow of a nation, the pith and, 277 

with too late, freezing the, 211 
Marrow-bones, flopped down on my, 

313 
Marrowless, thy bones are, 29 
Marry, 254, 255 

for munny, don't thou, 267 

the best person she could, 243 

you, then I won't, 246 

young maids must, 203 
Mars, an eye like, 250 

me, this movement makes or, 247 

they '11 question, 306 

this seat of, 112 
Marshal's truncheon, the, 260 
Marshes calling, the plover from the, 

384 
Marsh-grass sends into the sod, the, 

156 
Marsh-hen secretly builds, as the, 156 
Mart, press too close in church and, 
220 

to your throne amid the, 413 

your offices for gold, sell and, 294 
Martial airs of England, 112 

outside, a swashing and a, 394 
Martin-haunted eaves, the, 107 
Martin 's summer, Saint, 1 68 
Martyr, 255 

Martyrs died to save, 416 
Martyrs' ashes watched, the, 441 
Marvel and a mystery to the world, 
a, 255 

how the fishes live, 133 

or surprise, of, 147 
Mary, I 'm sitting on the stile, 387 

now of a bloody, 157 

Queen, to, the praise be given, 369 

rose at Jesus' word, as, 358 
Maryland, 255 
Masculine attire in which they roughen 

to the sense, 357 
Mashed upon her cheeks, 399 
Mask, jesters weep behind the, 165 

tired dissimulation drops her, 81 

put on his ugliest, 80 

your passions, can argue down or, 
298 
Mason, builds stronger than the, 164 
Masque, fragrant at an ev'ning, 410 
Masquerade, the truth in, 218 
Mass, that party-coloured, 64 
Massachusetts, a coat thet sets well 
in ole, 60 



Mast, and bends the gallant, 359 

just a funnel and a, 54 

her holy flag, nail to the, 133 

like a drunken sailor on a, 346 

nailed her colours to the, 58 

right up above the, 63 

what though the, 231 
Master, 255 

a grief, can, 165 

bold, the, 436 

do not tell me the Almighty, 155 

for life, he shall be, 348 

I can hardly think you my, 239 

missed it, though thy, 140 

ob de sheepfol', 358 

of his fate, 141 

of his liberty, a man is, 250 

of lord and clown, 103 

of my fate, I am the, 126 

of what is mine own, 263 

Spirit, life-blood of a, 30 

the book wherein the, 280 

went, into the woods my, 457 
Master-passion, since love is held the, 

234 
Masterpiece is writing well, nature 's 

chief, 467 
Master's own, heart is still his, 176 
Masters, 255 

lords and rulers, 147 

of their fates, 127 
Mast-high came floating by, ice, 190 
Match, it was fit to, 329 

those dreams of mine, to, 98 

to solve a learned doubt, what can, 
433 
Matched our buttons, when we've, 

211 
Matches are lit, the, 387 
Mate, a woman needs a, 450 

choose not alone a proper, 254 

coo dove to thy married, 97 

hovers o'er her, 97 

some honest gander for her, 255 

to thee, and here, kind, 32 
Mated by the lion, that would be, 384 

with a clown, thou art, 189 
Material things, a growing knowledge 

of, 467 
Mates him first, 82 
Matin to be near, 153 
Matins, to tune up his unseasonable, 

210 
Matrimony, 255 
Matrons, maids, 368 
Matter, 256 

better in France, they order this, 
142 

book containing such vile, 30 

enough, and, 378 

if, why the delicate dish, 92 

of me, that 's what 's the, 404 

of right, is a, 289 

the wrecks of, 191 

too soft, 455 

what's the, 119 



634 



Index 



Matter-o'-money, quoth echo plainly, 

Matters at worst are sure to mend, 464 

none of theirs, thrust them into, 285 
Mattock, the, and the grave, 401 
Maud and Marian pass him by, 4 

come into the garden, 148 
Mauls some feline foe, 44 
Mavournin, Erin, 115 
Maxim, observed this useful, 66 

let this great, 427 
Maxims, with a little hoard of, 73 
May, 236 

be, what we, 12 

go marry, and while ye, 234 

last, a braw wooer, 438 

love whose month is ever, 238 

the day when it is, 361 

when they are maids, 437 
Mayflower, launch our, 281 
May-morn of his youth, in the very, 

470 
Mayor, 256 
Maze of quick, now bourgeons every, 

372 
Me, himself, his hungering neighbour 
and, 181 

is not the rose for, 342 

then no more of thee and, 423 
Mead and moor, from, 52 
Meadow of margin, through a, 293 

the, the orchard, 49 
Meadows, 236 

are bleating in the, 469 

brown and sere, and, 257 

goes down in de gloomerin', 338 

up t'ro' the gloomerin', 339 
Meal a day, at least one, 256 

and the walk that costs a, 430 

for the worms to eat, a rich juicy, 
229 

the raven croaked as she sate at her, 
326 
Meals, 236 
Mean, and party leaders all they, 313 

alike condemn, both the golden, 237 

I know not what they, 399 

meaning, a very, 256 

the thing that is, 33 

the thing those letters, 450 

what may this, 268 

yes, mebby to, 283 
Meander through a meadow of margin, 

shall, 293 
Meaner creatures kings, and, 186 
Meanest have their day, the, 123 

of mankind, 123 

of the mean, the, 243 
Meaning, 236 

have incurred the worst, who with 
best, 464 
Meanings and wishings, full of good, 

„, I93 
Meanness, 256 

Means enabled them, whose, 266 
get wealth and place, by any, 266 



Means, healed by the same, 197 

he '11 soon find, 142 

is one of the most effectual, 432 

no matter by what, 266 

not to be found, that, 355 

of evil, still to And, 116 

of life, in the very, 33 

the end must justify the, 109 

the happier to arise, 121 

to do ill deeds, 83 

to live, save, 223 

whereby I live, take the, 223 
Meant, 256 

finds mark the archer little, 338 

who happens to be, 340 
Measles and that, if the children had 

the, 19 
Measure, God gives wind by, 209 

of all your pleasure, full, 329 

of an unmade grave, 163 

of a stalwart man, 230 

of devotion,' the last full, 276 

of immortal hope, 113 

of my wrath, come not within the, 
463 

of the height of pam, the, 293 

their life by art, some, 398 

twenty miles to-day, we must, 262 
Measured by my soul, I must be, 263 

by tears, time is best, 406 
Measures, 236 

new times demand new, 281 
Meat, 257 

anger's my, 9 

and would fain have, 240 

as full of quarrels as an egg is full of, 
322 

as full of wit as an egg is full of, 447 

both mouth and the, 271 

fire, and clothes, 336 

for your master, I am, 255 

I cannot eat but little, 6 

it feeds on, make the, 193 

or drink, is another's, 309 

sauce to, 129 
Meats, the funeral baked, 147 

the sweetest, the soonest cloy, 423 

Mechanic his labour will often discard, 

a, 39° 

slaves with greasy aprons, 368 
Med'cinable, some griefs are, 166 
Meddle or make with them, the less 
you, 401 

with politics, I never love to, 310 
Meddled with a tempest, should not 

have, 297 
Meddles with cold iron, the man that, 

302 
Medicine more, to try one desperate, 
Meditation, 237 

let us all to, 80 
Meed, perseverance gains it, 302 
Meek than fierce, it's safer being, 139 
Meekly she bowed her own, 109 
Meekness her sins, and leaving with, 
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Index 



635 



Meet, 257 

a body, gin a body, 203 

again beyond the tomb, 61 

again, congenial spirits part to, 60 

again, Tom, we shall, 89 

again, whether we shall, 125 

and mingle, in one spirit, 366 

and never the twain shall, 391 

and oh, when we, 257 

at any time again, when we, 296 

for such a guest is, 303 

'im later on, I'll, 395 

it is I set it down, 426 

that every nice offence, it is not, 289 

them like necessities, let us, 279 

the sun, to, 151 

the sun upon the upland lawn, to, 
392 

when next we, 239 

where two raging fires, 132 
Meetest for death, 439 
Meeting, 257 

broke the good, 264 

our, was all mirth and laughter, 296 

was bliss, the, 338 

were bare without it, 129 
Meetings, journeys end in lovers', 198 
Meets the ear, meant than, 106 
Melancholy, 257, 258 

a green and yellow, 298 

and to be, 239 

can soothe her, 136 

slow, remote, unfriended, 332 

with care and, 196 
Mellowing of occasion, upon the, 258 
Mellow-tasted Burgundy, the, 40 
Melody foretells, world of merriment 
their, 23 

of song, by, 374 
Melrose made gude kail, the monks of. 

267 
Melt at others' woe, 174 

away, our navies, 139 

flesh would, 134 

his iron heart to pity, or, 406 
Melted away, voice in my dreaming 
ear, 98 

him in his own grease, 164 

into air, are, 428 
Melting mood, unused to the, 399 
Melts, a woman's tear-drop, 398 

like kisses, which, 210 

the ball, that, 227 

the mind to love, pity, 305 
Member don't agree, if a, 171 

no comfortable feel in any, 285 

to lay for that same, 171 
Members, gangrened, 148 
Memories, 258 
Memory, 258 

a sinner of his, 219 

for his jests, indebted to his, 291 

from the table of my, 331 

green in our souls, keep his, 274 

has drawn upon his, 291 

holds a seat, while, 331 



Memory 

now have I but their, 331 
of a thousand years, 72 
of past folly, the, 44s 
of the just, the, 199 
of the man, to the, 132 
pluck from the, 263 
still, how sweet their, 300 
Men, 259 

about me that are fat, 126 
about thee, thou hast, 317 
an avalanche of, 119 
and dogs shall drink him, 248 
and justifiable to, 200 
and studied, 66 
and the ways of, 68 
and women, all the, 383 
and women, dead, 75 
angels might talk with, 417 
an' I 've seen things an', 40 
an' warly, 44 

are April when they woo, 457 
• are dangerous, such, 126 
are free to think, and, 220 
are merriest when they are from 

home, 261 
are the tastes of, 397 
are to be born so, 10 
a sea of, 119 

as he wrote down for, 418 
as its exposing, 195 
as live, such, 84 

as they ought to be, to draw, 294 
at some time, 127 
below and saints above, and, 237 
betray, that, 136 

bond, marvel that they make, 45s 
breeds hard English, 113 
call treasure, what, 102 
can cover crimes, 119 
carcasses of unburied, 69 
condemned alike to groan, 392 
decay, and, 300 
deeds are, 459 
do, the evil that, 116 
do a-land, as, 133 
down, which bind, 122 
drawing force from all her, 277 
dying make their wills, 450 
entirely great, the rule of, 301 
entrap the hearts of, 168 
ere we were women and, 392 
ever had and ever will have leave, 

379 
Eve upon the first of, 2 
fair women and brave, 334 
fear death as children fear, 77 
follow him, bids, 390 
for ever, a star to, 206 
forget themselves so far, muse that, 

455 
free, 142 
governments are instituted among, 

161 
had ears, if, 272 
handful of, 113 



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Index 



Men 

have broke, all the vows that ever, 

429 
have died from time to time, 238 
have done, what, 96 
have dulled their eyes, 155 
have their price, all those, 31s 
heart-easing Mirth, and by, 264 
hearts of oak are our, 286 
high-minded, 385 
honest, that thinks, 183 
in barricks do n't grow into plaster 

saints, 349 
in earnest have no time to waste, 416 
in the affairs of, 405 
in the hearts of, 191 
into the trunks of, 378 
justify the ways of God to, 200 
know love, most, 232 
know well enough, wise, 255 
less brave, but, 14s 
lies upon the paths of, 138 
lingering and looking at goods, 266 
maids in purity, see, 321 
maids must kiss no, 202 
may come, and men may go, 116 
may do, fight for love as, 457 
may live fools, 138 
may rise on stepping-stones, 170 
may sleep, 404 
measures not, 256 
might be better if we better deemed, 

191 
mortal but themselves, all, 269 
mount, on which, 122 
must endure their going hence, 157 
must work, 132 

my brothers, men the workers, 461 
naething I hated like, 458 
new measures and new, 281 
not, but measures, 256 
not two strong, 84 
observingly distil it out, 160 
of course do seek, 318 
of death, work forth, 79 
of genius, companies of, 387 
of most renowned virtue, 213 
of thought and men of action, 225 
on a man that died for, 104 
one of Plutarch's, 308 
other times and other, 1 14 
port for, 34 

prize the thing ungained, 318 
pronounce them wimmen, 449 
propose, why don't the, 319 
sailors but, 359 
schemes o' mice and, 261 
shall understand, King James 's, 63 
shiver when thou'rt named, 162 
should fear, that, 80 
should put an enemy, 33 
sifting out the hearts, 415 
sit down to that nourishment, 393 
so loose in soul, a kind of, 371 
some to bus'ness, 325 
talk only, and, 210 



Men 

that do the world 's rough work, 306 

that dwelt in Jerusalem, above all, 
193 

that fishes gnawed upon, 102 

that in a narrower day, 106 

the busy hum of, 188 

that women marry, the, 255 

the helm, nor yields to, 86 

the hopes of all, 193 

their best apparel do, as, 446 

the lives of most women and, 140 

the most infamous, 123 

there are a sort of, 291 

there are love not a gaping pig, 304 

the tears of bearded, 398 

the thoughts of, are widened, 322 

the tongues of, 82 

this blunder still you find, in, 28 

this happy breed of, 112 

this rail-splitter a true-born king of, 
324 

this restless craving in the souls of, 
46 

through the deeds of, 126 

to all brave, 39 

true and leal, have all, 150 

twelve good, into a box, 33 

we petty, 58 

were deceivers ever, 83 

whose heads do grow, 88 

whose heads stood, 88 

. . . will back their own opinions 
with a wager, 429 

will call, saints will aid if, 348 

will seek you, rejoice and, 329 

with forty thousand, 202 

would be angels, 316 

wrecked upon a sand, as, 465 

write, for this, 123 
Menace, more fraught with, 165 
Mend, at the worst they sometimes, 
464 

for man to, 172 

his pace, will not, 33 

matters at worst are sure to, 464 

my ways, I vow to, 429 

too vain to, 46 

your speech a little, 380 
Mended, 260 

for nothing else but to be, 329 
Mends their morals, it, 13s 
Men's affairs, the privatest of, 120 

business and bosoms, home to, 40 

charitable speeches, leave it to, 258 

daughters, words are, 459 

ends marked, more are, 105 

evil manners live in brass, 34 

faces are true, 119 

graves, over, 202 

lives, yet waste, 208 

minds about to religion, 14 

names, new-made honor doth forget, 
27s 

souls, poison to, 158 

souls, the times that try, 378 



Index 



637 



Mental dyspepsy, of a, 31 
Mention her name, why I never once, 
274 

of me, where no, 140 
Mentioned not at all, than, 123 
Mentions hell to ears polite, never, 178 
Mercer's plague, Miss, the, 361 
Merchant over-polite to his customers, 

15 
Merchant s flesh, that same, 134 
Merchants most do congregate, where, 
193 

unimpeachable of sin, 413 
Mercies and judgments mark him, 

iS4 
Merciful one, the compassionate and, 

242 
Mercury, be, 171 

like the herald, 250 
Mercy. 260 

alike to kill or save, 227 

disclaiming all regard for, 413 

in her woe, 142 

is a God unjust, a God all, 157 

no, now can clear her brow, 366 

of a rude stream, 153 

on mankind, shut the gates of, 368 

sighed farewell, 142 

temper, so justice with, 199 

underlies, life and death his, 147 

with a bleeding heart, stripes that, 
39o 
Mere words, words, 459 
Meridian of my glory, full, 122 
Merit, 260 

heaven by making earth a hell, 177 

his sense of your great, 405 

how he esteems your, 405 

praise, who, 332 

raised, by, 107 

shall bring his, 1S7 

should they have regard, to true, 
427 

spurns that patient, 323 

which we so little, 380 
Merits, 261 

on their own, 265 

or their faults to scan. 303 
Merrier life than mine, led a, 221 

man, a, 196 
Merriest. 261 
Merrily hent the stile-a, 174 

shall I live now, 21 
Merriment their melody foretells, 
what a world of, 23 

your flashes of, 468 
Merry, 261 

dancing, drinking, 71 

and yet honest too, wives majr be, 
448 

as a marriage-bell, 334 

heart goes all the day, 174 

if to be old and, 290 

men are we, and, 436 

+ he damsel that 's, 246 

when I hear sweet music, never, 273 



Mesh to entrap the hearts, 168 
Messengers, his tears pure, 29 
Messes, herbs and other country, 303 
Messmates, hear a brother sailor, 346 
Met again four summers after, 296 

and fought with, may be, 219 

and we parted for ever, 296 

as it we had not, 384 

her, would you know how first he, 
439 

never, 37 

no sooner, 242 

the enemy, we have, no 

the guests are, 167 

the night that first we, 343 

we, 't was in a crowd, 67 

we, 't was in a mob, 67 

when or how or where we, 220 

when we, 204 

with elsewhere, ne'er, 182 
Metal from my side, that I must draw 
this, 442 

more attractive, 14 

into gold, life's leaden, 162 

on war's red techstone rang true, 19 
Metamorphosed with a mistress, now 

you are, 239 
Metaphysic, 261 
Meteor flag of England, the, no 

in the sky, a transient, 376 

like a swift-fleeting, 269 

of a spark, each light gay, 410 
Meteor-like flame lawless through the 

void, 306 
Metes to ev'ry pinch of human dust, 



in 't, yet there 's, 245 

of making a fortune, the, 141 
Metre ballad-mongers, one of these 

same, 205 
Metropolis and see of Rome, the great, 

342 
Mettle enough to kill care, 45 

grasp it like a man of, 280 
Mew, be a kitten and cry, 205 

the cat will, 45 
Mewed, in shady cloister, 56 

the brinded cat hath, 45 
Mewing her mighty youth, an eagle, 

277 
Mexico, the richest spoils of, in 
Micawber, Mr., I never will desert, 85 
Mice, 261 

her feet fell patter, cheep, like little, 
129 

like little, stole in and out, 129 
Mid-day beam, at the full, 277 
Middle, now i' the, 71 

of her web, in, 380 

of the night, the dead vast and, 282 

state, w-ho keeps the, 228 

tree and highest, the, 63 
Midnight, 261, 262 

abed after, 24 

air, out in the, 40 



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Index 



Midnight 

and morn, a mistake between, 348 

bell, if the, 22 

bell, mock the, 33 

curtains round, drew my, 167 

oil, consumed the, 215 

oil, of mid-day sun and, 409 

pillow, sighed upon a, 242 

shout and revelry, 129 

taper, beneath a, 317 

taper, what they call their, 123 
Midst of my blisses, in the, 205 

of water I complain of thirst, in, 435 
Mien, a monster of so frightful, 425 

carries, though her, 108 

such a face and such a, 425 

the lofty port, the distant, 316 
Might, faith that right makes, 337 

have been, saddest are these, it, 346 

no, can censure 'scape, 42 

of his sunbeam, death with the, 77 

on all the chords with, 241 

that slumbers, the, 300 

the sun never sets on his, 112 
Mightier man-child, truth's yet, 115 

than the sword, the pen is, 301 
Mightiest in the mightiest, 'tis, 260 
Mighty fire, will make a, 131 

fortress is our God, a, 140 

space of our large honours, 36 

than he seems, more, 84 

yearning, like the first, 66 
Mild decay, a general flavour of, 82 

not by nature, 341 

of affections, 252 
Milder moons emparadise the night, 

65 
Mildest, 262 

Mildews the white wheat, 135 
Mildness, come gentle spring, ethereal, 

382 
Mile in Ireland's isle, not a, 372 
Mile-a, sad tires in a, 174 
Miles, 262 

he had journeyed fifty, 106 
Military array, against the soldier in 
full, 352 

posts, her possessions and, 112 
Milk, 262 

and marry, I shall, 254 

and water, oh, 264 

coals, 44 

comes frozen home, 190 

dealers in watered, 325 

in a male tiger, than there is, 260 

like wrinkled skins on scalded, 364 

philosophy, adversity's sweet, 303 

take suggestion as a cat laps, 392 

the bowl, fills with, 182 
Milking, I am going a-, 246 
Milkmaid singeth blithe, the, 307 
Milk-teeth white, to keep his, 408 
Milk-white hand examine well his, 36 
Mill cannot grind, the, 434 

more water glideth by the, 435 

the, the mint, 386 



Mill, the, the plough, the axe, 212 
Miller, 262 

of, that wots the, 435 
Millions sons, whirled for a, 18 

men, troubles himself little about a, 
259 

piers, up on its, 152 

pleased not the, 45 

thy love is worth a, 292 
Millions a hero, 272 

do, what will those luckless, 75 

in those solitudes, 75 

of bubbles like us, 39 

of spiritual creatures, 381 

slew, whose fiat, 332 

thousands, perhaps, 192 
Mills, 262 

the curt-tongued, 413 
Milton held, which, 412 

some mute inglorious, 168 
Milton's ashes lay, where, 29 

or in Shakespeare's name, in, 458 
Mimicry of bloom, with all the, 64 
Minaret, doth shake the, 154 
Mince it in love, no ways to, 238 
Minced-pies, quarrel with, 322 
Mind, 262, 263 

above, wafts the, 233 

a dagger of the, 70 
. a thought, his, 248 

education forms the common, 107 

fail thee, if thy, 55 

grief that saps the, 166 

hard to move the lady 's, 141 

has a thousand eyes, the, 281 

love looks with the, 69 

methinks I see in my, 277 

never brought to, 14 

nobler in the, 19 

so unaffected, so composed a, 453 

stale in thrifty, 126 

taint not thy, 270 

tempt with doubts thy constant, 
347 

that never meant amiss, the, 256 

that spoke the vacant, 211 

the American, 8 

the best contentment has, the no- 
blest, 62 

the gentle, 150 

the image of our, 447 

the last infirmity of noble, 123 

the pain, never, 13s 

quite vacant, a, 333 

the troubled sea of the, 369 

to, by damning those they have no, 
366 

to atheism, inclineth man's, 14 

to conceal the, 210 

to him, the thorn-tree had a, 458 

to love, pity melts the, 305 

to mind, and, 237 

to work my, 21 

oppress, dumps the, 166 

or moral nature, body, 425 

out of, 364 



Index 



639 



Mind 

quickly also is he out of, 364 

upon your health, have, 139 

were of my, 133 

whose untutored, 176 

windows of her, 444 
Minds about to religion, 14 

and manners, English, no 

are not ever craving, 31 

balm of hurt, 370 

improve by travel, some, 276 

made better, in, 50 

productive of the greatest, 41 

strong, great hearts, 259 
Mine, 263 

and thine, love that says not, 23s 

bright jewels of the, 464 

entered into, 5 1 

in spite of fate are, 221 

it was, it is not I, 74 

now thine, is closelier, 275 

of afterthought to me, 274 

own, she is, 197 

own, which is, 147 

that only makes it, 443 

't was, 't is his, 27s 

with my heart in 't, 169 
Mines, one yard below their, no 
Mingle, in one another's being, 366 

in one spirit meet and, 366 

mid the brightness of the skies, 378 

with forgotten ashes, and, 81 
Mingled, hearts have once, 17s 

into one, 56 

into one, been, no 
Mingles with my friendly bowl, 327 
Mingling poetic honey with trade 

wax, 308 
Minions, the clouds are my, 284 
Minister, 263 

one fair spirit for my, 85 

to a mind diseased, 263 
Ministers of grace, defend us, 9 

of love, all are but, 234 
Minnows, this Triton of the, 414 
Minster, 264 
Minstrel in, ring the fuller, 336 

raptures swell, no, 65 

was infirm and old, 436 
Minstrelsy, the merry, 36 

with the gentle, 414 
Mint of phrases in his brain, that hath 
a, 303 

the mill, the, 386 
Minted coins express, even its, 157 
Minute, at what precise, 210 

in a, pay, 78 

lingering a, 292 

sighing every, 56 

stopped, not a, 325 

will speak more in a, 396 
Minute-gun, while peals the, 433 
Minute 's, the black, at end, 78 
Minutes, in forty, 152 

of hell, to have some fifteen, 176 

tells he o'er, what damned, 243 



Miracle, would work a, 155 
Mire, to her wallowing in the, 378 

which ne'er left man i' the, 435 
Mirror, holds its warped, 278 

up to nature, to hold . . . the, 278 
Mirth, 26 4 

and laughter, our meeting was all, 
296 

and laughter, wine and women, 444 

can into folly glide, how, 136 

earth must borrow its, 212 

he is all, 196 

I '11 use you for my, 382 

in sorrow enter or in, 377 

lady, when first your, 148 

little inmate, full of, 175 

not a string attuned to, 257 

of its December, the, 331 

present, hath present laughter, 239 

the limits of becoming, 196 

the night-song of, 125 

within the limit of becoming, 196 
Mirth-moving jest, turns to a, 196 
Misapprehension of our new condi- 
tions, 8 
Misbegotten knaves in Kendal green, 

205 
Misbeliever, call me, 147 
Mischief, either of virtue or, 442 

let them call it, 414 

Satan finds some, 190 

that is past and gone, mourn a, 
271 
Misdeeds, avenged on my, 15 
Misdoubteth every bush, 25 
Miser, rich honesty dwells like a, 183 
Miserable, me, 177 

night, passed a, 99 

to be weak is, 436 
Miseries, think to shed a tear in all my, 

399 
Misers, compare our rich, 133 
Misery, 264 

acquaints a man with strange bed- 
fellows, 21 

and crime, fatal sources of, 422 

freed, Ned Purdon from, 168 

must I lose that too, 231 

result, 192 

t' avoid, 422 

to crown his, 317 
Misfortune, 265 

more bitter, they make, 50 

sometimes a, 102 
Misfortunes, 265 

of mankind, follies and, 180 
Mislike me not for my complexion, 60 
Misquote, 265 
Miss but me, that every, 290 

but nature cannot, 277 

him, till you, 49 

no beauty she doth, 20 

thou shalt not, 179 
Missed it, though thy master, 140 

should ever anything be, 44 
Misses or who wins, who, 150 



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Index 



Mist and a weeping rain, there follows 
a, 203 

answer each other in the, 52 

folded in the, 23 

in my face, 78 

obscures, no, 268 

resembles the rain, as the, 375 
Mistake, they also lie too under a, 219 

't was all a, 348 

you lie under a, 219 
Mistakes, 265 

will occur, for, 348 
Mistaking, sinned I not but in, 366 
Mistletoe, 265 
Mistress find, in every port a, 347 

in my own, but, 276 

Nature, a jealous, 277 

no casual, 375 

now you are metamorphosed with a, 
239 

of herself, and, 362 

of the scene, that, 81 

such Nan, such, 255 
Mistress' eyebrow, made to his, 242 
Mite, 265 

by mite, who, 92 

rob them of their, 67 
Mite 's, 265 

Mix the punch, while you, 321 
Mixtures of more happy days, happy, 

264 
Mizzled, and then he, 329 
Moan be made, let no, 17 

of joy or, 24 
Moaning, and groanin' and para- 
phrasin', 309 

of the bar, no, 17 

to the bar and its, 132 
Moans of their heart, by the, 398 
Meat defensive to a house, 112 
Mob of rascals, the, 325 

we met, 't was in a, 67 
Mock, let riot ambition, 310 

our eyes with air, 56 

thee soul, I will not, 377 

the meat it feeds on, 195 

the midnight bell, 33 
Mocked and scorned, by nature is, 277 

for ever, God is not, 301 
Mockeries of the past, but, 45 s 
Mockery of woe, bear about the, 448 

unreal, hence, 358 
Mocking pencil, who with, 225 
Mocks at it, bite the man that, 375 

he who nature scorns and, 277 
Model of a statuary, fit for the, 385 

of the barren earth, 80 
Moderate haste might tell a hundred, 

with, 188 
Modern civilization, in our, 55 

existence, agitation of, 365 

nations vainly aim, at which all, no 
Modes of faith, for, 120 
Modest, 265 

as ony, she "s, 364 
Modester nor sweeter, ain't, 95 



Modesty, 266 

of nature, o'erstep not the, 278 
Molasses, the product distilled from, 

344 
Molest her ancient,. solitary reign, 292 
Molten, graven, hammered and rolled. 

i57 
Moment, every, dies a man, 69 

every, lightly shaken, 241 

every, one is born, 69 

few have guessed the, 405 

flies, and in a, 233 

flow, the tide one, 82 

give to God each, 227 

heated hot in a, 50 

I have had, von only happy, 200 

of great pith and, 61 

there 's a, 140 

to decide, comes the, 83 

they are free, that, 368 

will come, the, 338 

yet the actor stops, a, 70 
Momentary, the fit is, 133 
Moment 's ornament, to be a, 302 
Moments before, a presentiment of it 
some, 315 

in life when the heart, 173 

make the year, 414 

of bliss, called me thy angel in, 9 

to cheat the thirsty, 288 
Monarch, 266 

hears, the, 155 

it becomes the throned, 260 
Monarch's voice, with a, 335 
Monarchs die, how, 329 

must obey, you proud, 81 

talk of, 402 

to behold the swelling scene, 383 
Monarchy, 266 
Monday, as guiltless as on, 393 

comes betwixt the Saturday and, 74 

denied to friends and visitors till, 

34S 
Money, 266, 267 

cannot afford to play cards for, 

enough, and have not, 434 

gratis, he lends out, 421 

hath a dog, 95 

in thy purse, put, 322 

in trust, but put your, 415 

it was for want of, 239 

laaid by, cause o' 'er, 241 

love was love and better than, 240 

of fools, they are the, 459 

put not your trust in, 415 

sir, your, 91 

too, luvv thy lass an' 'er, 241 

too, play for love and, 241 
Money-bags, I did dream of, 98 
Money-brokers and bill discounters, 

193 
.!/. ■>:,: .■-;'.'. -iHi't*. ';''■ , 
Mongrel 's hold will slip, the, 40 
Monk, 267 

would be, the devil a, 87 



Index 



641 



Monkey. 267 

God help thee, poor, 127 
with his tail abridged, a, 249 

Monkeys were the gods, where, 316 

Monks, 267 

and bones, a town of, 387 

Monody compels, solemn thought 
their, 410 

Monopolists, joy flies, 198 

Monotony, concealed in life 's, 462 

Monster begot upon itself, a, 195 
coiling in its nurse's lap, a, 416 
of ingratitudes, a great-sized, 407 
of so frightful mien, vice is a, 425 
spouted, where the wallowing, 354 
which doth mock the meat, 195 

Monsters you make of them, what, 
255 

Monstrous, is it not, 307 
life, argues a, 80 

Month, is ever May, love whose, 238 
laughter for a, 196 
of May, in the merry, 256 
of June, in the leafy, 37 
than he will stand to in a, 396 

Months and years rolled by, 296 
of every year, two, no 
to-morrow, but 't is only a, 374 
that have not an R in their name, 
292 

Monument, 267 

a brave man 's, 299 
like patience on a, 298 

Monuments, her, shall last. 322 

Mood, in any shape, in any, 376 
of melancholy, a kindly, 257 
unused to the melting, 399 
with Palinure 's unaltered, 304 

Moods of mourning, sullen, 365 
shapes of grief, 448 

Moon, 267, 268 
bay the, 36 
blow them at the, no 
cold, fruitless, 56 
complain, does to the, 292 
course of one revolving, 114 
examine Venus and the, 306 
had filled her horn, ere thrice yon, 

12 
hang them on the horns o' the, 43 
is full, when the, 57 
into salt tears, 402 
is hid, the, 23, 52 
no bigger than the, 63 
no sun, no, 285 
pale as the, 344 
shine at full or no, if the, 193 
too quaffs the, 10 1 
to wind up the sun and, 9 
waning, not the crescent, 4 
was round, the, 106 
with this ninth, 18 

Moonbeams kiss the sea, and the, 
204 

Moonlight, 268 

under this clear, 373 



Moon 's an arrant thief, the, 402 

pale beam, print them on the, 450 
Moons, milder, emparadise the night, 

65 
Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, 
152 

be out, 304 
Moor, 269 

from mead and, 52 

herself within my room, 73 

my lord, due to the, 189 
Mop and pattens with, 296 
Moral, 269 

accountable being, man is a, 249 

element and public opinion, in war, 
the, 431 

. . . may be safely attached, 48 

nature, body, mind or, 425 

of all human tales, 18 

sensible, and well-bred man, 4 

taints, sniff out our, 347 

to point a, 274 
Moralist to die, teach the rustic, 401 
Moralists apply, unwashed, 344 
Morals, 269 

hold, the faith and, 412 

it mends their, 13s 
More attractive, metal, 14 

but nature, 277 

faults than hairs, 168 

goods a man has, the, 279 

hair than wit, 168 

I give to thee, the, 239 

I have, the, 239 

I '11 love no, 232 

is felt, when, 178 

is meant than meets the ear, 106 

is no, 92 

mighty than he seems, 84 

much more, the heart may feel, 1 74 

than less, better the, 28 

of that, Hal, no, 243 

of thee and me, then no, 423 

than my brothers are to me, 38 

time shall be no, 406 

they thought they might get, 183 

thou shalt have, 362 

who dares do, 72 

you drink, the, 100 

you have the more you want, 430 
Morn, 269 

a mistake between midnight and, 
348 

as if that, 269 

came dim and sad, 105 

came peeping in at, 330 

fair laughs the, 470 

have a rouse before the, 69 

I 'm off at eight to-morrow, 132 

mute symbols of a joyful, 275 

no, no noon, 285 

no sleep till, 71 

salutation to the, 57 

than ours, another, 105 

that wait for execution in the, 333 

till night, my dream of life from, 062 



642 



Index 



Morn 

till night, worked and sung from, 
236 

to noon he fell, from, 122 

upon that winter's, 377 

with the dawning of, 98 

youth like summer, 5 
Morning, 269 

air, methinks I scent the, 269 

almost at odds with, 282 

away, from the voice of the, 57 

betime, all in the, 422 

breezy, preach upon a, 151 

brings eternal day, and a new, 13 

can rise in the, 442 

come in the, 59 

dews, drawn up like, 19 

drum-beat, whose, 112 

each, sees some task begin, 410 

face, and shining, 352 

face, day 's disasters in his, 93 

gate, through glory's, 105 

gleam, in the, 132 

half an hour every, 434 

hanged betimes in the, 169 

I awoke one, 124 

prime, herbs at the, 151 

roses newly washed with dew, 343 

shine, to bid thy, 10 

shows the day, as, 49 

sir I say, No this, 468 

than with the forehead of the, 282 

the wings o' the, 112 

they 're hanging Danny Deever in 
the, 169 

thrice ere the, 427 

true, the sun is to the, 245 

two clouds at, 56 
Morning-bugle, from India's, 112 
Mornings, a' brushes his hat o', 239 
Morrow morn, he rose the, 346 

say good-night till it be, 296 

that host on the, 216 

we bitterly thought of the, 313 
Morsel that stuffs him to the throat- 
gates, 92 
Mortal, 269 

breath, this life of, 76 

coil, this, 98 

creature, cringe to any, 42 

engines, O you, 125 

frame, quit this, 428 

frame, whatever stirs this, 234 

howe'er thy lot be cast, 228 

suffered more, never, 208 

taste, tree whose, 93 

thread, cut the, 75 
Mortality, 269, 270 

'gainst the ills of, 100 

no might nor greatness in, 42 
Mortals be, what fools these, 138 

call the moon, whom, 268 

crave, whatever, 462 

given, some feelings are to, 129 

to command success, not in, 392 
Moss, can gather no, 388 



315 



279 



Moss, wipe the weeds and, 163 
Moss-covered bucket, 39 
Mosses and fungi gather, the, 425 
Most strange, seems to me, 80 

unkindest cut of all, 70 
Moth with vain desire, not a, 160 
Motes, 270 
Mother, 270 

a lady, thy, 16 

and child, bathe in me, 247, 419 

and for the tender, 89 

and many a childing, 425 

came into mine eyes, all my, 399 

Charles, why should your, 164 

could'n I luvv thy, 241 

daughter, wife, the, 452 

earth is dry, when, 101 

England, for England, 48 

for him no, 182 

I 'm his, 237 

in her children, the pride of a, 

isle, our little, 194 

kept a shebeen shop, his, 440 

kneel, I saw my, 283 

of invention, necessity be the, 

of safety, the, 128 

of the world, necessity, thou, 279 

or bride or maid, 113 

Pembroke 's, 180 

praying God will save, 347 

rock me to sleep, 340 

sat there, a, 12 

showed, as my, 189 

so loving to my, 243 

the apron-strings of an American, 8 

there was their Dacian, 181 

though father and, 440 

was a Brady, his, 348 

wife, and queen, in her as, 323 
Mother (in law), 270 
Mother 's arms, we start from the, 56 

bosom, hidden in a, 129 

cat, if your, 277 

eye, he taks the, 469 

house, in my, 276 

lap, into thy, 228 

milk, as 'twere their, 181 

nest, drove from out the, 106 

pangs, when with a, 353 

throes, has Fate entailed the, 59 
Mothers, 270 
Moths, 270 
Motion, devoid of sense and, 90 

of a hidden fire, the, 313 

scoured to death with perpetual, 345 

this sensible warm, 90 
Motions of his spirit, the, 273 
Motives, let my character and my, 114 
Motley's the only wear, 137 
Motto, this be our, 41s 
Mould of form, the, 263 

scratched with a stick in the, 13 

though of terrestrial, 40 

verge of the churchyard, 157 
Moulded, and to this figure, 107 
Moulder piecemeal on the rock, 28 



Index 



643 



Mouldering heap, in many a, 108 

Moulders all, slowly, 337 

Moulding Sheridan, broke the die in, 
359 

Moulds, her old-world, 179 

Mouldy corn, that is ketched with, 206 
want their doctors, 94 

Mountain of its snows, as any, 285 

Moulmein pagoda, by the old, 251, 392 

Mound, or laboured, 385 

Mount, 270 
I, I fly, 163 _ 
to its summit, and we, 208 

Mountain, 270 
a forked, 56' 

brow, the river brink or, 182 
leave to feed, on this fair, 269 
small sands the, 414 
view, climb and seek the, 46 
yields, woods or steepy, 235 

Mountaineers, believe that there were, 
88 

Mountain's prow, dat float on de, 297 

Mountains and luxuriant plains, o'er 
the wild, 217 
interposed make enemies, no 
rise, where'er the, 245 
rolling, the sea was, 188 

Mountain-side, from every, 6s 

Mountebanks the porch disgrace, 52 

Mounted beggars, 22 

Mounteth with occasion, courage, 65 

Mounting, 271 

barbed steeds, instead of, 432 

Mourn, 271 

a year, then, 448 
for her, to weep and, 189 
makes countless thousands, 192 
where thou dost weep, 125 

Mourned, and by strangers, 139 
longer, would have, 20 

Mourner bowed, not like a, 299 

Mournful rhymes, ring out my, 336 

Mournfully, think of her, 454 

Mourning, 271 

by, the Old Year went, 119 

keep, sullen moods of, 365 

year were past, would heaven this, 

464 

Mouse, 271 

labouring mountain must bring 
forth a, 2 70 

or most magnanimous, 422 

not even a, 5 1 
Mousing for vermin, 70 
Mouth, 271 

as household words, familiar in his, 
27s 

even in the cannon's, 373 

for rhetoric he could not ope his, 335 

from a female, 210 

ginger shall be hot i' the, 427 

he always looked a gift-horse in the, 

it, but if you, 379 

look a gift-horse in the, 151 



Mouth 

of a woman, point-blank from the, 
283 

of hell, back from the, 80 

of the cannon, that speaks from the, 
3 J 4 

this concealed man out of thy, 383 

which hath the deeper, 213 

with his brazen, 22 
Mouth-filling oath, a good, 287 
Mouth-friends, you knot of, 146 
Mouthful, all at a, 133 
Mouth-honour, breath, 223 
Mouth-made vows, those, 428 
Mouths in a glass, but she made, 453 

into their, 33 
Move a horse, kick that scarce would, 
201 

a soul in agony, mirth cannot, 264 

easiest who have learned to dance, 
as those, 467 

her, when looking well can't, 294 

like the snail, or, 446 

out if you think you 're underpaid, 
413 

sun doth, 97 

the world, the imponderables, 237 

upward, working out the beast, 20 

wheresoe'er thou, 244 
Moved, nor is not, 273 
Movement makes or mars me, this, 247 
Moves his doubtful arms, and, 442 

on, having writ, 465 

she, 200 

the whole creation, 322 
Moving seems asleep, tide as, 18 
Mower whets his scythe, the, 307 
MSS., no creeds, ... or, 220 
Much at once, either to, 383 

receives, who, 26 

the hurt cannot be, 189 

the lady protests too, 319 

to do, so, 94 

who love too, 237 

who talk too, 396 
Muck, money is like, 266 
Muddle, 271 
Muezza 's call, the, 154 
Muffled drums, like, 163 
Mug in hand, with, 440 
Multiplied with theirs the weekly bill, 

94 
Multiplies, stock of lies in circulation, 

82 
Multiplying ever-more, 53 
Multitude, 271 

make virtue of the faith, 34 
Multitude 's hum, and the, 136 
Multitudinous seas incarnadine, 169 
Multitudinous-eddying light, dawn of, 

18 
Murder, 272 

could not kill, that, 252 

ez fer war I call it, 43 1 

works, the spirit of, 35 
Murdered them in clusters, 372 



644 



Index 



Murderer's frown, the, 384 
Murderers, gods on, 28 
Murders, 272 

doing more, 158 

our youth with his sorrow and sin, 
406 

twenty mortal, 90 
Murmur in the breast, in the, 23 
Murmured, Father, I thank thee, 109 

some kind voice had, 116 
Murmurs, with endless and profitless, 

45i 
Muse, 272 

he loved, by the, 385 

of the many- twinkling feet, 129 

the poet 's, 217 

the subject of the comic, 234 
Music, 272, 273 

and art, without poetry, 63 

and die in, 273 

arose, and when, 334 

and the dream, rebuild in it the, 567 

free, to make thy, 10 

in its roar, and, 457 

in't, his very foot has, 138 

I struck one chord of, 5 1 

mute, will make the, 337 

night shall be filled with, 44 

of humanity, the still, sad, 188 

of the union, step to the, 420 

of those village bells, 52 

of thousand tongues, 412 

out, beat his, 97 

passed in, 241 

shed, the soul of, 170 

tells, how many a tale their, 23 

to attending ears, like softest, 412 

to bring out their, 397 

with books and, 101 
Musician, that little airy, 210 
Musketeers, one by one the, 181 
Musket-shot, volley on volley, 42 
Mussels, saffron, red peppers, 32 
Must, 273 

but what we, 229 

not be, it, 315 

when duty whispers low thou, 104 

yet die we, 89 
Mustard, piece of beef and, 22 

of mordant, 349 
Mustered out, a soldier of the Union, 

3 73 
Mute, and pages stand, 317 

grief must then be, 38 

inglorious Milton, some, 168 

let's be, 172 

lips apart, standing with, 115 

on Tara 's walls, hangs as, 170 

will make the music, 337 

would be still and, 10 
Mutiny rash and undutiful, 20 
Mutter their affairs, in their sleeps 

will, 371 
Muttered in hell, 'twas, 167 
Mutton and porridge, pray a month 
with, 312 



Muttons, to return to our, 439 
Mutual admiration, a society of, 3 

happiness, one, 170 
Myriads who, that of the, 72 
Myself am heaven and hell, 178 

am hell, 178 

I sup upon, 9 

with yesterday's seven thousand 
years, 411 
Mysteries, athwart all, 261 

of grace, God hath his, 154 

of that magic tool, knows the, 467 
Mysterious one, and proud, 151 

way, God moves in a, 154 
Mystery, a sense of, 69 

and in that, 313 

of the ships, beauty and, 360 

swift to be hurled, to death 's, 244 

to the world, marvel and a, 255 



N 



Nag, the forced gait of a shuffling, 309 
Nail, a lie for every, 187 

blows his, 190 

the conscious needle, 279 

to the mast her holy flag, 133 
Nailed for our advantage, 67 

her colours to the mast, 58 
Nails, 273 

come near your beauty with my, 59 

shall handle you, thus our, 304 
Naked, 274 

in December snow, wallow, 191 

though locked up in steel, 12 

through the world, lash the rascals, 
439 

truth, patching fig-leaves for the, 
416 
Nakedness, not in utter, 25 
Name, 274, 275 

a deed without a, 83 

a local habitation and a, 308 

and memory, for my, 258 

are committed in thy, 217 

before his sacred, 231 

beyond the sky, waft thy, 125 

cant of a Saviour 's, 208 

cup of water in His, 69 

deserves no, 147 

each heart recalled a different, 241 

have not an R in their, 292 

he who once has won a, 1 

in print, to see one 's, 30 

is a tower of strength, the king 's, 

is Death, a Reaper whose, 79 

is MacGregor, and my, 138 

is woman, thy, 142 

land that bears a well-known, n.-, 

left a corsair 's, 64 

made life and love one, 454 

mark the marble with his, 53 

of action, lose the, 61 

of augurs, got the ill, 31 



Index 



645 



Name 

of Christ, in the, 242 

of Crispian, rouse him at the, 66 

of fear, a, 419 

of gentleman, grand old, 150 

of her husband, calls the, 99 

of Washington, bequeathed the, 434 

proud his, 65 

rise up, in his, 358 

rum I take to be the, 344 

shall yet warrant thy fame, 226 

spoken, I hear thy, 428 

stand back to back in God's, 131 

takes a specious, 272 

than French crown, a fairer, 332 

their love can scarce deserve the, 
233 

the tongue o' man can, 457 

to be known by, if thou hast no, 445 

to have ... a, 123 

to our Old Nick, gave 's, 281 

the underlying dead, stones that, 
468 

upon a, 123 

were liable to fear, 126 

with the whistling of a, 123 

we hailed it in God 's, 154 

without a stone, a, 334 
Named, when thou'rt, 162 
Names, 275 

and calls sweet, 255 

but few have any, 355 

have left great, 145 

he loved to hear, the, 252 

I name no, 163 

murders disguised by philosophic, 
272 

ye gi'e poor frailty, 142 
Nameless and dateless, 373 

grave, sat by some, 163 

unremembered acts, little, 201 



Nancy Low has married Mr 
53 



r 55 R- 



Nap, calmness about its, 171 

taken out his, 269 
Napes of your necks, toward the, 355 
Napkin, while we send for the, 211 
Napkins tacked together, two, 361 
Napping, while I nodded, nearly, 261 
Narcissa spoke, that poor, 75 
Narrow, 276 

frith, intersected by a, no 

gate, the house with the, 187 

house, and the, 362 
Narrower, 276 

day, men that in a, 106 
Nassau, can Bourbon or, 317 
Nasty ideas, a man of, 281 
Nation, 276, 277 

and of every, 193 

brutes no longer, deem our, 58 

darlings of our, 72 

he hates our sacred, 193 

how long, O cruel, 413 

of shopkeepers, fit only for a, 361 



Nation 

of traders, a, 361 

once to every man and, 83 

survive, rather than let the, 431 

the mourning of a mighty, 271 

to hate another, no 

wildly looks at nation, 115 

who should make the laws of a, 16 
Nation 's care, the naval stores the, 353 

prey, were every, 157 

wounds, to bind up the, 337 
Nations, and with all, 337 

fear our cry, let the, 143 

friendships with all, 6 

intercourse with foreign, 65 

judge of the, 139 

know, let fierce contending, 93 

like o'erloaded asses, 55 

make enemies of, no 

the ingenious youth of, 135 

the litanies of, 24 

the Niobe of, 283 

to foreign, 258 

vainly aim, at which all modern, no 
Native daring which instils, 72 

heath, my foot is on my, 138 

here, though I am, 70 

land good-night, my, 160 

land, my, my own, 65 

land, the violet of his, 426 

sod, appealing from his, 388 
Nativity, 277 
Natural to die as to be born, 88 

right, generalities of. 149 

to women, comes, 283 
Naturalists enough, we are not, 210 

observe, so, 134 
Nature, 277, 278 

all, is but art, 337 

and custom agree, 455 

and nature's laws lay hid, 281 

and time and change, 154 

appalled, 162 

but to write and read comes by, 466 

change the stamp of, 421 

cries, the voice of, 35 

diseased, oftentimes breaks forth, 
277 

done in my days of, 380 

extremes in, 117 

faith in God and, 156 

first made man, as free as, 350 

fits all her children, 67 

formed but one such man, 359 

fortress built by, 112 

free and open, 183 

free proclaims that man, 217 

getteth short of leaves, book of, 216 

hath assigned, that God and, 262 

her custom holds, 399 

in all the pomp of beauty reigns, 217 

is the art of God. 13 

lies in his true, 289 

made thee, to temper man, 452 

made us men, great, 259 

might stand up, that, 250 



6 4 6 



Index 



Nature 

mild, not by, 341 

never made, a death which, 81 

of a tragic volume, 38 

but from the heart of, 24 

passing through, 89 

scorn the shocking hat, man and, 
171 

seem at once to lose their, 413 

shall waken their free, 466 

sink in years, 191 

swears, auld, 211 

the force of, 309 

the grossness of his, 189 

the laws of, 10 1 

they say, doth dote, 179 

tickled with success, such a, 392 

to pangs of, 160 

to, 'tis their, 95 

to which the laws of, 356 

true wit is, 447 

we are by, 83 

we fools of, 268 

wherever outraged, 144 

which God and, 383 

will endure, the punishment thy, 
45° 
Nature 's agreeable blunders, one of, 
45o 

aspect, nothing in, 75 

chief masterpiece is writing well, 467 

debt, but, 89 

eldest law, self-defence is, 356 

end of language, 210 

holy law is drinking, 10 1 

kindly law, by, 49 

laws lay hid in night, 281 

own sweet and cunning hand, 21 

second course, great, 370 

sober found, nothing in, 101 

soft nurse, 370 

teachings, list to, 362 
Natures never vary, whose, 323 

the same with common, 280 

with sweet kind, 330 
Naughty night to swim in, a, 282 

world, good deed in a, 42 
Nauseous draught, for a, 172 
Nautilus, 278 
Naval stores the nation's care, the, 

Navarre, blazed the helmet of, 179 

the helmet of, 308 
Navies came, your nutshell, 284 

our, melt away, 139 

ride, rich, 38s 
Navigation 's soul, 60 
Navy, 278 
Near bred, a neighbour and, 60 

from far and, 52 

he comes too, 427 

is God to man, so, 104 

port or bay, in some, 73 

the matin to be, 153 

the time of universal peace is, 299 

your beauty with my nails, 59 



Nearer, 278 

and nearer, drawing, 339 
Nearest and dearest, truest, the, 146 

do the work that 's, 460 

to the stroke, 127 

when friends are, 331 
Nearing the place, I am, 78 
Neat cookery, but his, 62 

or leave them, 20 

still to be, 99 
Neat 's leather, a shoe be Spanish or, 20 
Nebulae, as we talked of, 241 
Necessary, 279 

cat, harmless, 45 

end, death a, 80 

for one people, it becomes, 356 
Necessities, 279 
Necessity, 279 

Neck, a collar grows right round his, 
60 

curved is each, 387 

down her exquisite, 339 

'round Donald 's, 176 
Necks, should trust our, 311 
Nectar, the water, 197 
Ned Cuttle bite his nail, when you see, 
273 

Cuttle 's aground, you may know, 
273 

lands and tenements to, 91 
Need a lie, nothing can, 218 

deserted at his utmost, 86 

for her time of, 277 

is great, whoever thou art whose, 
242 

of drink, but little, 101 

of help, what, 315 

of property, he hath no, 319 

predestined by that, 248 

so great, or the, 409 

with another 's, 181 

your woe, they do not, 329 
Needed, the treasure back when, 149 
Needle, 279 

and thread, hinders, 438 

and thread, plying her, 360 

she, for the, 454 

the mother wi' her, 270 

to the pole, true as the, 88 
Needle 's eye, the postern of a, 42 
Needless Alexandrine ends the song, 6 
Needlessly sets foot upon a worm, 

man who, 463 
Needs, 279 

friendship's solid mason-work be- 
low, 242 

it most, a fault which, 218 

our tastes, our, 381 
Neglect, 280 

me, lose me, 378 

such sweet, more taketh me, 364 
Negligent, than by the, 46 
Neigh of the steed, and the, 136 
Neighbour, and love my, 413 

further gone than he, thinks his, 284 

grind great or small, if, 207 



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647 



Neighbour, his hungering, 181 

to whom I am a, 60 
Neighbouring eyes, the cynosure of, 70 
Neighbour's shame, publishing our, 

Neighbours came and buried Brother 
John, 265 

things that had niver been, 16 
Neighbours' faults and folly, your, 305 

lasted, as long's their, 267 
Nell, 280 
Nepenthe, 280 

Neptune's ocean, will all great, 169 
Nerve, 280 

tends their strength to, 3 7 
Nerveless grasp, dropped from her, 142 
Nerves, he shoots his thoughts by 
hidden, 86 

my firm, 72 

to thrill, quivering, 419 
Nerveth his arm for life 's combat, who, 

410 
Nest, 280 

affrighted from his, 181 

are chirping in the, 469 

at peep of day, 25 

behold I will build me a, 156 

dangerous to disturb a hornet 's, 186 

down to the baby's, 91 

drove from out the mother's, 106 

in the puttock's, 41 

leaves the well-built, 175 

she has two warm eggs in her, 97 
Nestle with the dove, the hawk shall, 

Nestling so long, where he has been, 64 
Nests upon the ground, pleasure lark- 
like, 316 
Net, here's a fish hangs in the, 214 

the dreamless head, thy fibres, 468 

this, was twisted by the sisters 
three, 127 

of the fowler, is the, 280 
Nets, 280 
Nettle, 280 

the world is a, 449 
Never, 280 

at all to be getting a wife, 16 

better late than, 211 

better once than, 290 

ceaseth to enlarge itself, 53 

did this England, 112 

for ever, 55 

met, or never parted, 37 

to have loved at all, 242 

visit thee, 69 

was on sea or land, 225 

would lay down my arms, 8 
Nevermore, quoth the raven, 17, 19, 

246 
New, 281 

all ain't good thet's, 469 

and happy land, in the, 48 

are tried, by whom the, 126 

birth of our new soil, 8 

boots, like, 161 



New 

books, reading, 31 

came dancing after, 119 

customs, 70 

era, birth of each, 115 

face at the door, 119 

friendship, is neither strong nor pure, 
146 

fortunes, a hazard of, 141 

look amaist as weel 's the, 270 

moon late yestreen, I saw the, 267 

ones hunt folks 's corns out, 161 

or old, if too, 126 

ring in the, 339 

shoes with old riband, tying his, 322 

told, an ancient tale, 400 

we seek for, 46 

when this old ring was, 338 

world into existence, 16 

Year, of all the glad, 256 
New-born and truth, 416 

each second, I 'm, 376 

sun, flush of a, 13 
New England, 281 
Newest kind of ways, the, 367 
New-hatched unfledged comrade, 146 
New-lighted, like the herald Mercury, 

250 
New-made honour doth forget men 's 

names, 275 
Newport News, an unknown grave at, 

a, 373 „ 
News, 281 

on the Rialto, what, 336 

who bringeth him, 319 
Newt, eye of, 179 
Newton, 281 
Next day, till, 26 

the, in majesty, 309 

time you come, the, 338 
Ney, Marshal, 34 
Nice, 281 

too delicately, 345 
Nicholas, Saint, soon would be there, 

Nick, 281 

Nickleby, and among them Mr., 379 

Nigger, 281 

squat on her safety-valve, 346 
Nigh, thou dost not bite so, 24 
Nigher, she knowed the Lord was, 50 
Night, 281, 282 

a bed by, 295 

a cap by, 282 

across the day, beyond the, 463 

all seasons, day and 361 

an atheist half believes a God, by 
14 

and day, to shine by, 245 

another such a, 99 

as darker grows the, 185 

a sound of revelry by, 334 

a sweet vision I saw, 427 

and chill, dark the, 211 

an infant crying in the, 192 

and it is, 18 



6 4 8 



Index 



Night 

are dull as, 273 

away, talked the, 68 

away, the long, long, 105 

before Christmas, 't was the, 51 

boldly say each, 408 

both drear and dark, 26 

breathing through the, 36 

but the blackness of, 207 

came forth on her wedding, 55 

came on a hurricane, one, 188 

Chaos and eternal, 46 

day brought back my, 98 

death-fires danced at, 81 

drinking all, 10 1 

emparadise the, 6s 

ever sence one, 330 

fate of a nation was riding that, 276 

from primeval, 419 

gear, doffs his, 210 

has flown, black bat, 148 

he makes a supper, this, 393 

he that drinks all, 169 

here 's to the, 361 

hideous, making, 268 

how beautiful is, 268 

in England ne'er had been, such, 1 1 1 

in storms, to watch the, 189 

in June, forget that, 7 2 

in the icy air of, 23 

in the forests of the, 405 

in the, imagining, 128 

into the heavy, 313 

is beginning to lower, 50 

is done, comes when the, 73 

is still, the, 23, 52 

is past, the, 269 

like the quarry-slave, at, 227 

my dream of life from morn till, 236 

nature's laws lay hid in, 281 

now I often wish the, 331 

of cloudless climes and starry skies, 

430 
of earth is faded, till the, 429 
oft in the stilly, 258 
of uncreated, 90 
one planet in a starless, 462 
or day, sleep shall neither, 370 
passed a miserable, 99 
sank upon the dusky beach, 1 1 1 
shall be filled with music, 44 
shall be with you that, 116 
she came tearin' along that, 346 
ships that pass in the, 360 
shorter, these make the long, 440 
should have stood that, 95 
shut up the lambs at, 404 
silver lining on the, s6 
silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues 

by, 412 
sleeping woods all, 37 
son of the sable, 81 
steal a few hours from the, 74 
stuck to me day and, 286 
that, affrighted from his nest, 181 
that, at Bunker 's Hill, 40 



Ntght 

that covers me, out of the, 376 

that first we met, the, 343 

that makes me, this is the, 247 

the bell struck in the, 200 

the day, follow as the, 415 

the drowsy ear of, 22 

through the, 17 

toiling upward in the, 177 

to walk the, 380 

unseen, in the, 87 

we parted by, 296 

what of the, watchman, 435 

will hallow the day, the, 442 

worked and sung from morn till, 262 
Nightcap, 282 

Nightcaps, threw up their sweaty, 43 
Night-cloud had lowered, for the, 39 
Night-crow cried, the, 25 
Night-dress, lectures in her, 295 
Night-gown, in his, 443 
Nightingale, 283 

roar you an 't were any, 339 
Nightly, 283 
Night's dominions, mid the, 284 

repose, has earned a, 410 

watching, for this, 362 
Nights and larks are flying, 151 

God made sech, 152 

such as sleep o', 126 
Night-song of mirth, the, 125 
Night-winds sigh, the, 2 
Nihil, has been Vaux et prasterea, 423 
Nile, an allegory on the banks of the, 
6 

my serpent of old, 356 
Nimble wit, you have a, 447 
Nimmed a cloak, who 't was, that, 306 
Ninepence a day for killing folks, 272 
Nineteen nineteen six, annual expen- 
diture, 192 
Nineveh and Tyre, is one with, 139 
Ninth he was born, 'twas the, 348 

moon, with this, 18 

part of a hair, 45 
Niobe, 283 

Nipping and an eager air, 5 
Nips his root, 164 
No, 283 

birds in last year's nest, 280 

creeds to guide them, 220 

man can gather cherries in Kent, 48 

man can help you die, 129 

man relies on, whose word, 202 

man see me more, 122 

man 's pie is freed, 8 

man 's pleasure, for, 39 

man therein doctor, and, 200 

more, may return, 77 

sun, no moon, 285 

to-day, and yet say, 468 
Nobility, 284 
Noble, 284 

and to be, 148 

deeds, this latter age with, 422 

dish, a, 32 



Index 



649 



Noble 

fool, a, was never in a fault, 397 

game, never seeing, 70 

he's as, 248 

horsemanship, the world with, 187 

nook, grant him now some, 149 

savage ran, the, 350 

things, not dream them, do, 374 

thoughts, accompanied with, 403 

to be good, only, 148 

words, like perfect music unto, 273 
Nobleman should do, live cleanly as a, 

346 
Nobleman 's consumption, discontent 

the, 93 
Noblemen to tailors, from, 347 
Nobler modes of life, ring in the, 252 

parts, before the, 148 

than the last, 376 

we attain, to something, 170 

whether 't is, 19 
Nobles, a state without king or, 59 
Noblest cause, undertake the, 143 

mind the best contentment has, 62 

offspring, time 's, 109 

Roman of them all, 341 

thing which perished there, the, 121 

work, her, 211 

work of God, 183 
Nobly, acts, 24 

as the thing is high, 120 
Nobodies, four hundred, were ruined, 

379 
Nobody never made me, do n't think, 

166 
Nobody's tater-patch pokes, an' into, 

356 
Nod, affects to, 155 

to tumble down, with every, 346 

who at thy, 151 
Nodding their heads, 36 
Noddle, comb your, 59 
Noddy, our mayor's a, 256 
Nods and becks, 196 

and winks, one that, 301 
Noise about thy keel, I hear the, 200 

and humming, the city 's rout and, 
264 

hear a, 83 

he spoke 'em, when with hasty, 458 

inexplicable dumb-shows and, 379 

like of a hidden brook, 37 

of the mourning, to the, 271 

of waters, what dreadful, 102 

that with the very, 98 

with it, make no more, 273 
Noiseless falls the foot of time, 406 

tenor of their way, 68 
Noiselessly as the daylight, 73 

as the spring-time, 382 
Noises in a swound, like, 190 
No-isy, 284 

Nominated in the bond, 29 
" Non nobis," let there be sung, 156 
None at all, or, 383 

are so surely caught, 447 



None but himself can be his parallel, 295 

but the brave, 34 

by resignation, 289 

can love, whom, 26 

dares do more is, 72 

go just alike, 434 

or grant me, 124 

would do beside, few or, 159 
Nonsense of their stone ideal, 38s 
Nook, grant him now some noble, 149 

is left, while yet a, no 
Noon, 284 

he fell, from morn to, 122 

no morn, no, 285 

not the blaze of, 4 

riding near her highest, 268 

the bloody sun at, 63 

shadow, which he treads on at, 392 

will look, the, 269 
Noose, to gripe of, 311 
Norman blood, simple faith than, 148 
North, 284 

nail the conscious needle to the, 279 

of 'Fifty- three, runs, 212 

the frozen bosom of the, 444 
Northern sky, the pale glory of the, 
245 

star, constant as the, 62 

whistling, like our harsh, 210 
North-northwest, I am but mad, 245 
Nor' wester, 285 
Nose, 285 

blaspheme custard through the, 322 

down his innocent, 398 

got in his, 142 

led by the, 158 

liberty plucks justice by the, 199 

must often wipe a bloody, 323 

on the doctor's, 94 

turned up in scornful curve, 304 

was as sharp as a pen, his, 359 

with spectacle on, 294 
Nosegays from street to street, hawks, 

343 
Noses, 285 

Nostril all wide, with his, 386 
Not enough to help the feeble, 129 

to be, to be or, 19 

one to throw at a dog, 95 
Note, 285 

deed of dreadful, 83 

every, with sorrow stirred, 340 

for a' that, it lacks a, 248 

not a funeral, 102 

not so strong a, 136 

of him, why then take no, 422 

of me, some, 409 

of praise, swells the, 10 

of thy departure, and no friend take, 
86 

of time, we take no, 407 

slept as sound as if I 'd paid a, 371 

the simplest, 293 
Note-book, set in a 15 
Notes a chiel 's amang you, taking, 317 

with many a winding bout, in, 394 



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Index 



Nothing, 285 

and gives to airy, 308 

before and nothing behind, 288 

but leaves, 215 

but talk of his horse, 187 

can be known, 206 

can we call our own, 80 

first, all at once and, 303 

gives, but, 26 

I confess, 60 

in 't, although there 's, 30 

in the world is single, 366 

in this age, he can do, 352 

is dead, 76 

is known, 77 

long, and, 114 

more, and it was, 316 

more, only this and, 261 

much before, was, 420 

o' the sort, 42 

speaks an infinite deal of, 327 

't is something, 275 

to wear, really and truly I 've, 437 

trust that man in, 62 

up, in drawing, 39 

went unrewarded but desert, 421 

which thou art not, be, 236 
Nothing's so hard, 14 
Notice, and hang a wooden, 345 
Notion, and foolish, 355 

and wishes, I 've a, 388 

so unholy, will not own a, 176 
Notions fudge, in vain we call old, 386 
Nought, it disperse to, 53 

shall make us rue, 112 

to do, ye 've, 305 
Noun, 'twixt participle and, 386 
Nourish all the world, 118 
Nourished by my victuals, one that 
am, 240 

how, 124 

in the womb of pia mater, 258 
Nourisher in life's feast, chief, 370 
Nourishing a youth sublime, 352 
Nourishment which is called supper, 

393 
Novel, 285 
November, 285 

Novice she could say, what to a, 255 
Now and forever, 218 
Nozzle agin the bank, he 'd hold her, 

Null, splendidly, 128 

Number his kisses, who can, 205 

his sins, no one can, 366 
more than ever women spoke, in, 429 

One, to call at, 290 

the stars in the heaven, 205 
Numbers, 286 

brings home full, 425 

I lisped in, 466 

in mournful, 222 

sanctified the crime, 272 
Numbing hands, beats and blows his, 

207 
Nunnery, 286 



Nuptial love maketh mankind, 232 
Nurse it, take it up and, 64 

breed and, 311 

nature 's soft, 370 

of young desire, hope thou, 185 

to rear, to bear, to, 19 

will scratch the, 341 
Nursed, 286 

a dear gazelle, I never, 148 
Nursery, go to their, 247 
Nurse's lap, a monster coiling in its, 

416 
Nurses dangerous humours, 431 

the wife who, 89 
Nursing her wrath, 465 
Nurtures a deep and honest love, 173 
Nut, 286 
Nut-brown ale, the, 6 

ale, the spicy, 6 

bowl, the jolly, 32 
Nutmeg-graters, be rough as, 280 
Nuts and wine, among the, 396 

quarrel with a man for cracking, 322 
Nutrition, to draw, 306 
Nymph, haste thee, 196 
Nymphs, tell me, what power divine, 58 



Oak, 286 

a lumberer felling an, 314 

and holly, where English, 304 

fell the hardest-timbered, 390 

had got a deputy of, 216 

his angle-rod made of a sturdy, 439 

or bend a knotted, 272 

stand, let the old, 398 
Oaken bucket, the old, 39 
Oaks, tall, from little acorns grow, 2 
Oar, 286 

my soul is like the, 376 

spread the thin, 278 
Oars, 286, 287 
Oat-cakes, but Scotch, 352 
Oath, 287 

by yea and nay, her pretty, 306 

obliges not, though an, 394 

that I will have my bond, 29 

to vent, nor was he ever known an, 
345 
Oaths, 287 

are oracles, 29 

are straw, the strongest, 70 

full of strange, 373 

that make the truth, not the many 

417 

they swear fierce, 259 
Oats, nor eat dried, 251 
Obadias, young, David, Josias, 305 
Obdurate heart, no flesh in man 's, 38 
Obedience, and true, 189 

to God, is, 328 

troops of friends, 223 
Obedient to his honest will, not, 454 
Obeisance made he, not the least, 325 



Index 



651 



Obey, 287 

bound to serve, love and, 456 

love, honour and, 45 

to endure, command, to, 113 

woman to, 454 

you proud monarchs must, 81 

you well, the rogues, 280 
Obeyed in office, a dog 's, 289 
Obeys, when she, 400 
Object, for every, 196 
Objection to a pot of beer, have no, 

no 
Obligation to posterity, 311 
Obliges not, though an oath, 394 
Oblivion, alms for, 407 

and mere, 49 
Obscure, they walk, 200 
Obscures, no mist, 268 

the show of evil, 213 
Obscurity, repose in, 114 
Observance of civility, use all the, 
372 

than in the, 70 
Observation, 287 

attempt at an, 389 

that youth and, 331 
Observations which ourselves we 

make, to, 445 
Observed, if he be, 161 

of all observers, the, 263 

he is a great, 126 
Observer 's sake, we grow more partial 

for th', 445 
Observers, the observed of all, 263 
Obsoletest words, revive the, 379 
Obstinacy, 287 

Obstruction, to lie in cold, 90 
Obtain or die, I knew but to, 233 
Occasion, 287 

and have more, 238 

courage mounteth with, 65 

for his wit, 196 

to forbear, 138 

upon the mellowing of, 258 
Occasions, 288 

flog them upon all, 135 

frame my face to all, 118 

he had cleaned out the town, on 
several, 350 

new, teach new duties, 281 
Occupation, absence of, 333 
Occupation 's gone, Othello's, 125 
Occupations, pause in the day 's, 50 
Ocean, 288 

like the round, 268 

naked breadth of the, 99 

of life, so on the, 360 

of truth, the great, 417 

or grasp the, 263 

paths, long lay the, 245 

resembles, 377 

ship upon a painted, 359 

the dark unfathomed caves of, 149 

to be upon the, 388 

will all great Neptune's, 169 
Ocean-bird, like the, 354 



Ocean 's cheek, the crimson streak on, 
73 

dreamless ooze, in, 299 

misty tears, 10 1 

my home, the, 4 
October, 288 

falls with the leaf . . .in, 372 
Odd numbers, divinity in, 286 

numbers, there 's luck in, 286 

the people 's voice is, 301 
Oddities, storehouse of comical, 16 
Oddity, frolic and fun, 197 
Odds, facing fearful, 89 

with morning, almost at, 282 
Odious, in woollen, 75 

she and comparisons are, 60 
Odour, stealing and giving, 273 
Odourous, comparisons are, 60 
Odours crushed, as, 191 

had blown its gentle, 408 

virtue is like precious, 427 
CEdipus-people is coming fast, 301 
O'er again, all his battles, 19 

when it's, 94 
O'ercast, the smile that no cloud can, 

31 
O'erdoing Termagant, for, 379 
O'erdriven, pity for a horse, 187 
O'erdusted, gilt, 103 
O'erflowing, without, full, 84 
O'ergreen my bad, so you, 160 
O'erleaps itself, vaulting ambition 

which, 7 
O'erloaded asses, nations like, 55 
O'er-perch these walls, did I, 239 
O'erstep not the modesty of nature, 

278 
O'erthrown, what a noble mind is here, 

263 
Off with his head, 171 
Offence, 289 

and forgave the, 289 

be pardoned and retain the, 295 

forgive my foul, 429 

from amorous causes springs, dire, 

is a sour, 346 

is rank, my, 272 

sufficient ransom for, 37s 

the visage of, 260 

tongue did make, 118 

yet detest th', 289 
Offences, 289 
Offend, broken into shards if we, 107 

to flatter or, 46 
Offender, 289 

the, never pardons, 140 
Offending soul alive, the most, 185 
Offends me to the soul, it, 379 
Offer of kindness to make to a woman, 

you friendship, of all who, 146 
Office, 289 

by virtue of your, 401 
hath but a losing, 281 
is to interpret law, 198 



652 



Index 



Office 

of a wall, 112 

placed, in, 386 

the ascent to high, 305 

the insolence of, 323 

the lust of, 259 

the spoils of, 259 

to git some on 'em, 11 

truly by your, 401 
Officer, 289 

thief doth fear each bush an, 394 
Offices for gold, sell and mart your, 

294 
Official, 289 
Officials, 289 
Offspring, time 's noblest, 109 

true source of human, 437 
Oft, yet seen too, 425 
Often told, and, 15 
Oftener you come here, 59 
O'Grady, his uncle an, 348 
Oil, after my flame lacks, 228 

and the twopence, without the, 349 

consumed the midnight, 215 

from Lucca crown, the spoon with, 
349 

lavished life's best, 416 

of mid-day sun and midnight, 409 

this cruse of, 12 

vinegar, sugar and saltness agree, 
349 
Oils, like a witch 's, 81 
Oily, 289 
Old, 290 

age, accompany, 223 

age is still old age, 4 

age ne'er cools, 4 

age of cards, and, 462 

age past, 155 

age, that which should accompany, 
223 

a head, body with so, 171 

and rich, when thou art, 336 

and the stars are, 240 

as I am, for ladies' love unfit, 20 

as I am, my lusty limbs appear, 357 

aside, last to lay the, 126 

as the ten commandments, 59 

but his experience, 198 

but she may learn, not yet so, 215 

clock on the stair, 55 

come forth to play, 71 

days, the reverence of, 121 

fashions please me best, 126 

friends are best, 146 

grow, along with me, 24 

grow dear as they grow, 14 

growing in drawing nothing up, 39 

hugged by the, 157 

Hundred ring, when he made, 50 

if too new or, 126 

in the brave days of, 341 

in times of, 69 

let young and, 150 

loved the place of, 175 

man, a good, 397 



Old 

man, a poor, infirm, weak and des- 
pised, 310 

man, a very foolish fond, 251 

man, broken with storms, 29 

man do but die, 4 

man, do n't think the poetry is dead 
in an, 309 

man, do wi an, 211 

man eloquent, that, 108 

man is twice a child, an, 250 

man, that is an, 183 

man, the sorrows of a poor, 375 

men, wale of, 130 

men are to this vice of lying, 244 

men fools, young men think, 469 

men 's dream, the, 98 

men shall dream dreams, 98 

oaken bucket, the, 39 

of all the living, young or, 228 

old fashion, the, 191 

one, no fool like the, 137 

one of them is fat and grows, 259 

opinions, rags and tatters, no, 143 

read in story, 15 

riband, tying his new shoes with, 
322 

ring out the, 339 

sakes' sake, for, 96 

sat Freedom, of, 144 

say I 'm growing, 204 

shoes, used to call for his, 146 

South Church, shall freedom stand 
in the, 32 

tale and often told, 15 

the face grows, 211 

the saying wise and, 28 

the troubadours of, 414 

though I look, 357 

when you are, 131 

without a friend, 462 

with service, weary and, 153 

woman knew what he said, the, 
326 

world, redress the balance of the, 16 

Year went mourning by, 119 
Olden time, all of the, 149 
Older a guv'ment is, th', 161 

fashion yet, for that, 191 

than we, of those who were, 236 

that one grows, the, 212 
Oldest kind of sins, commit the, 367 
Old-particular brandy-punchy feeling, 

129 
Old-world moulds aside she threw, 179 
Olives they were not blind to Him, 

the, 458 
Olympus-high, hills of seas, 400 
Omen, dark and high, what, 398 
Once, 290 

a year, for Christmas comes but, 52 

departed, and, 77 

has loved, who, 117 

heaved, hearts but, 77 

I '11 play the housewife for this, 188 

in doubt, to be, 97 



Index 



653 



Once 

man can die but, 89 

that Peter was respected, 128 

to every man and nation, 83 

utter the I, where you, 319 
One, 290 

and inseparable, 218 

and the heart but, 281 

another, and each for, 418 

apple had she, only, 115 

bee in a hive, with, 184 

blush there was but, 434 

bottom trusted, not in, 424 

by one, ye must pay for, 365 

day end it, will, 109 

don't take at Number, 13 

eagle's fate and mine are, 106 

feast, one house, 170 

fell swoop, 49 

foot in the grave, 164 

for sense and one for rhyme, 335 

God, one law, one element, 322 

grew before, where only, 162 

heart, I have, 174 

heart, one bed, 174 

he seemed to be not, 114 

hour ten, grief makes, 165 

I '11 get better, for, 329 

incorporate two in, 53 

I never knew but, 145 

I shall find, 79 

life shall be destroyed, not, 160 

life, one flag, one fleet, one throne, 
133 

man, the wit of, 320 

man picked out of, 183 

man 's poison, what 's, 309 

man with God is a majority, 247 

many still must labour for the, 
207 

more evil turn, wants but, 173 

of the twenty, than to be, 397 

of two things, on, 449 

of us, shall, 36 

party, he 's been true to, 62 

place there is, 114 

planet in a starless night, 462 

poor hole, trusts to, 271 

returns to tell us, not, 72 

small head could carry, 456 

spot where I made, 152 

step, nor from hell, 178 

the day but, 281 

thing, now it is not, 308 

thing to be tempted, 't is, 400 

thing we both may loathe, 409 

thought no more of being, 241 

touch of nature, 278 

virtue, linked with, 64 

with Nineveh and Tyre, 139 

yard below their mines, no 
One-horse shay, the wonderful, 46 
Onion atoms lurk, let, 349 

the tears live in an, 398 
Onions, garlic, roach and dace, 32 

mine eyes smell, 438 



Onward, they must upward still and, 

281 
Oonalaska 's shore, wolf 's long howl 

from, 449 
Ooze, in ocean 's dreamless, 299 
Oozing out, I feel it, 423 
Ope his mouth, he could not, 33s 

my lips, when I, 291 
Open air, God of the, 155 

all ways do lie, 267 

and both free, 84 

as day, a hand, 161 

as the sea, 267 

or understood, war, 43 r 

question, is not marriage an, 253 

the door is, 96 

the door of thy heart, 240 

the door with shame, 96 

the gates are mine to, 276 

their thousand leaves, 383 

then the door, 77 

the old cigar-box, 53 

thy heart and door, 242 

war, my sentence is for, 430 

which I with sword will, 293 
Opened, and kept open, 31 
Opening in the thatch, an, 68 

paradise, to him are, 293 

roar, the cannon's, 12 
Opens his vasty jaws, this hungry war, 
432 

wide, threatening to devour me, 178 
Opinion, 290 

he gave it for his, 162 

of God, better to have no, 153 

to be dressed in an, 291 

what is your, Mrs. Grundy, 345, 
393 

with Pythagoras to hold, 378 
Opinions, 290 

and a will, who possess, 259 

of mankind, respect to the, 356 

old, no, 143 

stiff in, 114 

with a wager, back their own, 429 
Opportunities, a woman with fair, 25s 
Oppose, fat pig and goose itself, 322 

my patience to his fury, 298 
Opposed may beware of thee, that the, 

322 
Opposing, and by, 19 

and enduring forces, 60 
Opposite, still so perverse and, 302 
Oppress, dumps the mind, 166 
Oppressed, 290 

Oppression and deceit, rumor of, 229 
Oppressor's wrong, the, 323 
Oracle, 291 

Oracles, his oaths are, 29 
Orations, make no long, 32 
Orator, 291 
Orb, in her circled, 268 

of one particular tear, in the small, 
398 
Orbed maiden with white fire laden, 
that, 268 



654 



Index 



Orbs of flame, and its, 419 

a shadow lies, in whose, 246 
Orcades, in Scotland, at the, 284 
Orchard, sleeping within my, 4 

the meadow, the, 49 
Orchard-robbing, then 's the time for, 

386 
Orchestra business, that has no, 210 
Ordain, drinking joys did first, 16 
Ordained the Sabbath, he who, 310 
Order, 291 

honour, civil right, law an', 212 

nominate in, 218 

of your going, stand not upon the, 
157 

Reverends of every, 75 

this matter better in France, they, 
142 

to haud the wretch in, 184 
Orders grey, friar of, 145 

to perform, the Almighty's, 388 
Ore, I hammer the, 386 

the purest, 41 
Oregon, where rolls the, 74 
Organ, 291 

came from the soul of the, 51 

'gins to swell, the, 264 

rings, and the, 264 

will speak with most miraculous, 
272 
Organ-pipe of frailty, from the, 273 

thunder that deep and dreadful, 405 
Organs, 291 

dimensions, 197 
Oriflamme to-day, be your, 308 
Original, 291 

is dust, when the, 123 

proclaim, their great, 132 
Orion, 291 

Ormus and of Ind, wealth of, 107 
Ornament, needs not the foreign aid 
of, 3 

thereunto, a help and a, 318 

to be a moment 's, 302 

with fair, 330 
Orphan, for his widow and his, 337 
Orpheus, who found no remedy, 279 
Orthodox, flashing conviction, 314 

prove their doctrine, 329 
Orthodoxy, 291 

Osawatomie Brown raised his right 
hand, 424 

Brown said, Boys, the Lord will 
aid us, 38 
O'Shaughnessy, his aunt was an, 348 
Osprey to the fish, as is the, 278 
Ostent, well studied in a sad, 372 
Othello's jealous doubt spout out, 115 

occupation's gone, 125 
Other dear charmer away, 47 

people, no more piety than, 52 

things give place, all, 209 
Others . . . because they never part- 
ed, 295 

declare, while, 348 

does not infringe the rights of, 338 



Others misfortunes and pains of, 265 

must not leave it to, 96 

on lips that are for, 205 

roar aloud, 36 

said No, 317 

see us, as, 355 

show, that mercy I to, 260 

suspect the thoughts of, 51 

that we know not of, 79 

where are the, 163 
Others' good, glow for, 174 
Otherwise, I cannot do, 383 
Ought, not because he, 159 

to, an' so we 'd, in 

to be, it is but had n't, 346 
Ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold 

each, 177 
Our country, right or wrong, 65 
Ours, and they are, no 

for ours is thine and mine, 235 

the sea is, 353 
Ourselves, but in, 127 

do lie, our remedies oft, 330 

to see, 355 

'tis in, 127 
Out, 292 

and Maggie and I are, 53 

and such as are, 253 

damned spot, out I say, 382 

mordre wol, 272 

of the jaws of death, 80 

truth will, 417 
Outbuilds the pyramids, virtue alone, 

322 
Outcast, 292 

Outdone, human justice thus, 155 
Outer distance, there lies an, 178 
Outface it with their semblances, 394 

them and outswear them too, 292 
Outgrows the garments which it wore, 

381 
Out-herods Herod, it, 180 
Outlawed, nor be, 64 
Outlive his life half a year, 258 
Outlived in fame, 123 
Outlives pain, truth, 415 

this day, he that, 66 
Outrages, known to commit, 101 
Outrun by violent swiftness, we may, 
292 

the constable at last, thou hast, 62 
Outshone the wealth of Ormus, 107 
Outside, a swashing and a martial, 394 

of that, limitless space, 178 

of his hand, 158 

what a goodly, 122 
Outstretched, with his arms, 167 
Outswear, 292 
Out-talk us all, this gentleman will, 

396 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, 368 
Outward walls, banners on the, 17 
Outweighs, what empire far, 317 
Ouzel sings, where the, 419 
Oven stopped, like an, 298 
Oven 's mouth, sing at the, 66 



Index 



655 



Overcome him, enough to, 101 

us like a summer's cloud, 56 
Overcomes by force, who, 139 
Overflows, and its secret, 173 
Overhaul your catechism, 45 
Overhead, that God is, 77 
Overloaded, undermanned, meant to 

founder, 115 
Over-polite to his customers, 15 
Overpowered, thousands had sunk on 

the ground, 39 
Overrunning, 292 
Overthrow the head, than, 335 
Overthrowing me, by, you threw me 

higher, 316 
Overthrown more than your enemies, 

465 
Overtrusting, to worth in woman, 452 
Overwhelmed in the strife, 61 
Owe, 292 

God a death, we, 89 
Owes, 292 

that dear perfection which he, 275 
Owest, lend less than thou, 362 

me thy love, thou, 292 
Oweth to her husband, such a woman, 

„ , 454 
Owl, 292 

he is the human, 70 

scream, heard the, 83 

shrieked at thy birth, 25 

was by a mousing, 121 
Owlet 's wing, 179 
Owlets flit, the blind, 446 
Owls, answer him, ye, 282 
Own, 292 

a wish that she had hardly dared 
to, 446 

blood, he forfeits his, 27 

feather on the fatal dart, 106 

hand of Douglas is his, 97 

it seems so like my, 78 

the happy lines, let a lord once, 231 

the ocean, tu, we, 288 

the soft impeachment, 191 

this hind of princes peer, make me, 
324 
Owning her weakness, 351 
Owns, he 's only a pauper whom no- 
body, 298 

it in the first degree, no creature, 284 
Ox, 292 

a brother to the, 388 

might fell an, 248 
Oxen, who drives fat, 126 
Oxlips, and the nodding violet, 17 
Oyster, 292, 293 

as your pearl in your foul, 183 



Pace at first, requires slow, 55 
creeps in this petty, 411 
in running, every, 344 
'round the forbidden place, 292 



Pace, time 's, is so hard, 407 

will not mend his, 33 
Paced into the hall, 36 
Paces, travels in divers, 406 

two, of the vilest earth, 381 
Pachas, the khan and the, 63 
Pack, as a huntsman his, 145 

o' rotten plates, 115 
Pagan, 293 
Page, 293 

on the deathless, 418 

prescribed, all but the, 127 
Pageant, like this insubstantial, 428 
Pages stand mute, and, 317 

vacant, every life has, 221 
Pagoda, by the old Moulmein, 251 
Paid, 293 

by another, shall be, 199 

dear, very dear for his whistle, 440 

in full, Lord God, we ha', 113 

pleasure will be, 307 

Paul, by robbing Peter he, 302 
Pail, frozen home in, 190 
Pain, 293 

all the dull deep, 109 

and anguish wring the brow, when, 
453 

a peace out of, 78 

and woe, source of all his, 283 

as a heart must be tried by, 158 

aye, to the conscience, 390 

balms for all our, 470 

breathe their words in, 105 

but wretchedness and, 76 

darkness and cold, 78 

error wounded writhes in, 415 

is lessened, one, 131 

it is the worst of, 243 

it was to drown, 102 

most human, in, 234 

never mind the, 135 

nor pleasure, have neither, 369 

sure heirs of, 59 

supreme, its loss must be the, 234 

sweet is pleasure after, 16 

that is not akin to, 37s 

that never feels a, 448 

the bliss of dying, the, 105 

the tender for another 's, 392 

thou shalt live in thy, 69 

though full of, 90 

to bear an untried, 436 

to the bear, not because it gave, 321 

too soon we part with, 360 

truth outlives, 415 

victor over death and, 199 
Painful still, not to love nor, 243 
Pain's resistless power, 175 
Pains, died in bitter, 109 

grow sharp, when, 224 

it stings you for your, 280 

my soul below, the wrong that, 1 60 

of others, misfortunes and, 265 

pay me for my, 104 

reading, study, 67 

she gave me for my, 363 



6 5 6 



Index 



Paint an inch thick, let her, 468 

no words can, 459 

the lily, to, 152 

the town red, 102 
Painted blind, winged Cupid, 69 

fair, angels are, 452 

ship, as idle as a, 359 
Painter, 294 

plays the spider, 168 
Painter's brush, needs no, 152 
Painters have fashioned, the, 207 
Painting of a sorrow, 118 
Paintings too, heard of your, 118 
Pair, 294 

a youthful, loving, modest, 402 

kindest and the happiest, 138 

more close than wedded, 376 

of stairs, have they made a, 242 

that once was white, the, 153 
Palace and a prison on each hand, a, 
424 

in such a gorgeous, 30 

is, the hollow oak our, 286 

love in a, 235 

of the soul, the, 367 
Palaces, the gorgeous, 428 
Pale, 294 

and white and cold, 74 

at the raven 's tale, and she grew, 
326 

at which the world grew, 274 

cast of thought, 61 

grew thy cheek and cold, 296 

his ineffectual fire, 153 

index-learning turns no student, 192 

unripened beauties of the North, 



Palinure 's unaltered mood, with, 304 
Pall, and shroud and, 362 

carry the warrior's. 271 

mute by the canopied, 317 

the hillside for a, 184 
Pallas, 294 

perched upon a bust of, 325 
Pall Mall, 294 
Palm, 294 

bear the, 38 

do not dull thy, 146 

is hardly clean, 36 

of the brave, have carried the, 133 
Palms across thy breast, 35 

in air, lift their fronded, 43 

of my hands, at the, 423 
Palm-trees, but over the scud and the, 
113 

the wind is in the, 252 
Palmy well, Rachel by the, 120 
Palpable hit, a very, 180 
Palpitation, with a mailed heel its, 413 
Palter with us, that, 318 
Paltered with eternal God for power, 

nor, 418 
Pan, 294 

out on the prophets, I don't, 330 
Panel, more ready to hang the, 199 
Panes, blazoned on the, 291 



Pang, and every, 185 

as great, a, 80 

from thine, to steal one, 10 

nor account the, 328 

of sorrow, the, 390 
Pangs of despised love, 323 

of nature, to, 160 
Pannelled door, no spiked and, 3 1 
Pans, pots, dishes, 16 
Pansies, 294 
Pantaloon, 294 
Pantler, she was both, 71 
Pants, 294 
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and 

prism, 85 
Paper, goose-quill, ink and, 317 

he hath not eat, 30 

in a sheet of, 336 

is published in Catherine Street, 
the, 294 

leaves, and not on, 24 

make dust our, 164 

of uncertain, 123 

whiter than the, 169 
Paper-mill, thou hast built a, 317 
Papers, lawyer, draw up the, 292 
Parade, you henceforth may, 108 
Paradise, 295 

and walked in, 105 

enow, wilderness were, 85 

graved in, 73 

of clouds, and left a, 353 

sigh for the Prophet 's, 44 

to him are opening, 293 

to me, earth seems a, 360 
Parallel, 295 
Paraphrasing, moanin' and groanin' 

and, 309 
Parasites, the odious, 425 
Parchment, 295 
Pard, bearded like the, 373 
Pardon after execution, like a, 59 

all that 's past, thy God will, 429 

but they ne'er, 140 

for the foes who hate, with a, 363 

left, none for, 332 

or to bear it, to, 405 
Pardoned, 295 

again, has sinned and is, 247 

being down, or, 260 
Pardons, the offender never, 140 
Parent, but be a, 153 

knees, on, 227 

of good, thy glorious works, 461 
Parent's breast, which on the, 378 
Parents', my, or my own, 466 
Paris famous, a street there is in, 
389 

like a perfumed, 28 
Parish church, plain as way to, 441 

pound, driven to church as to the, 

swallowed the whole, 133 
Park, and from the dark, 115 

quick -glancing o'er the, 410 
Parley or dissemble, pause to, 87 



Index 



657 



Parliament, a seat in, 42 

of man, in the, 433 
Parlour, 295 

or study, built in your, 212 
Parlous boy, 33 

Parnassus, the true horse of, 44s 
Parrot, 295 

may rehearse, a, 397 
Parrot's call, whistle back the, 3s ° 
Parsley to stuff a rabbit, 254 
Parson, 295 

he's a rare man, our, 250 

made it his text, the, 2 19 

owned his skill, the, 12 

Wilbur sez he never heerd, 1 1 
Parson 's gown, texts enough to wear 

a, 401 
Part, 29s, 296 

accept their, 150 

act well your, 184 

again, never to, 340 

always wise in every, 277 

and then to, 221 

and yet are loth to, 376 

a silent and desperate, 61 

a stage where every man must play 
a, 463 

as he has about him, as tender a, 180 

a truth, a lie which is, 219 

before we, 203 

come let us kisse and, 203 

for ever, to-night, 211 

from mine, shall never, 203 

is too precise in every, 364 

know that thou and I must, 220 

love in which my hound has, 187 

no little, that implement hath had, 
467 

not, from its present pathway, 236 

of his plan, consistency still was a, 
62 

of life, but as a, 232 

they must, 376 

thy knotted and combined locks to, 
380 

't is hard to, 220 

to act a lover s or a Roman 's, 236 

to play sc ill a, 116 

us now, shall a light word, 146 

to see her sparrow, 398 

with life to, 185 

with that, I cannot, 91 

with pain, too soon we, 360 
Parted, 296 

by barriers strong, 339 

from us, no 

mine never shall be, 134 

or never, 37 

others . . . because they never, 295 

seeming, 224 
Partial for the observer's sake, we 

grow, 445 
Participation of office, if a due, 289 
Participle and noun, 'twixt, 386 
Parties, both, deprecated war, 431 

meet, the high contracting, 253 



Parting, 296 

breath, what is death but, 77 

day, knell of, 69 

gleam of sunshine, the, in 

guest by the hand, shakes his, 167 

guest, speed the, 167 

our, was all sob and sigh, 296 

soul relies, the, 35 

was well made, 125 

was woe, the, 338 
Partings, 296 
Partington, 296, 297 
Partitions do their bounds divide, thin, 
245 

thin, sense from thought divide, 245 
Partridge in the puttock 's nest, 41 
Partridge-breeders of a thousand years , 

231 
Parts, 297 

all his gracious, 165 

all these good, 443 

allure thee, if, 123 

before the nobler, 148 

plays many, 383 

some mark of virtue on his outward, 
42s 

were in six, 103 

with polished manners, improves 
our, 234 
Party, 297 

a, or a thriving lie, 42 

he's been true to one, 62 

leaders all they mean, and, 315 

none was for a, 341 

strife, ancient forms of, 339 

we join ourselves to no, 420 
Pass among the guests, 152 

and repass, obstinately sullen, 282 

and speak one another, we, 360 

and turn again, and, 368 

away, blaze and, 123 

away, war may speedily, 199 

blocked up the, 76 

by me as the idle wind, they, 404 

for a man, let him, 251 

for a' that, will not, 249 

in the night, ships that, 360 

to bring such visionary scenes to, 
266 

your proper jest, 67 
Passage, allures the bird of, 25 

a quiet, 9 

leaves some trace of its, 138 

must work their, 176 

until you find that, 45 
Passed all pleasure by, 321 

away, will have, 86 

beside the reverend walls, 161 

in music, 241 

my soul hath, 375 

o'er me and you, have, 333 

on the river, never be, 329 

the loveliest pair, 294 

the strong heroic soul away, so, 377 
Passenger, he shall not be a mere, 54 
Passeth show, that within that, 448 



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Index 



Passing by the customary hassock, 
312 

fair, is she not, 120 

through nature to eternity, 89 

wise, I know him, 28 
Passion, 297 

a fop their, 462 

allay the fire of, 327 

all vile degraded, 143 

and pride were to her soul un- 
known, 453 

burns, and now, 330 

but pining, 63 

chaos of thought and, 462 

clasp, something with, 48 

every fierce tumultuous, 298 

his, and his theme, 217 

in a dream of, 307 

move, might my, 237 

of eternity, to feel the, 402 

there is not a, 114 

the whirlwind of, 379 

the wine of, 324 

to tatters, tear a, 379 

woman loves her lover, in her first, 
232 
Passionate intuition, become a, 121 
Passion's host, and, 367 
Passions, 297, 298 

all, all thoughts, 234 

are the horses, our, 56 

burn, when once their slumbering, 
300 

senses, affections, 197 

told, ere they their, 414 

were in us, when the tiger, 392 
Past all dishonour, 20 

and gone, mourn a mischief that is, 
271 

as wholly wasted, 170 

bury its dead, 147 

but mockeries of the, 455 

but 'tis, 211 

grief, should be, 166 

has power, upon the, 221 

leave thy low-vaulted, 376 

our dancing days, 71 

rehearsal of the, 18 

repent what 's, 60 

she to heaven has, 105 

the, the future, 222 

the link that binds her to the, 258 

the tyrant 's stroke, 146 

these dark days are, 237 

who seeks repentence for the, 332 

with the water that is, 434 
Paste and cover, 80 
Pastime, break a country heart for, 
_ i74 

Past 's blood-rusted key, with the, 281 
Pasture now, they sell the, 187 

on the rocks, to, 325 
Pastures new, fresh woods and, 458 
Pat in, gliding all so, 210 
Patch a wall, should, 421 

grief with proverbs, 165 



Patch hearts that are breaking, 175 

I have a trifling, 68 
Patched, before it was so, 128 
Patches, a king of shreds and, 202 

set upon a little breach, 128 
Patching fig-leaves for the naked truth, 

416 
Pate and fancy wit will come, beat 
your, 447 

knock his leek, about his, 216 

made by a good old, 149 

or I will peat his, 216 
Paternoster Row, the proprietor lives 

in, 294 
Pates, fat paunches have lean, 298 
Path, 298 

each one its devious, 339 

ever followed in her, 143 

in yon straight, 37 

lies, where'er my, 116 

my, might cross with thine, 230 

of duty be the way to glory, 104 

of duty, to the straight, 104 

of labour, they who tread the, 207 

of life is dirty, the public, 92 

of sorrow, the, 3 74 

your purple shows your, 413 
Paths, of all the, 303 

of glory lead, 163 

of men, lies upon the, 138 

to glide, in the church-way, 282 
Pathway, from its present, 236 

may beat a, 214 

the star that lights a desert, 338 

through the strife, cleaves a, 390 

white, flashing o'er the, 23 

with those dreadful urs, do n't strew 
your, 62 
Patience, 298 

abusing of God 's, 113 

constant anguish of, 109 

he stands waiting, with, 262 

is the honest man's revenge, 33s 

must have had, wondrous, 414 

of her, and I want but, 2 78 

wins the race, 302 

with sech swellin' fellers, no, 156 
Patient, 298 

dreading praise, 8 

eyes, perplexed and, 118 

showed us, there, 91 
Patriarchs of the infant world, with, 

334 
Patriot, art thou a man, a, 182 

the profession of a, 298 

too cool, for a, 141 
Patriotism, 298 

Patriot 's boast, such is the, 182 
Patriots all, true, 64 
Patron to advise, his mistaken, 397 
Pattens, with mop and, 296 
Patter, cheep, like little mice, her feet 
fell, 129 

of the rain, by the, 325 
Pattern is sold, the, 211 

of mine own thoughts, by the, 321 



Index 



659 



Paul, by robbing Peter he paid, 302 

I give it, 91 

preaches that Peter and, 26 
Paunches, 298 
Pauper, 298 
Pause, must give us, 98 

in the day's occupations, 50 

to parley or dissemble, 87 
Paved with good intentions, 193 
Pavements fanged with murderous 

stones, 387 
Paw is all the law, the lion's, 226 
Pay for one by one, ye must, 365 

for what they stole before, and, 
320 

full-weight-dollar debts with, 96 

her every farthing I owe her, I will, 
278 

I will be ever to, 63 

me for my pains, 104 

my debts to, 232 

no debts, words, 459 

the rate of his, 390 

our lives we, 177 

still, and yet, 65 

thy poverty, I, 311 

you some, and I will, 318 
Pavment, too little, 189 
Pays all debts, 82 
Peace, 298-300 

adieu, live in, 292 

a good war or a bad, 430 

among ourselves, a just and lasting, 
337 

and good will, 52 

and slept in, 185 

anger at, 208 

bread and, 35 

combine, when friendship, love and, 
442 

commerce and honest friendships. 6 

desires mere easy, 390 

first in, 132 

foe of, 143 

God gave her, 323 

henceforward, therefore be at, 433 

I knew, all the, 331 

in obscurity, in, 1 14 

its ten thousands, 431 

little blessed with the soft phrase of, 
380 

long, I find, 431 

lover of, 432 

makes a solitude and calls it, 373 

means of preserving, 432 

of God was in his looks, 75 

of the land, and the, 373 

out of pain, shall become, 78 

profession of the creed of, 42 

said that an unjust, 430 

so sweet, or, 217 

spirits of, where are, 381 

the strange, white solitude of, 369 

to pray, for this world's, 366 

to sleep, in, 84 

waits us, 333 



Peace 

was never gentle lamb more mild, 
in, 432 

was slain, thrice my, 12 

went with them, 167 

where they should kneel for, 456 
Peaceable way for you, the most, 401 
Peaceful, 300 

evening in, welcome, 116 

lake, pebble stirs the, 53 

shall I sleep, 84 
Peace-maker, your if is the only, 218 
Peacemakers, necessity, thou best of, 

279 
Peach that 's got the yellers, like a, 256 
Peak to peak, from, 405 
Peaks, between the cold and barren, 
222 

of song, the long reaches of the, 207 
Peal of bells below, a single, 23 

on peal, how the great guns, 23 
Pealing anthem swells the note of 
praise, 10 

folded in the mist, 23 

loud again, now, 52 
Pearl, 300 

and gold, barbaric, 107 

and gold, with pomp of, 353 

a sea of melting, 399 

heaps of, 102 

if all their sand were, 197 

in your foul oyster, as your, 183 

is gone, out of which the, 375 

prince he rises with his, 93 

the all, the, 375 
Pearls, pale glistening, 354 
Peasant, 300 

has yielded, to the fate of the, 317 
Peasantry, 300 

Peasants, from the hard hands of, 267 
Peat whiskey hot, 440 
Pebble, finding a smooth, 417 

into its depths like a, 173 

stirs the peaceful lake. 53 

underneath our feet, epics in each, 
460 
Peccadilloes are unknown, where, 367 

of all Piccadilly, 367 
Peck at the shells, the young shall, 97 

at, for daws to, 371 

birds best, 393 

in safeguard of their brood, doves 
will, 463 
Pecking the hand that hovers, 97 
Pedigree, 300 

wi' a lang, 210 
Peeling, the fruit were scarce worth, 

386 
Peep about, and. 58 

of day, nest at, 25 

to what it would, can but, 202 
Peeping in at morn, the sun came, 330 
Peer, King Stephen was a worthy, 
387 

make me own this hind of princes, 
324 



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Index 



Peered forth the golden windows of the 

east, 393 
Peering in maps for ports and piers, 

444 
Peers, fare like my, 78 
Peevish boy, ne'er a, 107 

by being, 264 
Pegasus, a fiery, 187 
Peggie hawks nosegays from street to 

street, 343 
Pelf, 300 

despite those titles, power and, 65 

do anything for, 247 

on all sid?s that give places or, 62 
Pembroke 's mother, 180 
Pen, 301 

and ink, good at, 92 

devise, wit, write, 466 

glorious by my, 124 

hard-nibbed, with a, 347 

his nose was as sharp as a, 359 

if of all words of tongue and, 346 

may write, than the, 174 

of all sad words of tongue or, 346 

the poet's, 308 

saddest of tongue or, 346 

traced with his golden, 418 

Tre, Pol and, 63 
Penalty and forfeit of my bond. 83 

hath full relation to the, 213 
Penance for her sins, in, 208 
Pence, although he gave but, 266 
Pendent rock, a, 56 

world, the, 90 
Pendulum, seizing the ever-swinging, 

4°3 
Penitence, 301 

Penned, conceived but never. 434 
Penniless lass, a, 210 
Penny, 301 

in purse, a. 65 

sold for a, 130 
Pension, 301 

Pent-house lid, hang upon his, 370 
Penury, 301 
People, 301 

all exulting, the, 43 

are free, his, 405 

for the benefit of the, 289 

golden opinions from all sorts of, 
290 

governed by grave magistrates, 59 

government of the, 276 

have made, laws which the, 289 

lie beckoned to the, 419 

I am not of this, 4 

necessary for one, 356 

now-a-days, young, 469 

of customers, raising up a, 361 

officials are the trustees of the, 289 

ought to guard their noses, 285 

proud, to meet a, 299 

ready enough, you find, 349 

that make puns are like wanton 
boys, 321 

the duped, 106 



People 

the servants and agents of the, 289 
the sunbeams, the gay motes that, 

270 
they that marry ancient, 254 
who cannot afford to play cards for 



People 's blood, sucks and drains a, 64 

gain, and the, 276 

prayer, the, 98 
Peoples, wherever rise the, 144 
Peppercorn, I am a, 53 
Peppers, red, 32 

Pequot's ringing whoop, the, 181 
Perceive here a divided duty, 104 
Perceiving, in the art of, 54 
Perch, where eagles dare not, 106 
Perched and sat and nothing more 

32s 
Perdition catch my soul, 239 
Perfect, 302 

days, then if ever come, 199 

in our kind, were, 304 

man, an honest and a, 127 

may be, singly, 308 

music unto noble words, like, 273 

picture to see him lie, 96 

wife, they make a, 443 

woman nobly planned, a, 454 
Perfected, all mankind alike is, 318 

by death, life is, 206 
Perfecteth it, friendly love, 232 
Perfection, 302 

dead, 128 

lies in him, fullness of, 168 

none must hope to find, 128 

of reason, the law which is the, 327 

retain that dear, 275 
Perfidious bark, fatal and, 18 
Perform, his wonders to, 154 

it, thou mayst perhaps, 429 

the Almighty 's orders to, 388 
Perfume, 302 

on the violet, 152 

that 's all, 54 

to pride, wafts, 385 
Perfumed Paris, than like a, 28 
Perfumes of Arabia, all the, 169 
Peril, 302 

all for thee, before I, 127 

all of man 's, 21 

at life 's dear, 416 

of water, wind and rocks, there is 
the, 359 
Perilous edge of battle, 19 
Perils, 302 

Periods fall on you, his, 314 
Perish, a hero, 38 

all, whose breast, 35 

as they died, or, 128 

clasp or, 48 

from the earth, shall not, 276 

rather than let it, 431 

rather, to, 90 

Rome shall, 342 



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66 1 



Perish, shall never wane and, 276 

survive or, 366 

there too, or, 9 
Perished, the blithe days of boyhood, 
33i 

there, the noblest thing which, 121 
Perishing unheard, 434 
Perjuries, 302 
Perjtiry, 302 

Jove, but laughs at lovers', 302 
Permanent, better and more, 450 
Pernicious woman, O most, 452 
Perplexed and patient, 118 

in faith, but pure in deeds, 97 
Perseverance, 302 

Persevering ones, many of those, 92 
Persistency, secret of love 's, 117 
Person of genius should marry a 
person of character, 254 

she could . . . marry, the best, 243 
Personage, there is another, 352 
Personal wrong, chafe as at a, 161 
Personality, infinite, 190 
Person's feelings, every, 129 
Persons die before they sing, 366 

divers paces with divers, 406 
Persuaded, quite, 51 
Persuasion and belief, in whom, 121 
Pert and chipper and sassy, 408 
Perturbed spirit, rest, 381 
Peruse, but underneath the rose, 413 

the traders, 413 
Pervading, the something, 308 
Perverse, 302 

Perversity of thought, strange, 159 
Pestilence on him for a mad rogue, 341 

like one that has the, 239 
Petals kiss, I'll show you how, 203 
Petar, hoist with his own, no 
Peter, 302 

and Poule, preaches that, 26 

feared, twenty times was, 128 

I '11 call him, 275 
Peterkin, quoth little, 425 
Peter 's dome, the hand that rounded, 
39 

keys in wax, Saint, 347 
Petitioner for kisses, sweet, 204 
Petticoat, beneath her, 129 

courageous to, 68 
Petty conceit, sell us his, 67 

hope, haply lies, 73 

men, we, 58 
Pews of a tabernacle, through the, 

212 
Phantom, 302 

of grisly bone, that, 78 
Phantoms, 302 
Pharaoh's lean kine, 126 
Phase of ever-heightening life, every, 

224 
Pheasant-lords, these old, 231 
Pheasant 's wing, one likes the, 108 
Phials, which were to be put in, 393 
Philip's house, from the rear of, 25 
Philosopher and friend, my guide, 167 



Philosopher that could endure the 
toothache, 413 

traced with his golden pen, 418 
Philosophy, 303 

a little, inclineth man's mind to 
atheism, 14 

the glory of, 269 
Phoebus in his strength, bright, 316 
Phrase, a fico for the, 386 

of peace, little blessed with the soft, 
380 

that ancient Saxon, 157 
Phrases, 303 
Phyllis, 303 
Physic, 303 

is for all diseases, 44s 

must all follow this, 103 
Physician, 303 
Physicians, quacks not, 347 
Physiognomies o' th' planets, i' th', 306 
Pia mater, the womb of, 258 
Piccadilly, a place where, 367 

the peccadilloes of all, 367 
Pickaxe, 303 
Picked her pouch, and, 200 

out of ten thousand, 183 

shall have my pocket, 193 

the luscious food, they, 300 
Pickers, 303 

Picket, has just relieved a, 384 
Picket's off duty, the, 311 
Pickle, smarting in lingering, 439 
Picks your pocket, while it, 212 
Pickwickian, 303 
Picture, 303 

a wretched, 123 

dreams cannot, 209 

grows, thought he, as the, 342 

he is a proper man's, 250 

in the book of time, bloodiest, 142 

let 's see your, 69 

show you the, 69 

to see him lie, 96 
Pictures, as that of, 443 

with savage, 252 
Pie is freed, no man 's, 8 

supped on dormouse, 96 

was in the largest public, 54 
Piece of beef and mustard, 22 

of twisty rag, for a, 420 

to see, thinks a faultless, 128 
Piecemeal on the rock, 28 
Pieces, 303 

like a lock of hay, went to, 166 
Pierce, a sun will, 159 
Pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear, 

283 
Piercing cider, the, 53 
Piers and roads, for ports and, 444 

on its million, 152 
Pies, chattering, 25 
Piety nor wit, nor all your, 465 

than other people, no more, 52 

that practice of, 400 
Pig, 304 

fat, and goose itself oppose, 322 



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Pigeon tumbling, a, 219 

Pigs, erring souls as straying, 52 

squeak, as naturally as, 165 
Pike and gun, the holy text on, 329 

in, as if you thrust a, 398 

ye see, the speedy, 184 
Pilchards are to herrings, as, 190 
Pile, nor crackling, 155 
Piled stones, in, 29 

until all the wealth, 199 
Pilgrim grey, there Honour comes a, 

34 
Pilgrim's weeds, clad in a, 14s 
Pilgrims be, we ourselves must, 281 

found, a rest for weary, 333 

in Plymouth the land of the, 308 

the home of the, in 
Pilgrims' pride, land of the, 65 
Pillage, thought Christ went agin war 

an', 431 
Pillar of State, a, 85 
Pillars, on crystal, 267 
Pillow, 304 

hard, when resty sloth finds the 
down, 437 

sighed upon a midnight, 242 

spread, and each calm, 167 

think of abandoning his, 210 

upon her lonely, 99 
Pills, I 'm sick of, 363 
Pilot, 304 

no thoughtful, 102 

still, yet lives our, 231 
Pilot's bell, to mind the, 329 
Pilots of the purple twilight, 59 
Pin, and pinned it wi' a siller, 231 

of his heart cleft, 118 

the web and the, 135 
Pinch, 304 

as a lover 's, 79 

he that never took a, 285 

of human dust, every, 115 
Pinched her feet, they, 208 
Pinches, knows so well where the shoe, 

361 
Pinder, that spiritual, 52 
Pine, 304 

blessed be the evergreen, 49 

for my abode, the strong gods, 159 

her furnace crammed rosin and, 346 

though the body, 263 

who see pale mammon, 248 
Pined and wanted food, 1S2 

in thought, she, 298 
Pining for the spring, 343 

twenty years of, 208 

what is passion but, 63 
Pinion, the strongest plume in wis- 
dom 's, 44s 

uncouple that, 403 
Pinions, on mine ice-ribbed, 284 

swift on his downy, 370 
Pink of courtesy, the very, 65 

of perfection, the very, 302 
Pinned it wi' a siller pin, and, 231 
Pin's fee, set my life at a, 223 



Pins, 304 

they screwed it up with, 208 
Pint of blood from your veins, better 

to lose a, 280 
Pious, 305 

action, and, 88 

drops the closing eye requires, 35 

can say I am not, 247 

nor think I 'm, 25 
Pipchin, Mrs., always used that form, 

62 
Pipe, 305 

a short frail, 408 

but as the linnets sing, 226 

glorious in a, 408 
Pipes and whistles in his sound, 294 
Piping time of peace, in this weak, 300 
Pirates, I mean, 359 
Pit as well as better, they '11 fill a, 3 1 2 

black as the, 376 

into one, 21 

of clay for to be made, a, 303 

underneath the bottomless, 178 
Pitch a ton, none could n't quicker, 249 

it reached an awful, 418 

my moving tent, yet nightly, 278 

they that touch, 401 

which flies the higher, 213 

with a voice of dolorous, 361 
Pitched into, the cat's, 44 
Pitchers have ears, 106 
Pitchfork, hay tossed from a, 166 
Piteous and profound, a sigh so, 363 
Pitfall, with, and with gin, 365 
Pith and marrow of a nation, the, 277 

and moment, of great, 61 
Pitied the man, but, 353 

to pity and be, 23 
Pities them, how I, 285 

then, what a thousand, 2 
Pitiful, it was, 182 

oh, pitiful, 42 

't was wondrous, 363 
Pitiful-pitiless knife, by the, 230 
Pittance that would scarcely pay, 317 
Pity, 305 

a heart susceptible of, 262 

and be pitied, 23 

and perhaps forgive, 138 

but not in, 159 

for a horse o'er-driven, 187 

hath a tear for, 161 

his iron heart to, 406 

injury the gaoler to his, 192 

lovers rather more than seamen, 389 

may challenge double, 364 

tears of, 160 

them, that she did, 363 

them both and pity us all, God, 470 

then embrace, 425 

the sorrows of a poor old man, 375 

't is, 't is true, 415 
Pitying foe, a, 142 
Pity's sake, for poor, 82 
Place, 305 

a, a party, or a thriving lie, 42 



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663 



Place 

according to the style of the, 403 

and blood, false pride in, 54 

and wealth, get, 266 

and takes, 216 

be bare for poverty, albeit the, 96 

beneath, upon the, 260 

by any means get wealth and, 266 

do not all go to one, 2 1 

fly by change of, 178 

I am nearing the, 78 

in her pride of, 121 

is empty, and feels her, 442 

is haunted, the, 69 

left for repentance, no, 332 

like home, no, 182 

my hand in thine, or, 127 

of high respect, yet a, 378 

of old, hearts that loved the, 175 

of rest, where to choose their, 462 

of that festive, 295 

or gold, the honour proof to, 185 

pace 'round the forbidden, 292 

shall serve, when time and, 13 

the mind is its own, 263 

there, and take your, 290 

there is, one, 114 

to lager bier, have given, 22 

what a quare-lookin', 16 

whatsoe'er the hour or, 274 

where 'e is gone, at the, 395 

where honour 's lodged, in the, 36 

worth no worse a, 315 
Placed his foot before, and firmly, 136 
Places, and hold their, 289 

from many strange, 257 

his ship alongside, if he, 360 

or pelf, on all sides that give, 62 
Plague, 306 

Miss, the mercer's, 361 

of all cowards, 66 

us, make instruments to, 425 

us worse, is there a vice can, 285 
Plagues a lover bears, of all the, 339 

but of all, good Heaven, 145 

itself, thus, 384 

of all, the greatest is untold, 30 
Plain, 306 

and clear, what makes all doctrine, 

and He will make it, 155 

an' flat, there you hev it, 431 

as way to parish church, 441 

as whisper, said as, 69 

blunt man, a, 291 

eagle stretched upon the, 106 

for were all, 376 

living and high thinking, 229 

tale shall put you down, how a, 396 

upon tables, make it, 345 
Plainest right, to do the, 54 

wrong, to undo the, 54 
Plainness, so modest, 447 
Plains of the water, 18 

the wild mountains and luxuriant, 
217 



Plains, wounded and left on Afghan- 
istan 's, 373 
Plain-song, 306 

Plaint, pour out your praise or, 348 
Plaintiff, always find for the, 92 
Plaintiff's the man, I rather think, 92 
Plaintiffs or defendants, women, 455 
Plan, a head to, 173 

and measure, God's, 250 

and reforms his, 251 

but joined in the, 353 

condemned himself to follow out 
his, 321 

it is not a proper, 171 

obedient to some, 3 1 

save on some worn-out, 179 

the simple, 396 

the surest, 191 

thy purpose, trust or, 391 

was a part of his, 62 
Planet, 306 

not born under a rhyming, 336 

one, in a starless night, 462 
Planets, and all the, 216 
Planned, a perfect woman nobly, 454 

the excellent things we, 451 
Plant, 306 

is the ivy green, a dainty, 195 

of slow growth, a, 60 

the wound, helped to, 106 

to every thirsty, 10 1 
Planting, the wheat for this, 276 
Plants his footsteps in the sea, 154 

suck in the earth, 10 1 
Plaster, chalk and alum and, 35 

saints, men in barricks don't grow 
into, 349 

when you should bring the, 3 74 
Plates, pack o' rotten, 115 
Plato and the swing of Pleiades, 207 
Plaudits she may crave, win the, 449 
Play, 306 
Play, actions that a man might, 448 

and make good cheer, at Christmas, 
52 

a part, a stage where every man 
must, 463 

at, kings would not, 430 

by me, bathe in me, 247, 419 

cards for money, cannot afford to, 
234 

come forth to, 71 

for love and money too, 241 

is done, the, 70 

is o'er, life 's poor, 49 

like a cat at, 60 

on, if music be the food of love, 273 

run, they will not let my, 405 

so ill a part, to, 116 

the, I remember, pleased not, 4s 

the devil, some, 285 

the hart ungalled, 84 

the housewife for this once, 188 

the spaniel, you, 378 

the swan, I will, 273 

the woman, to, 399 



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Play, the woman with mine eyes, I 
could, 399 

upon me, you cannot, 305 

with souls, to, 378 

young barbarians all at, 181 
Played and loved, you 'ye, 228 

around her elbow-chair, 450 

eat together, 224 

familiar, and, 288 

on, easier to be, 305 

with for bits of stone, he, 378 
Player, 307 

a poor, 411 
Players, all the men and women merely, 

A 3&3 

do, as many of your, 3 79 

playing at cards, two, 77 

see little or nothing, 379 
Playful spray, in thy, 73 
Playhouses, more tears are shed in, 

398 
Playing mad pranks, 224 

on the harp, talking is like, 397 

on the sea-shore, a boy, 417 

the Judas, 114 

with the shadows, the young fawns 
are, 469 
Playmate shares my beaker, no, 146 
Playmates, 307 
Plays and tumbles, a', 133 

an old tune on the heart, memory, 
258 

many parts, in his time, 383 
Plaything gives his youth delight, 49 
Playtime of the others, are weeping in 

the, 469 
Plea, necessity the tyrant's, 279 

so tainted and corrupt, what, 213 

the mightiest, for erring souls, 313 
Plead, expound and argue, he could, 
283 

for thee, this silent tongue shall, 411 

precedent will, 84 
Pleadingly and prayerfully, 340 
Pleads admission to our hearts, 85 
Pleas for John Doe, some draw, 146 

indite, and the, 45 s 
Pleasance, youth is full of, 5 
Pleasant in man, 1 

future howe'er, 147 

place, Utopia is a, 383 

sure, to see one's name, 30 

the snaffle of courtship, 253 

to make thy riches, 336 

to severe, from, 162 

vices, and of our, 425 

weaving nets, 't is, 280 
Please, 307 

age lends the graces that are sure to, 
94 

books cannot always, 31 

coy and hard to, 453 

his grandam, to, 372 

love, studious how to, 234 

me best, old fashions, 126 

the certainty to, 443 



Please 

thee with my answers, 10 
Pleased, he knew when he, 145 

not the million, 45 

to give ten thousand ducats, 325 

to the last, 27 

with a rattle, 49 

with the danger, 304 
Pleasing, anxious being, this, 139 

more, more quaint, 161 

of a lute, the lascivious, 432 

punishment that women bear, the, 
456 
Pleasure, 307 

a draught of heavenly, 402 

after pain, 16 

at the helm, 470 

by, passed all, 321 

drinking is the soldier's, 16 

fills up, when, 116 

for no man 's, 39 

full measure of all your, 329 

has aye one rapturous, 462 

have neither pain nor, 369 

I live in, 227 

in the act, 103 

in the house, there 's little, 244 

in the pathless woods, there is a, 457 

is as great, doubtless the, 47 

is comparable, no, 415 

lark-like nests upon the ground, 316 

may give a shock of, 435 

meet, youth and, 71 

on their lordships', 71 

some to, 325 

sweet the, 16 

ta'en, where is no, 391 

that he gives him bread, the same, 

thence which flows, the, 285 

the rills of, 403 

to be drunk, 102 

to come, you have an immense, 358 

to the spectators, because it gave, 
321 

what dreams of, 367 

with instruction, 193 
Pleasures and palaces, 182 

and seize the, 227 

doubling his, 443 

for your choosing, two, 306 

might, these, 237 

my, are not now, 331 

prove, we will all the, 23s 

what cares and, 338 
Pledge, 307 

of a lower sphere, 179 

the universe in wine, 10 1 

with mine, I will, 99 
Pleiades, Plato and the swing of, 207 
Plenishing, comfortless for lack of, 96 
Plentiful as blackberries, if reasons 

were as, 327 
Plenty, 307 

in delay there lies no, 239 

that can, there 's, 413 



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665 



Plies corruption's trade, 64 
Plods his weary way, 69 
Plot, and some poor, 1S2 

this blessed, 112 
Plough goeth every Sunday, his, 421 

or sail, what avail the, 143 

the, the axe, the mill, 212 
Ploughman, 307 

homeward plods, 69 

wanders in all lands, Death the, 79 
Plover from the marshes calling, the, 

384 
Pluck, 307 

a crow together, 67 

away, nor even rashly, 120 

this flower safety, we, 280 

you out of the crannies, 13s 
Plucked and shorn, being, 103 

for violets, 426 

not harshly, 2 28 

their own feathers, 106 

up kisses by the roots, 204 
Plucking the grass, 444 
Plucks dead lions by the beard, 423 

justice by the nose, liberty, 199 
Plum, a cherry and a fig, 162 

give it a, 162 
Plume, 308 

in wisdom 's pinion, the strongest, 
445 

who have lent his, 106 
Plumes, like tossing, 184 
Plum-porridge, their best and dearest 

friend, 322 
Plunder, he shared in the, 353 

lust and, 143 
Plundered, profaned, 188 
Plunge, a beggar he prepares to, 93 

with all your fears, 79 
Plutarch, 308 

Plying her needle and thread, 360 
Plymouth, 308 
Pocket knife, that magic tool, the, 467 

picked, shall have my, 193 

wear prayer-books in my, 372 

while it picks your, 212 
Pockets trimming, their husband's, 

449 
Poem, 308 

is marred, many a, 109 
Poet, 308 

begs, your, 349 
Poetic, 308 

souls, delight in prose insane, 309 
Poetry, 309 

angling is somewhat like, 10 

music and art, without, 63 
Poetry-writing, plain hoss-sense in, 
L 309 

Poet's muse, the, 217 
Poets, 309 

prose, like blank verse, 424 

sing, 123 

styled, by, 232 

write of, which, 130 
Point, 309 



Point 

affords, such pity as my rapier 's, 305 

a moral, to, 274 

and defies its, 191 

do n't put too fine a, 446 

feel I had gained a, 197 

of order, rose to a, 350 

touched the highest, 122 
Point-blank from the mouth of a 

woman, 283 
Pointer 's feet, blood on your, 148 
Pointers, worse housed than your 

hacks and your, 323 
Points, commas and, 67 

in the adventure of the diver, 93 
Poison, 309 

his antidotes are, 303 

nor steel nor, 223 

to men 's souls, 158 

truth, can, 412 

us, if you, 197 
Pokes, an' into nobody 's tater-patch, 

356 
Poking the fire all alone, to be, 441 
Pol and Pen, by Tre, 63 
Pole, from Portsmouth to the, 408 

Indus to the, 216 

so tall to reach the, 263 

the magnetic needle to the, 279 

to pole, beloved from, 369 

to pole, diffused from, 161 

to pole, it flies from, 262 

to pole, it spreads from, 216 

to pole, spread the truth from, 216 

traverse the, 112 

trembling vassal of the, 60 

true as the needle to the, 88 

turning to the, 245 
Policy, any cause of, 161 

honesty is the best, 183 

tyrants from, 328 
Polished manners, improves our parts 

with, 234 
Polite, never mentions hell to ears, 178 

to think thet killin' ain't, 131 
Politeness, how well I speak of Scotch, 

Political bonds, to dissolve the, 356 
Politician who is clean, the, 310 

wise, makes the, 57 
Politicians, 310 

the most practical of all, 310 

the whole race of, 162 
Politics, 310 

than it has with, 61 
Pomp, 310 

and boast, all earthly, 228 

and circumstance, 125 

let the candied tongue lick absurd, 
412 

of beauty reigns, nature in all the, 
217 

of pearl and gold, with, 333 

of power, 163 

of woe, exhausts the, 410 

of yesterday, all our, 139 



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Index 



Pomp 

what is, 89 
Pond, like a standing, 291 
Ponder well what that shall be, 465 
Pondered, while I, 261 
Pool, and dreaming, 419 
Poor, 310 

a backward steward, for the, 248 

and lowly must work their passage, 
176 

are prolific, the, 413 

feud of rich and, 130 

for a bribe, too, 141 

for bread, sold to the, 35 

house, dwells like a miser in a, 183 

if thou art rich, thou'rt, 336 

indeed, and makes me, 275 

is the man in debt, 82 

laws grind the, 214 

lone woman, 230 

tnan, a blind man is a, 27 

man loved the great, 341 

man 's right in the law, like a, 2 14 

men, when yule is cold, 132 

rich gifts wax, 421 

the exchequer of the, 401 

to do him reverence, none so, 335 

to relieve the old, 149 

to the wandering, 242 

unequal laws for rich and, 115 

whether he be rich or, 248 

who aideth the, 181 
Poorest comer, by the, 177 

man may in his cottage, 44 
Poor-house, 310 
Pop, the toads went, 372 
Pope, 310 

Poppy, sauce of syrup of, 96 
Porch, at my cottage, 162 

disgrace, the, 52 
Porcupine, making a woman like a, 
3°4 

upon the fretful, 381 
Pork, 310 
Porridge, 310 

pray a month with mutton and, 312 
Port, his was the lofty, 316 

in every, a mistress find, 347 

is near, the, 43 

for men, 34 

or bay, in some near, 73 

pride in their, 316 

the lazy gossips of the, 161 
Portal, nor attempt the future's, 281 

we call death, whose, 76 
Portals foul, and, 367 
Portents, more filled with signs and, 

165 
Porter and gentleman, 2 1 

good stout old English, 440 

with a good old, 149 
Portia 's counterfeit, fair, 303 
Portion, he wales a, 464 

of a good man's life, best, 201 

of the human race, 103 

to fill a certain, 123 



Portioned, lands were_ fairly, 341 
Portraits, man with "the gallery of 

family, 124 
Ports and piers and roads, for, 444 

not bays and broad-armed, 385 
Portsmouth to the pole, from, 408 
Positivist, 311 

Possess the field, but for you, 391 
Possessed, but first I have, 233 

joys I have, 221 

of shaving-materials, who is, 464 
Possessing, too dear for my, 125 
Possession, while they can keep, 170 
Possessions and military posts, 112 
Possibilities, 311 

'Possum, dar's de banjo an' de, 281 
Post, and win the, 344 

breast that fears not danger's, 145 

evil news rides, 281 

firm at his dangerous, 304 

is not at his, 132 

of honour is a private station, 424 

pachas are all at their, 63 

was driven into her breast, this, 388 
Posterity, 311 

Postern of a small needle 's eye, 42 
Posthumous man, 115 
Postman or the bore, can keep out 

death, the, 31 
Pot of ale and safety, 6 

of beer, in a, 310 

of beer, no objection to a, no 

the three-hooped, 130 

were not I a little, 50 

who is the potter . . . and who the, 
311 
Potations, banish long, 32 

banish, strong, 32 
Potato could not flourish at its root, 

wisdom 's old, 445 
Potatoes, 311 

two boiled, 349 
Potato-patch pokes, an' into nobody 's, 

356 
Potent in potting, most, 112 
Potomac, 311 
Pots, dishes, pans, 16 

of ale, take the size of, 6 

the luckless, 178 
Potter, 311 

the hand then of the, 178 
Potter 's clay, if we are only as the, 107 

hand, clay bleeding and aching in 
the, 107 
Potting, most potent in, 112 
Pouch, and picked her, 200 

on side, and, 294 
Poultice comes, silence like a, 364 
Pound, driven to church as to the 
parish, 52 

of flesh, thy, 134 

of that same merchant's, 134 
Pound were baith for me, the croun 

and the, 68 
Pounds a year, in three hundred, 128 

a year, I 've a hundred, 61 



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667 



Pounds a year, two hundred, 95 

eighteen thousand, 42 

seven hundred, and possibilities, 311 
Pour, and will, 39 

forth the cheering wine, 445 

this concealed man, thou mightst, 
383 
Poured in her lap all gems, 107 

the fiery Hollands in, 181 

the wine, before I, 194 

thick and fast the burning words, 
419 
Pouring forward, went, 271 

without stint, 27 
Poverty, 311 

albeit the place be bare for, 96 

hunger and dirt, in, 361 

nothing in, 195 
Pow, 311 
Powder, 311, 312 

as a spark to the, 389 
Powder-cart, git forrid sometimes 

upon a, 43 1 
Power, a, to which, 112 

and earthly, 260 

and pelf, despite those titles, 65 

and search the heavens for, 402 

and skill, who has the, 450 

and war, 164 

a slowly-dying, 18 

can stay him, what, 406 

divine, what, 58 

he is king who has the, 202 

infinite in, 154 

in place and, 305 

in Venice, there is no, 315 

i' the truth of the cause, 417 

knowledge itself is a, 206 

not exempted from her, 212 

not' now in fortune 's, 97 

of beauty, the, 20 

of blessing thee, the, 27 

of grace, the, 274 

oh, for a forty-parson, 190 

oh wad some, 355 

pain's resistless, 175 

that has made and preserved us, 276 

that pities me, that, 305 

the force of temporal, 260 

the pomp of, 163 

there never yet was human, 467 

the seeds of godlike, 157 

they should take who have the, 396 

to bite, sorrow hath less, 375 

to hurt, the proper, 14 

to place and, 305 

to quiet, such songs have, 374 

to save, hast, 84 

to tell, one hath, 178 

upon the past has, 221 

with triumph and, 392 
Powerful of the earth, the, 334 
Power-house, 312 
Powers, and exercise their, 289 

by lightning's vivid, 26 

can ne'er be equal, 241 



Powers, deriving their just, 161 

equal in full-blown, 318 

of the earth, among the, 356 

tarnish all your boasted, 58 

we lay waste our, 463 

which God for use had given, 142 
Practical politics must not be con- 
strued, 310 
Practice, mere prattle without, 382 

of piety, that, 401 

taught as, but such as, 44s 
Practise to deceive, first we, 82 

to deceive, I will not, 82 
Practised, 312 

Prairie Belle took fire, if ever the, 329 
Praise, 312 

and endless theme of, 236 

and prayer, faithful work is, 459 

and thine be all the, 429 

and when it could not, 411 

be given, to Mary Queen the, 369 

damn with faint, 7 1 

few sons attain the, 367 

from God, take that, 156 

from those who spoke her, 26 

heaven in their own way, 217 

him, not to, 341 

hypocrisy, power to chant thy, 190 

indeed, is, n 

it brings, the, 206 

joyful in my, 104 

my, will be your proudest theme, 
237 

not blame, dreading, 8 

of art, seeking not the, 466 

of the virtuous woman, 45 1 

or plaint, pour out your, 348 

ourselves, however we do, 454 

still pleased to, 46 

swells the note of, 10 

the Lord, and, 365 

to hear our noble England's, 11 1 

who merit, 332 
Praised me at a time, he, 312 

unenvied, and, 385 
Praises God, earth, 154 
Praising, railing and, 324 

the rose that all are, 342 
Pranks, playing mad, 224 
Prate in puling strain, I cannot, 233 

of hell and heretics, 217 
Prattle, mere, without practice, 382 
Praty-skins, ashes and, 16 
Pray, 312 

because 't is lucky for the boats, 244 

fervently do we, 199 

for grace, I, 413 

for mercy, we do, 260 

for this world's peace to, 366 

for wisdom yet, 330 

the Lord my soul to keep, 370 

remained to, 352 

then let us, 38 

with you, I will not, 41 
Prayed, 313 

a lot, he, 314 



668 



Index 



Prayed 

the men that fought and, 181 

the prayer of all mankind, he who, 
313 
Prayer, 313 

and he made his, 136 

as love's wild, 366 

doth teach, that same, 260 

erects a house of, 87 

every syllable a, 340 

faithful work is praise and, 459 

for those who love us, and a, 363 

hush that followed the, 55 

if ever fondest, 125 

lest the devil cross my, 87 

no bribe or, 274 

that follows after, 374 

the people 's, 98 

to, 154 

to a wordless, 88 

to Himmel, take a liddle, 351 

to sully your pure, 348 

to thee I make my, 15s 

what's in, 260 
Prayer-books, beads and, 49 

in my pocket, wear, 372 
Prayers, 313, 314 

cannot appease thee, 15 

a few more, 222 

for vengeance, weary of your, 433 

I consider faith and, 120 

of love, 160 

they seldom say their, 259 

your sighs and, 74 
Prayeth, 313, 314 
Praying, 314 

dumbly, as if, 169 

for her, loving her, 243 

God will save thy sailor, 347 

hands, then with, 25s 

the yearning back of the, 313 
Prays for love, when it, 235 
Preach again, as never sure to, 314 

an' could na, 263 

I wish to, 389 

for this men write, speak, 123 

upon a morning breezy, 151 

who please, they may, 444 
Preached, 314 

he practised what he, 312 
Preacher, 314 

cries, the sacred, 227 
Preachers, 315 
Preaches in her gown, a wife who, 295 

that Peter and Poule, 26 
Preaching down a daughter's heart, 73 
Preachment, made a, 85 
Precedence, allay the good, 41 
Precedent, 315 

the codeless myriad of, 214 

to precedent, from, 144 

will plead, 84 
Precedents, shelter him with noble and 

right-reverend, 92 
Precept, a familiar, 193 
Precincts of the cheerful day, 139 j 



Precious as the stuff they sell, half so. 
426 

jewel, to barter away that, 42 

souls, six_, 72 

stone, this, 112 

the more, for the struggles, 111 
Precise, than when art is too, 364 
Preferment, 315 

Preferred before a just war, is to be, 
43° 

in his heart, the least ringlet, 339 
Preferring you before her father, 189 
Pregnant with celestial fire, 109 
Prejudice, by the grey weeds of, 446 
Prejudices, and Scotch, 352 
Preoccupateth it, fear, 77 
Prepare to shed them now, 399 
Prepared for war, to be, 432 
Prepares it for another guest, 401 
Presbyterian, true blue, 'twas, 329 
Prescient, 315 

Prescribed, all but the page, 127 
Presence, made better by their, 50 

civilizes ours, sex whose, 54 

glowed, with his, 87 

of a Maker, in the dread, 115 

the sun from their, 284 

within our, 115 
Present state, their, 127 
Presentiment, 315 
Presentment, the counterfeit, 303 

upon the heels of my, 30 
Preservation of the general govern- 
ment, the, 299 
Preserved in Milton 's or in Shake- 
speare 's name, 458 

the Federal Union, it must be, 420 

us a nation, made and, 276 
Preserving peace, means of, 432 
President, 315 
Presiding, o'er his life, 443 
Press, 315 

and quill, freedom of the, no 

free, 142 

made at me through the, 427 

not a falling man, 121 

thee, other arms may, 331 

the life from out young hearts, 296 

the rue for. wine, 402 

too close in church and mart, 220 

where ye see my white plume, 308 
Pressed once more the lifeless head, 
109 

the earth upon her corpse was, 388 

the lips that he has, 252 
Presses, on, still on he, 406 
Pressing close, a thousand knights are, 

179 
Pressures past, all forms, all, 331 
Presume, 31s 

not God to scan, 250 

thy bolts to throw, 71 

to lay their hand, 1 2 
Presuming, 'ould be, 283 
Presumption on to-morrow 's dawn, 
man 's, 411 






Index 



669 



Pretence, are their just, 67 

good without, 452 
Prettiest doll in the world, the, 96 
Pretty, but is it art, 13 

creature, drink, 101 

looks, puts on his, 165 

maid, my, 246 

quarrel, the quarrel is a very, 323 

thing man is, what a, 251 

well, considering, I 'm, 62 

wit, I have a, 447 
Prevail, looking ill, 294 

with me, if wishes would, 446 
Prevailed above the magistrate, the 
man, 245 

with double sway, 352 
Prevails, when vice, 424 
Prevaricate, Ralpho, thou dost, 325 
Prevent the long aimed blow, 385 
Prey at fortune, to, 168 

expects his evening, 470 

for prey, to barter, 10 

must have, 256 

surprise the finny, 168 

that on him, 134 

to all, yet a, 462 

to dumb forgetfulness a, 139 

to hastening ills a, 300 

were every nation 's, 157 

where eagles, wrens make, 106 
Preys do rouse, to their, 282 

on herself, 33 
Priam, food for vermin, like, 89 
Price, 3 15 

a gem of countless, 73 

a little below cost, 17s 

earth gets its, 176 

every kiss has a, 253 

no, is set on the lavish summer, 177 

of admiralty, if blood be the, 113 

of apostasy, were the, 416 

of chains and slavery, at the, 217 

of many a crime untold, 157 

of pork, you raise the, 310 

the, too high, 91 
Prick and Rosalind, must find love "s, 
343 

and sting her, to, 270 

me off, how if honour, 184 

us, if you, 197 
Pricking her fingers, 304 

of my thumbs, by the, 404 
Pricks me on, honour, 184 
Pride, 315, 316 

a decent, 396 

alone, who stands in his, 286 

and worse ambition, till, 7 

and spite of, 338 

a Roman knows, that, 285 

a tyrant throned in lonely, 419 

blush of woman 's, 409 

glows with faith and, 173 

he that is low no, 97 

in place and blood, false, 54 

is his own glass, 320 

land of the Pilgrims', 65 



Pride 

local jealousies and, no 

most provoked by, 319 

my high-blown, 153 

not the breath of his, 386 

of freedom, in all the, 217 

of place, in her, 121 

of their race, for the, 3 73 

onward with a secret, 159 

passion and, were to her soul un- 
known, 453 

pomp and circumstance, 125 

sweetness void of, 128 

the banner of our, 1 7 

their country 's, 300 

wafts perfume to, 385 

with coy submission, modest, 391 

with folly and with, 449 
Prides, a host of, 316 
Priest, 316 

at her altars, a, 63 

hath his fee, the, 176 

I tell thee, churlish, 426 
Priests, lawyers, 218 

the selling do, 47 
Prime, having lost but once your, 254 

time, ns 
Primer, armed with his, 352 
Primeval race was run, long after thy, 
10 

this is the forest, 139 
Primrose, 316 
Primroses, 316 
Prince, 317 

as the subject owes the, 454 

he rises with his pearl, 93 

who nobly cried, the, 73 
Princely counsel in his face, 85 
Prince's name, stand in the, 422 

ransom in the pearl, left a, 300 
Princes, 317 

and lords are but the breath of 
kings, 183 

and lords may flourish, 300 

are come home again, 112 

ever ranking himself with, 388 

peer, this hind of, 324 

to act, 383 

were privileged to kill, 272 
Principle, are rebels from, 328 

I do n't believe in, 193 
Principles I glory, ez to my, 42 

the refuge of free, in 

your jarring sects unite, 162 
Print, 317 

I put into, 386 

them on the moon 's pale beam, 450 

to see one's name in 30 
Printers, 317 

have last, 31 
Printing, 317 

Prints my letters, this, 36 
Prior, 317 
Prison, 318 

came the hero from his, 351 

on each hand, a palace and a, 424 



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Index 



Prison 

so I were out of, 261 
Prisoner, make me no, 318 

takes his valour, 101 
Prisoner's gaze, obstruct the, 262 

pleasing dream, liberty, the, 217 
Prison-house, the secrets of my, 380 
Private end, served no, 385 

ends, by their, in 

station, post of honour is a, 424 
Privatest of men's affairs, 120 
Privilege, anger hath a, 9 

to live, but only they have, 424 
Privileged, Princes were, 272 
Privy Councillors of God, pseudo, 347 
Prize, 318 

a sot, but their, 462 

he 'd caught, the, 342 

if solid happiness we, 182 

itself, the wicked, 289 

left to, 91 

more than all to an Englishman, 
dear, 286 

o' death in battle, for the great, 19 

them, when we learn to, 394 

unseduced by the, 120 

we sought is won, the, 43 

whose loves I, 69 

who misses or who wins the, 150 
Prizes you 're running, if when tor 

life 's, 220 
Problem given, he '11 solve you any, 467 
Proceed ad infinitum, 134 
Proceedings, and the subsequent, 350 
Process, they form the, 45s 

of the suns, widened with the, 322 
Proclaim, their great Original, 132 
Proclaimed through our host, 156 
Proclaims the man, the apparel oft, 

11 
Procrastination, 318 
Proctors, with prudes for, 162 
Produce, the vineyard 's best, 288 
Produces noble ends and uses, noble 

thought, 284 
Product distilled from molasses, the, 

344 
Production, man is a carnivorous, 256 
Productive of the greatest minds, 41 
Profanation, but in the less foul, 196 
Profane, yet 't is, 394 
Profaned and disinherited, 188 
Profess, that I may, 189 
Profession, 318 

of a patriot, the, 298 

of the creed of peace, 42 

they hold up Adam 's, 150 
Professors, of mair use to the, 212 
Profit by their example, may, 414 

ere her cause bring fame and, 34 

grows, no, 391 

to receive countenance and, 318 
Profitless, falls into mine ears as, 64 
Profits nobody, ill blows the wind 

that, 444 
Progeny of learning, a, 215 



Progress, 318 

Progression, change is the watchword 

of, 46 
Project, eight years upon a, 393 

may at first sight appear a, 361 
Prologue to his sleep, the, 100 
Promethean fire, the right, 118 
Promise, 318 

howe'er we, 124 

lies, the land of, 159 

never more to disobey, fain, 429 

who broke no, 385 

yet, never saw I, 308 
Promised on a time, I was, 335 
Promises, 319 

made, 215 
Promising with smiles, or, 361 
Promontory, or blue, 56 
Prompter of invention, surest, 279 
Prompter 's bell, slow falling to the, 70, 
Prone to weeping, I am not, 438 
Pronounced her wooman, he then, 449 
Proyiouns, 319 

interjections, verbs, 389 
Proof against their enmity, I am, 30a 

and on the, 195 

bring his merit to the, 187 

in some wild hour, and learn by. 
465 

itself would have earned him, thai: 
ever, 287 

through the night, gave, 17 
Proofs, his, his publishers and 
printers, 317 

of holy writ, strong as, 195 

strong, they have, 376 
Prop, when you do take the, 223 
Propagate and rot, 306 
Propensity, almost irresistible heredi- 
tary, 102 

to stick, has a, 114 
Proper jest, pass your, 67 

man 's picture, he is a, 250 

mate, choose not alone a, 254 

plan, it is not a, 171 

power to hurt, 14 

time to marry, but, 254 
Property, 319 

of easiness, a, 70 

or his labour, with his, 338 
Prophecy, protest that is also, 188 
Prophesy, 319 
Prophet, 319 

God and the, 63 
Prophetic, runs a thrill of joy, 143 
Prophet 's paradise, sigh for the, 44 
Prophets, I do n't pan out on the, 330 

blazoned on the panes, the, 291 
Proposal, to a woman with such a, 283 
Propose, 319 

Proposes, but God disposes, man, 155 
Proposition, the truth of its own fun- 
damental, 8 
Propped, with one of timber's, 216 
Proprietor lives in Paternoster Row, 
the, 294 






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671 



Prose, 319 

and verse is merely, 424 
insane, delight in, 309 
is verse, 424 

poets like blank verse, 424 
run mad, not poetry but, 309 
't is not even, 424 
what others say in, 424 
whose, is grand verse, 424 

Prosper, 319 

treason doth never, 414 

Prospered, when it is past and, 414 

Prosperity, a jest's, 196 

doth best discover vice, 427 
I wish you all manner of, 397 
she makes a scourge of past, 265 
that shadowed us in our. 3 

J rosperity 's the very bond of love, 240 

} 'rosperous, 3 19 
to be just, 't is, 34 

Prospers, for the world, 111 

Prostrate, let me fall, 397 

Protect her from all ills, 189 
it now, and I '11, 457 

Protection of Divine Providence, the, 



[44 

Protest, a, that is also prophecy, 188 
Protestant succession and, 170 
Protested, he blamed and. 353 
Protests, 319 

Proteus, have sight of, 293 
Protracted life, 221 
Proud, 319, 320 

and lower the, 141 

heart breaks, fret till your, 144 

his name, 65 

mad, but not defiant, 244 

man's contumely, 323 

of a vast extent of flimsy lines, 353 

of thee. nose, I am as, 285 

shall be, all the, 334 

the Englishman is. 90 

the spirit of mortal be, 269 

to importune, too, 141 

to meet a people proud, 299 
Prouder for it, ay I 'm the, 86 
Proudly, more, than to die, 351 

question ours, ere you, 58 

we hailed, 17 
Prove, 320 

when I doubt, 195 
Proved false again, 95 

it, said there was no matter and, 256 

to thy face, it will be, 317 
Proverb, 320 

goes, the hare of whom the, 423 

never stale, 126 

to thine heart, take the, 434 

you know the, 260 
Proverbs, as she is described in the, 
45i 

of Solomon, in the, 285 

patch grief with, 165 
Proves by thumps upon your back, 
405 



Providence, 320 

and courage never abandon, 373 

their guide, and, 462 

then Bill let us thank, 347 
Provoke the silent dust, 421 
Provoked by pride, the proud are 
always most, 319 

not soon, 84 
Provokes the world to arms, gold, 158 
Provoketh thieves, beauty, 21 
Provok'st, that thou oft, 80 
Prow, youth on the. 470 
Prudent, 'tis thought among the, 323 
Prudes, 320 

for proctors, with, 162 
Prunello. the rest is all but leather or, 

465 
Pry on every side, and, 307 

that out of a Boston man, you 
couldn't, 188 
Psalm, like the close of an angel's 
374 

the hundredth. 10 

up in the spire, send the, 244 
Psalter, the full heart's a. 173 
Psyche 's friend becomes her lover, 

when, 242 
Phthisic, helps the headache, cough 

and, 445 
Public, a man pays to the, 46 

business, no. 54 

care, and, 85 

departments, with all the, 54 

haunt, life exempt from 3 

officers are the servants, 289 

officials trustees of the people, 289 

opinion, in war the moral element 
and, 431 

path of life is dirty, 9 2 

pie, was in the largest, 54 

rout, where meet a, 253 

spirit ends, all, 305 

tart, in the smallest, 54 
Publican, 320 
Published in Catherine Street, the 

paper is, 294 
Publishers, 320 

his, and printers, his proofs, 317 
Publishing, of loudly, 351 
Puddle, at a slop or a, 297 
Puffed where'er winds rise, 408 
Puffs away from thence, being 

angered,_ 444 
Puissant nation, a noble and, 277 
Puling, to speak, 239 
Pull a crow, you and I must, 67 

his weight, to, 54 

the thorn, to, 402 
Pulled out, with a single hair, 168 
Pulse ablaze, and the, 204 

of care, the restless, 374 

of life, on the, 86 

of racing oars, the measured, 287 
Pulses leap, the, 470 

of the stars, they '11 feel the, 306 

when your castigated, 324 



672 



Index 



Pulses' tardiness or quickness, 363 

Pulsing it again through them, 277 

Pun, rejoiced in a, 197 

Punch, 321 

Punctual, are very apt and, 122 

Punishment, deserve not, 157 

new, what a, 115 

oftenest of all a, 102 

that women bear, the pleasing, 456 

thy nature will endure, the, 450 
Punishments the scroll, how charged 

with, 126 
Puns, 321 

Punster, said a, 423 
Puny head, on your, 108 
Purchase their good will, by service 

long to, 4SS 
Purchased, as to be, 217 

at an infinite rate, 117 
Purdon, here lies poor Ned, 168 
Pure, all women, 150 

as snow, as, 42 

because my heart is, 12 

gold for what he lent him, 82 

hold on to the, 55 

in deeds, but, 97 

neither strong nor, 146 

the, the bright, the beautiful, 88 

the real Simon, 364 

the statesman, 104 
Purer laws, with . . . , 252 

science, of, 252 
Purest oar, the . . . from the hot- 
test furnace, 41 
Purest ray, many a gem of, 149 
Purgatory, 321 
Purge and leave sack, I '11, 346 

away, which war alone can, 431 

the land, we would, 133 
Purged away, are burnt and, 380 
Puritan anthem, the grand old, 10 
Puritans, 321 

stern-eyed, 31 
Purity, 321 

and truth, brightness, 452 
Purple and gold, gleaming in, 14 

shows your path, 413 

twilight, pilots of the, 59 
Purpose, 321, 322 

a preacher who speaks to the, 314 

can cite Scripture for his, 353 

can there be, what, 265 

fair to no, 462 

for the sole, 361 

have clouds o'ercast thy, 391 

infirm of, 70 

lofty of, 54 

of the law, the intent and, 213 

pushes his prudent, 251 

should not fail with me, my, 446 

was strong in moral, 269 

to be dressed in an opinion, 291 
Purposed, whose end is, 157 
Purposes, can execute their airy, 381 

he lives no more, to our, 278 

the Almighty has his own, 6 



Purse, 322 

a penny in, 65 

a pride of, 316 

can buy, as thy, 11 

in silken or in leather, 359 

the inside of your, 158 

who steals my, 275 
Pursue, more than heaven, 61 
Pursued betimes, small habits well, 
167 

further than death, can vengeance 
be, 424 
Pursuing, a love-lorn heart, 458 

still achieving, still, 2 
Push us from our stools, 90 
Pushes his prudent purpose, 251 

us on to the windowless inn, 406 
Pushing away the Atlantic Ocean, 296 
Puss gentleman, a fine, 54 

while folks are in their beds, 44 
Put a girdle round about, 152 

a head on him, for to, 171 

it back half an hour, 434 

it on again, 361 

it on your finger first, since I, 338 

it to the issue, I '11, 187 

it to the touch, dares not, 126 

on his clothes, when he, 274 

out to sea, when I, 17 

that in, 204 

to the worse, knew truth, 415 

too fine a point to your wit, do n't, 
446 

too fine point upon it, not to, 309 

you down, how a plain tale shall, 
396 
Puts forth the tender leaves, 164 
Puttied up with tar, pack o' rotten 

plates, 115 
Puttock 's nest, the partridge, 41 
Puzzled all our kith and kin, it, 418 
Puzzles the will, 79 
Pygmies, 322 

Pyramid, under a star -ypointing, 29 
Pyramids, 322 

are pryamids in vales, 322 

virtue alone outbuilds the, 322 
Pythagoras, to hold opinion with, 378 



Quacking only gives it an ill savour, 52 
Quacks, not physicians, 347 
Quadrangular of diamond form, spots, 

88 
Quaff this kind nepenthe, 280 
Quaffed too quickly, his (cup) had 

been, 464 
Quaffs her paly stream, 101 
Quaint, more, more pleasing, 161 
Quake to hear, that tyranny shall, 419 

to hear, words that tyrants, 419 
Quaker fellow as often 'as towd ma 

this, 267 
Qualify, absence seemed my flame to, 2 






Index 



673 



Quality, 322 

and all, 125 

never sees a good, 70 

of mercy, the, 260 

of the liquor, and the, 403 

true-fixed and resting, 62 
Quarrel, 322, 323 

and detested a, 308 

greatly to find, 164 

honourable, and his, 45 

just, hath his, 12 

sudden and quick in, 373 

there is no true valour, in a false, 
423 
Quarrelled, 323 

with a man, thou hast, 322 
Quarreller, he's a great, 323 
Quarrelling, 323 

as addle as an egg for, 322 

wilt tutor me from, 322 
Quarrels, 323 

Romans in Rome 's, 341 

thy head is as full of, 322 
Quarry-slave, go not like the, 227 
Quart of ale, 6 

Quarter toward the arternoon, an- 
other, 434 
Quarto page, a beautiful, 293 
Queen, 323 , 

and every lass a, 469 

and faith, fought for, 105 

an' Gawd save the, 301 

at length apparent, 268 

Bess, image of good, 157 

Elizabeth, no scandal about, 351 

for life, ev'ry lady would be, 325 

of crown, of, 370 

of the world, the, 58 

o' the May, I 'm to be, 256 

sent word, a, 276 

thou sat'st a, 342 

upon a card, insipid as the, 193 
Queen 's command, gave up their lives 

at the, 373 
Queens and states, kings, 368 
Queer, 323 

Queerest little craft, 73 
Queer-looking place, what a, 16 
Quell, the vengeance blood alone 
could, 423 

thy soul, no foreign foe could, 112 
Quench it, she took to, 71 

rivers cannot, 131 

or but allay, you would, 327 
Quenched a lamp, if thou hast, 149 
Question everything, the right to, 8 

his brute, 147 

hopelessly, I put this, 320 

is not marriage an open, 253 

Mars, they '11, 306 

of despair, the hurried, 107 

or reply, not thine nor mine to, 357 

ours, ere you proudly, 58 

staying no longer, 345 

that is the, 19 

thy soul to-night for me, 127 



Question with the wolf, may as well 

use, 448 
Questions, 323 

that Heaven rains down, 8 
Quick as is the wit it gives, 46 

as lightning in the breech, 36 

bosoms is a hell, quiet to, 323 

now bourgeons every maze of, 372 
Quickly, well it were done, 96 
Quickness, pulses' tardiness or, 363 
Quiddities, thy quips and thy, 324 

where be his, 214 
Quiet, 323 

along the Potomac, all, 311 

be, and go a-angling, 10 

breast, truth hath a, 417 

cloudy, all, 435 

consummation have, 163 

eyelids closed, her, 105 

fields, by, 18 

have power to, 274 

passage, a, 9 

some to, 32S 

to have an hour's, 229 

tune, singeth a, 37 
Quietus, 323 

Quill, Britons have a tongue and free, 
no 

freedom of the press and, no 

from an angel 's wing, made of a, 301 
Quillets, his, his cases, 214 

of the law, these nice sharp, 213 
Quills upon the fretful porcupine, 38 1 
Quip modest, the, the second, 218 
Quips, 324 

and cranks, 196 
Quire below, to the full- voiced, 291 
Quit for the next, 91 

it, the very rats instinctively had, 
32s 

the ground, least willing still to, 224 

their sphere, all, 316 

this mortal frame, 428 
Quitteth both riches and wisdom, 8 
Quitting the busy career, rest is not, 

333 
Quitt 'st thy narrow bed, 115 
Quotes a stage-play, here he, 383 

Homer and Virgil, 30 
Quoth echo, plainly, 255 



R in their name, have not an, 292 
Rabbit, for parsley to stuff a, 254 

would be a, 212 
Rabblement hooted, 43 
Race, 324 

another, the following spring sup- 
plies, 250 

a type of the true elder, 308 

a younger, succeeds, 379 

between two legs a, 344 

delivered, a nation saved, a, 277 

ensnare, tresses man's imperial, 168 



674 



Index 






Race 

forget the human, 85 

for the pride of their, 373 

has run its course, our, 191 

is won, the, 208 

life is the running of the, 221 

not always to the swift, 318 

of man is found, the, 250 

of mere impostors, a, 385 

of politicians, the whole, 162 

patience wins the, 302 

portion of the human, 103 

she shall rear my dusky, 350 

that shortens its weapons, the, 437 

the annals of the human, 228 

the Bible of the, 24 

the true king of his, 410 

to command, to obey, the, 113 

was run, long after thy primeval, 10 

Races' ends, when they 're at their, 345 

Rachel by the palmy well, 120 

Racing oars, the measured pulse of, 
287 
the same, selling or, 187 

Rack behind, leave not a, 428 
the ship has weathered every, 43 

Racketing her rivets loose, 215 

Radiance in his bright, 384 

Radish, 324 

Rag and a bone and a hank of hair, 136 
for a piece of twisty, 420 
over'ead, the bloomin' old, 112 

Rage, 324 

and the elements', 78 

canine of dying rich, 336 

for fame, what, 123 

license and wanton, 431 

penury repressed their noble, 301 

strong without, 84 

Raged more fierce, in war was never 
lion, 432 

Rages loud and long, while the battle, 
19 
the furious winter's, 103 

Ragged, if I was very, 197 

Raggedy-man, 324 

Raging hot, hand grows, 169 

Ragings, 324 

Rags, a crust of bread and, 207 

and hags and hideous wenches, 387 
and tatters, old opinions, no, 143 

143 
in unwomanly, 360 
to very, 379 
virtue though in, 311 

Rail, whiles I am a beggar, I will, 22 

Railer, rude Boreas, blustering, 346 

Railing, 324 

Railroad tracks, boys that put cop- 
pers on the, 321 

Rails, and he, 193 
below, half the, 215 

Rail-splitter, 324 

Raiment, and change my, 365 

Rain, 324, 325 

a deluge showers, 26 



Rain 

a mist and a weeping, 203 
and win', t'ro' de col' night, 359 
as the mist resembles the, 375 
begin, wha'r de long night, 358 
droppeth as the gentle, 260 
enough, is there not, 169 
be only hung it out in the, 361 
in thunder, lightning, or in, 257 
may enter, 44 
or shine, or, 221 
or shine, took lodgings for, 21 
potatoes, let the sky, 311 
soaks up the, 10 1 
stones with drops of, 252 
sunshine still must follow, 76 
the heart 's most precious, 293 
the sunshine follows the, 442 
wears the marble, much, 252 
Rainbow, hue unto the, 152 
Rainbow 's glory is shed, the, 209 
Rainbows of the brooks, leap the, 350 
Rain-drops fall, like, 160 
Rained, it blew and it, 389 
Raineth every day, the rain it, 325 
Rain-paf, up t'ro' de gloomerin', 359 
Rains, washed with still, 224 
Rainy eyes, and with, 164 

when it is not, no 
Raise a thirst, an' a man can, 392 
me up, my God shall, 406 
no money by vile means, I can, 267 
th' enormous weight, could, 84 
the price of pork, you, 310 
the stateliest building man can, 19s 
the stone, 207 

this soul to God in after-days, 293 
Raised a sigh so piteous, he, 363 
his right hand up to heaven, 424 
it, the pious fool that, 123 
not a stone, and we, 153 
some serious song, 91 
thee anew, ever we, 112 
to shed his blood, the hand just, 27 
to that bad eminence, 107 
Raiseth me, a cross that, 278 
Raising up a people of customers, 361 
Rake, 325 

Ralph to Cynthia howls, while, 282 
Rampant animals, too, 56 
Rampart wall had scaled, 87 

we hurried, as his corpse to the, 102 
Ramparts, because to force my, 284 

o'er the, 17 
Ramrod down, and he shoved his, 38 
Random sent, many a shaft at, 358 

spoken, many a word at, 358 
Rang, hard crab-tree and old iron, 405 

the bells, and merrily, 437 
Range the valley free, flocks that, 305 
Ranging for revenge, 33s 
Rank, a pride there is of, 316 
a wreath, a, 462 
of these, in the first, 114 
is but the guinea 's stamp, 249 
or worth, whatever be their, 201 



Index 



675 



Ranker, to make them, 60 

Ranking himself with princes, ever, 

388 
Ranks of war, amidst the, 308 

of war, in the, 271 
Rank-scented many, the mutable, 252 
Ransom for offence, be a sufficient, 375 

in the pearl, left a prince 's, 300 
Rapids are near, the, 344 
Rapier 's point affords, such pity as 

my, 305 
Rapine, war and, 143 
Rapping, as of some one gently, 261 
Rapture brief, almost divine, 234 

on the lonely shore, there is a, 457 
Raptured or alarmed, 377 
Raptures swell, no minstrel, 65 
Rapture-smitten frame, with, 274 
Rare and radiant maiden, clasp a, 246 

as a day in June, 199 

bedfellows, 21 . 

man, he 's a, 250 
Rarity of Christian charity, 182 
Rascals, 325 

in the coach, 417 

naked through the world, to lash the, 
439 
Rash and undutiful, 20 

choler, way and room to your, 50 

splenitive and, 71 
Rashes, green grow the, 165 
Rat, 325 
Rate, at a bountiful old, 149 

of going, alter their, 403 

of his pay he dislikes, if the, 390 

of usance, brings down the, 421 

purchased at an infinite, 117 
Rats, 325 

and such small deer, mice and, 261 
Rattle his bones over the stones, 298 

pleased with a, 49 

where mingles war 's, 83 
Rattling o'er the stony street, the car, 

444 
Rave, our little hour of strut and, 411 

where the scattered waters, 288 
Raven, 325, 326 

down, smoothing the, 282 

nevermore, quoth the, 17, 19, 246 

ringlets, her, 30 

rooked her on the chimney 's top, 25 

your locks were like the, 311 
Raven's croak is loud, the, 184 
Ravens, 326 

on high, storms rock the, 297 
Raving at that shade-made blade, 115 
Ravished, are quite, 196 

ears, with, 155 

with the whistling of a name, 123 
Ravishes all senses, it, 452 
Raw, inclement summers, in, 393 

you are yet too, 397 
Ray, beneath her steady, 268 

earth shall glisten in the, 159 

emits a brighter, 185 

many a gem of purest, 149 



Ray of him, a, 233 

whose unclouded, 400 

with unsetting, 245 
Rays, hide your diminished, 91 

like, into one focus, 204 
Raze out the written troubles, 263 
Razor keen, like a polished, 350 
Razors, 326 
Reach me more, might never, 229 

that excellence it cannot, 114 

the longest, is past, 344 

the pole, to, 263 

the spot, 152 
Reached and kept, by great men, 177 

that blessed abode, ever, 374 
Reaches of our souls, beyond the, 268 

of the peaks of song, the long, 207 
Read, 326 

aloud the book, he, 280 

and thou wilt, 409 

a sermon, who will not, 462 

as well as books, men may be, 259 

a woman, who is 't can, 453 

comes by nature, but to write and, 
466 

he that runs may, 34s 

I want to, 247 

much, not read at all, 309 

Shikspur, no, I never, 358 

the book of fate, 127 

which shall be, 275 

write and, 2 
Readeth it, he may run that, 345 
Reading, 326 

of an ever changing tale, the, 219 

study, pains, 67 

writing and 'rithmetic, 187 
Reads much, he, 126 
Ready ere I called her name, Abra 
was, 1 

for a hero 's deeds, 54 

man, conference a, 326 

to hand, finds, 54 

to try our fortunes, 141 

we always are, 286 
Real, life is, 222 

much finer women, ripe and, 385 
Reality, but this is, 100 

immeasurable, 190 
Realm, riding o'er the azure, 470 

shall be in common, 130 

that moves to that mysterious, 227 

this, 112 

throughout the solid, 86 
Realms above, constancy lives in, 412 
Reap, as you sow, y 're like to, 230 

the harvest, others will come to, 460 
Reaped for nothing, nor shall half be, 

460 
Reaper, 326 

whose name is Death, 79 
Reaping, grew the more by, 32 

something new, ever, 461 

thee sweet herbs, 78 
Reaps, another, 355 
Rear of Philip 's house, 25 



676 



Index 



Rear the tender thought, to, 398 

to bear, to nurse, to, 19 
Reason, 327 

and have no other, 287 

appear the better, 122 

blessed with plain, 452 

divorced old barren, 426 

ever comprehends, more than cool, 
243 

for my rhyme, to have, 33s 

having no other, 322 

I received nor rhyme nor, 335 

itself, kills, 30 

I was up so early, 211 

neither rhyme nor, 33s 

no sooner knew the, 242 

still, the ruling passion conquers, 
297 

that wants discourse of, 20 

the wherefore is neither rhyme nor, 
441 

't is you that have the, 33s 

to be fond of grief, 165 

to the rhyme, hard to fit the, 335 

upon compulsion, give no man a, 
327 

void of rhyme as well as, 382 

what, I should be the same, 232 

what 's the, 4T4 

why, Cornishmen will know the, 63 

why, theirs not to, 90 

why, there's little, 218 

why, they scarcely asked, 90 

would despair, where, 185 

ye shall find, till some, 58 
Reasonable amount o' fleas, a, 134 

creature, kills a, 30 

my pension shall seem the more, 301 
Reasoned strong, he, 91 
Reasoning with yourself, what are 

you, 335 
Reason's spite, in erring, 338 
Reasons, 327 

not implausible, baited with, 459 
Rebel, a foul contending, 454 

shall my heart, 125 

use 'em kindly, they, 280 
Rebellion, 328 

whirlwinds of, 147 
Rebels, 328 
Rebuff, 328 

and one refusal no, 328 
Rebuild in it the music and the dream, 

467 
Recall, beyond, 144 

him, a signal to, 132 

who vainly the dreams of youth, 470 
Recalled a different name, each heart, 

241 
Received nor rhyme nor reason, 33s 
Receives, who much, 26 
Recess, the gay, of wisdom and of wit, 

367 
Reckless, 328 
Reckon by them, they do but, 459 

not on your chickens, 48 



Reckon their age by years, some, 398 

with this man, the future, 147 
Reckoned by its length, it must be, 
204 

the love that can be, 237 
Reckoning, a trim, 185 

made, no, 370 

truth to the end of, 417 
Reclaim her precious things, earth 
shall, 354 

thy lost soul, 358 
Recognizing start, with a, 115 
Recoils, back on itself, 335 

suffers, 232 
Recollection, almost escaped my, 89 

presents them to view, 49 
Recommend the light, more sweetly, 

447 
Recommended to the notice of, 193 
Reconciled, deems he is, 341 
Record here, have left one trace of, 
367 

leap to light, whatever, 358 

of reply, lives no, 37 

out, to blot the, 449 

weep to, 287 

who rest below, storied urns, 410 
Recorded for a precedent, 't will be, 
3i5 

they made and, 338 
Recording angel, the, as he wrote it 

down, 287 
Records, all trivial fond, 331 
Recovered of the bite, the man, 95 
Recreant limbs, calf 's-skin on those, 

226 
Recreation, more calm, quiet, innocent, 

10 
Rector, the mealy-mouthed, 144 
Red and white, whose, 21 

artillery, far flashed the, 13 

as a rose is she, 36 

as the lips we press, 55 

began to turn, from black to, 269 

burial blent, in one, 40 

cheek a little, 75 

Cross of England, 'neath the, no 

her lips were, 226 

herring, nor good, 132 

his coat was, 87 

making the green one, 169 

nor need be daubed with, 152 

of innocent commercial justice, 413 

paint the town, 102 

right hand, his, 169 

right hand grows raging hot, 169 

the bleeding drops of, 43 

the winding rivers be, 212 

was on your lip Mary, the, 387 
Reddening of the rose, the, 200 
Redeemed and white before the Lord, 

358 
Redeemer, 328 
Redress, 328 

the balance of the old, 16 

their harms, how to, 231 



Index 



677 



Reed he will not break, the bruised, 
436 

there 's music in the sighing of a, 272 
Reeds, whose hope is built on, 330 
Reef, roller thundering on the, 341 
Reek o' the rotten fens, 69 
Reel and rout, in, 81 

how the belfries rock and, 23 
Refines, how the style, 231 
Refit, this tenement, 367 
Reflect that God is just, 414 
Reform, till he begins to, 366 
Reformation, a godly, thorough, 329 
Reforms his plan, 251 
Refrain, from expensive sins, 345 

I list to this, 325 
Refreshment, its draught of cool, 43 s 
Refuge of a scoundrel, the last, 298 

of free principles, 11 1 
Refusal, 328 
Refuse, 329 

the shilling, 345 

though I can't, 321 
Refused it, he hath, 199 

the gold, they, 183 

to send farewell, 124 
Regard, and stronger, worthier of, 58 

for mercy, disclaiming all, 413 

may claim, some, 458 

to true merit should they have, 
427 

with this, 61 
Region of thick-ribbed ice, 90 
Register of the crimes, little more than 

the, 180 
Registered in heaven, is, 66 
Regret, sleep with nothing of, 62 
Regular, icily, 128 
Rehearsal of the past, 18 
Rehearse, a parrot may, 397 
Reign, 329 

in Georgius Primus', 31 

molest her ancient, solitary, 292 

of Chaos and old Night, 46 

pomp, rule, 89 

there alone, the dead, 75 

unless their subjects give, 202 

while Kehama shall, 69 
Reigned, could reign he, 329 
Reigneth, God, 154 
Reigns, here woman, 452 

nature in all the pomp of beauty, 
217 

over all, a good God, 154 
Rein, and snort to the, 387 

too much the, 70 
Rejoice 329 

at it, I, 7 

oft in crowds I might, 274 

the desert shall, 443 
Rejoiced in a pun, 197 
Rejoicing, sorrowing, toiling, 410 
Related, are often so nearly, 391 

to whom, 334 
Relation to plain bread and butter, 34 
Relation to the penalty, hath full, 213 



Release, the gladness of the world 's, 

300 
Reliance, with a firm, 307 
Relic of bygone days was he, a, 357 
Relics are laid, cold and unhonoured 
his, 274 

spread with human, 354 
Relief, bringeth but slight, 1 

make our death a glad, 89 

much thanks, for this, 57 

O give, 375 

to them 'tis a, 398 
Relies on, no man, 202 

still on hope, 185 
Relieved a picket, has just, 384 

by desperate appliance are, 86 

from a world of woe, 105 
Religion, 329, 330 

as rum and true, 344 

men's minds about to 14 
Religion's self into disfavour, 52 
Religions, 330 
Religious bird, not reckoned a, 52 

exercise, be a very rational, 401 

idea, depolarize every fixed, 85 

liberty, the school of, 1 1 1 

light, casting a dim, 225 
Reliques, his hallowed, 29 
Relish a love-song, to, 239 

of the saltness of time, 5 
Relished a joke, who, 197 
Remain below, my thoughts, 313 

whatever hath been written shall, 
465 
Remained to pray, 352 
Remains is bestial, and what, 332 

of her, all that, 454 

of thee, alone, 334 

to mark a friend 's, 145 

women come out to cut up what, 
373 
Remark, first I would, 171 

should captains the, 219 
Remarked before, I should have, 162 
Remedies, 330 

are past, when, 464 
Remedy, 330 

but they sought the, 242 

Orpheus who found no, 279 
Remember, 330, 331 

March, the ides of March, 190 

one, if thou wilt, 384 

that I am an ass, 13 

the pledge, 179 

yet, the power of beauty, I, 20 
Remembered, in their flowing cups 
freshly, 275 

in thy epitaph, not, 114 

kisses after death, dear as, 205 

not, sweet tones are, 209 
Remembering happier things, in, 375 
Remembers me of all, 165 
Remembrance, grace and, be to you 
both, 343 

not burthen our, 177 

of death, mitigate the, so 



678 



Index 



Remembrance, rosemary, that's for, 

343 
Remind us, all, 138 
Remnant of the week, the wicked, 247 
Remorse, farewell, 186 
Remote, 332 

Remove to Dunsinane, till Birnam 
wood, 25 

why should man's success, 342 
Removes, 332 

Removing this trifle, just in, 308 
Remuneration, 332 
Rend the chain, while they, 385 
Render, teach us all to, 260 

up their dead, 354 
Rendered unto her, for sin had, 369 
Rendering none, hope for mercy, 260 
Renew the broken vow, 1 79 

thy vows, 429 
Renewal, a fire that needs, 233 
Renews the life of joy, 435 
Renouncing clean the faith they have 

in tennis, 401 
Renown, of just and old, 144 

shall forfeit fair, 65 
Renowned be thy grave, 163 

than war, no less, 299 
Rent asunder, the clouds were, 26 

with civil feuds, 420 
Repaid, from his helpless creature be, 

82 
Repair, and battered to, 353 

his vigour lost, 293 
Repeating troublesome, and in the 
last, 400 

us by rote, 179 
Repeats his words, 165 
Repelled, each call for needful rest, 

3°4 
Repent each sinful act, 413 

what 's past, 60 
Repentance, 332 

comes, too late, 127 

to her lover, to give, 136 
Replevy cannot be, 127 
Reply churlish, the, the third, 218 

coldly would I shape, 274 

discreetly, 284 

lives no record of, 37 

not thine nor mine to question or, 
357 

theirs not to make, 90 

to God, shall, 147 
Repose, angels uncurtained that, 105 

has earned a night's, 410 

hushed in grim, 470 

for limbs with travel tired, 21 

may the wearied eye, 434 

in statue-like, 105 

joy and temperance and, 94 

more heart 's, 182 
Reposed, her land, 323 
Represent the Devil, 115 
Repressed their noble rage, penury, 

301 
Reprieve 's too late, all, 59 



Reproof, 332 

valiant, the, the fourth, 218 
Reptile, 332 

race, and all the, 345 
Republic of ours, in this, 54 
Reputation, 332 

for wisdom, 136 

seeking the bubble, 373 
Requiem, 332 

Requires that they should declare, 356 
Requisite, the first, of a good citizen. 

54 
Resemble copper wire, others rather 
276 

her to thee, when I, 343 

you in that, we will, 197 
Resembled thee, that man, 228 
Resembles sorrow only, and, 375 
Reserve, the great have kindness in, 

384 
Reserved of God, woman the last, the 

best, 453 
Reservoir, this year, a, 248 
Reside in thrilling region, 90 
Resign, 333 

his own for others' good, 159 
Resignation, and one half, 454 

none, by, 289 
Resigned, being e'er, 139 
Resist, fight, to suffer, 120 
Resistance death, submission bondage 

and, 391 
Resisted, know not what's, 172 
Resolute, 333 

in endeavour, 54 
Resolution, the native hue of, 61 
Resolve, a heart to, 173 

by sines and tangents straight, 6 

itself, thaw and, 134 

purpose to, 251 

that we here highly, 276 

with, to edge, 27 
Resolved, once to be, 97 

war open or understood must be 
43 ! 
Resolves and re-resolves, 251 

the moon into salt tears, 402 
Resort of desperate men, often the 

298 
Resources, the rock of the national, 

340 
Respect, a decent, to the opinions of 
mankind, 356 

or the sentiment of, 455 

talk with, 372 

yet a place of high. 378 
Respectability, the ultimum moriens of, 

171 
Respected, once that Peter was, 128 
Responsible for the conflagrations, 372 
Rest, 333, 334 

a perfect form in perfect, 302 

a thousand spears in, 179 

awhile, but oh, let me, 437 

can never dwell, where peace and, 
299 



Index 



679 



Rest 

dandled him to, 89 

each call for needful, 304 

ere life shall dawn on their, 97 

God knows, the, 87 

heaven is blessed with perfect, 409 

her soul she 's dead, but, 455 

he sinks into the last eternal, 62 

he was already at, 163 

His, 'round our restlessness, 154 

how sleep the brave who sink to, 34 

I bid thee, 12 

ill a-brewing toward my, 98 

in my own, shall never have, 448 

in the grave to his, 269 

in this bosom, 31 

is lies, the, 13s 

leaves to its eternal, 221 

like a warrior taking his, 433 

much veneration, but no, 317 

or the Turkman 's, 408 

our limbs at, 108 

you know the, 405 

perturbed spirit, 381 

shall the traitor, 83 

sweet clay from the, 179 

takes his one day's, 401 

that she may, 189 

the cushion and soft dean invite to, 
178 

thee here, but, 162 

thy best of, 80 

thy warfare o'er, 373 

to sneer, teach the, 71 

will not break their, 354 

to their lasting, 273 

turn to thy, 35 

two pale feet crossed in, 208 

wakens at this hour of, 23 

we shall be with those that, 222 

where to choose their place of, 462 

while you may, take, 390 
Resting from above, 267 

quality, true-fixed and, 62 
Resting-place, 334 
Restless, unsatisfied longing, the, 109 

violence, blown with, 90 
Restlessness, round our, 154 
Restore the dead, thou sea, 354 

the gift, till happier hours, 203 
Restorer, tired nature's sweet, 370 
Restrain and kepe wel thy tonge, is to, 

411 
Restraint she will not brook, 452 
Rests, 334 

and expatiates in a life to come, 186 

a woman, here, 452 
Result happiness, 192 

of Time, and the long, 352 
Resurrection, hand of the Angel of the, 

33 
Retain, but its teachings we, 117 

one jot of former love, 296 

that dear perfection, 275 

the offence, be pardoned and, 29s 
Retire alone, shalt thou, 334 



Retirement, short, urges sweet return, 

373 
Retort courteous, the, the first, 218 
Retreat, 334 

from his dark, 288 

that shall never call, 415 

was life's, 367 
Retrieved, is ne'er, 122 
Retrospection cursed, with many a, 

328 
Return, 334 

bid time, 468 

once dead, you never shall, 100 

no more, may, 77 

run to lisp their sire's, 175 

short retirement urges sweet, 373 

to Lochaber no more, we '11 maybe, 
229 

to me, and, 116 

to our muttons, to, 439 

to our wethers, to, 439 

to what base uses we may, 421 

truant husband should, 189 

with her from exile, 319 
Returns, no traveller, 79 

to tell us of the road, 72 
Reveal, or the lip, 174 
Revealed, the magnet was, 245 
Reveals, a late-lost form that sleep, 

442 
Revelation, friend Death in the, 1 1 
Revelry, 334 

midnight shout and, 129 
Revels keep, the winds their, 288 

now are ended, our, 428 

shall join in your, 116 
Revenge, 334, 335 

and study of, 231 

descend to, 7 

is as the tiger's spring, their, 45s 

shall we not, 197 

triumphs over death, 77 

whirligig of time brings in his, 407 

will not ambition and, 7 
Revengeful eyes, fix, 28 
Revenue, abundant streams of, 340 
Reverence, 335 

a thousand claims to, 323 

for the Sabbath day, your holy, 
345 

pay the, 121 
Revered abroad, loved at home, 352 
Reverend walls, I passed beside the, 

161 
Reverends, Right and Wrong, 75 
Review, can surely, 67 
Revisit'st thus the glimpses, 268 
Revive, use may, 379 
Revived might be, so thine, 10 
Reward of it all, the, 78 

succeeds, a sure, 427 

virtue is its own, 427 

virtue is to herself the best, 427 
Rewards, how the world its veterans, 

462 
Rlietoric, 335 



68o 



Index 



Rheum, villainy is not without such, 

426 
Rhine, and Rupert of the, 19 

it is well known, river, 58 

shall henceforth wash the river, 
58 
Rhine 's breast-milk, the, 344 
Rhine-wine, no German, 151 
Rhinoceros, the armed, 72 
Rhyme, 335, 336 

and scrawl and scribble, all, 466 

it hath taught me to, 239 

nor reason, the wherefore is neither, 
441 

our language yields, for which no, 
389 

things unattempted yet in prose or, 
319 

void of, as well as reason, 382 

who worshipped a, 308 
Rhymes, 336 
Rhyming, 336 

nay, I was, 335 
Rialto, 336 
Riband, 336 

Ribbed sea-sand, as is the, 253 
Ribbon, for the sake of a, 42 
Ribs, dainty bits make rich the, 298 
Rice, with handfuls of coals and, 175 
Rich, 336 

affords no law to make thee, 463 

and poor, feud of, 130 

and poor, unequal laws for, 115 

and rare were the gems she wore, 
. 149 

being, 22 

by easy trips, that the, 176 

for use, too, 2 1 

honesty dwells like a miser, 183 

how happy ought the, 266 

in blisses, her lip so, 204 

in deep hymns, 173 

in having such a jewel, as, 197 

in saving common sense, 43 

men rule the law, and, 214 

misers, compare our, 133 

no sin but to be, 22 

not gaudy, n 

or poor, whether he be, 248 

that its tone could reach the, 361 

the ribs, dainty bits make, 298 

the treasure, 16 

with the spoils of time, 406 
Richard's himself again, 180 
Richer than my tongue, more, 238 
Riches, 336 

and wisdom, quitteth both, 8 

keep thy, 354 

pleasant, to make thy, 336 

thou bar'st thy heavy, 336 
Richest hand, East with, 107 
Richly dight, storied windows, 225 
Richmonds, 337 
Rid of a knave, you are, 422 
Riddle of the world, the glory, jest and, 
462 



Ride, 337 

more than thou goest, 362 

the ring, for you alone I, 456 
Rider and horse, 40 

as a steed that knows his, 436 

those who wait the coming, 429 
Rides in the whirlwind, 388 

on every passing breeze, death, 77 

post, evil news, 281 

through hell, and, 432 

upon the storm, 154 
Ridiculous excess, wasteful and, 152 

never so, 70 

one step above the, 391 
Riding high, at her full and, 268 

near her' highest noon, 268 

o'er the azure realm, proudly, 470 

that night, fate of a nation was, 276 

the springy branches, 219 
Riding-whip, then with a, 384 
Rifle, just roll to your, 373 
Rift, 33 7 

of dawn, the, 207 
Rigged out in their s waller- tail coats, 

11 
Rigging, without an inch of, 73 
Right, 33 7, 338 

and not a single, 419 

a noisy man is always in the, 284 

an' wut ain't, idees o' wut 's, 431 

boldly claim his, 112 

by chance, be, 136 

every cranny but the, 231 

by him, to du wut 's, 320 

divine of kings to govern wrong, 161 

freedom and the, 143 

hand carry gentle peace, in thy, 299 

hand grows raging hot, 169 

hand, his red, 169 

hand, the willing strong, 48 

have boded all too, 211 

he knew it was not, 361 

his life, I 'm sure was in the, 120 

hold on to the, 55 

I kissed the rod, if, 67 

impossible that they should ever be, 
422 

in the law, like a poor man's, 214 

is a matter of, 289 

law an' order, honour, civil, 212 

little, tight, little island, a, 194 

make, the immemorial infamies, 467 

may she always be, 65 

no land yet, all 's, 435 

of at least two distinct looks, the, 
455 

of them, cannon to, 42 

once we thought it, no 

on English soil, has no, 409 

or flaw in, 356 

or wrong, our country, 65 

Reverends and Wrong Reverends, 75 

ring in the love of truth and, 418 

so long as there is wrong to, 219 

sounding generalities of natural, 149 

there is none to dispute, my, 266 



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68 1 



Right 

they set exactly, 67 

to dissemble your love, 93 

to do, as they 've good, 241 

to do a great, 213 

to do as he likes, his, 338 

to do the plainest, 54 

to man, salt that seasons, 312 

too fond of the, 141 

to one, conveys a, 129 

to question everything, the, 8 

to stay, still in the, 397 

way, be done in the, 459 

way to go, better . . . the, 159 

whose life is in the, 120 

with the world, all's, 154 

with two or three, in the, 368 

your honour 's in the, 66 

Righteous altogether, are true and, 
199 
kiss, seal with a, 118 
not to the, 324 

Righteousness, put on Christ's, 220 

Rightly to be great, 164 

Rights, 33S 

but know their, 385 
of all, and plead for the, 32 
of man, and the common, 413 
should lose, lest they their, 311 
to secure these, 161 
was won, I recollect how sailors', 
347 

Rigour of the game, the, 175 

Rili, there 's music in the gushing of a, 
272 

Rills of pleasure, the, 403 

Rim, beyond their utmost purple, 463 

Rind, sweetest nut hath sourest, 286 

Ring. 338, 339 

and a bright gold, 149 

for you alone I ride the, 456 

he made Ole Hundred, 50 

in redress to all mankind, 3 28 

in the common love of good, 160 

in the Christ that is to be, 5 1 

in the love of truth and right, 418 

in the nobler modes of life, 252 

in the thousand years of peace, 300 

in the true, 122 

in the valiant man and free, 422 

is on, the, 290 

out false pride in place and blood, 54 

out my mournful rhymes, 336 

out old shapes, 93 

out the darkness of the land, 72 

out the false, 122 

out the feud of rich and poor, 130 

out the grief, 166 

out the narrowing lust, 158 

out the thousand wars of old, 434 

out the want, the care, the sin, 430 

out, wild bells, 23 

the fuller minstrel in, 336 

Ringlet, 339 

Ringlets, her raven, 30 

Rings of rogues, the, 325 



Rings, quickly the sharp chisel, 410 

the bell that swings in its belfry, 464 

the woodland loud and long, now, 
457 
Riot, very fond of beef and, 249 
Ripe and rotten-ripe, time is, 46 

but his judgment, 198 

for exploits and mighty enterprises, 
470 

grapes, sours, 118 

in show thy lips, how, 226 
Ripened into faith, had, 121 
Ripeness is all, 157 
Ripening, greatness is a-, 164 
Riper stage, amuse his, 49 
Ripest fruit first falls, 146 
Rise again, but now they, 90 

again, truth crushed to earth shall, 
415 

and break, ere it, 82 

and fall, and her bay- tides, 32 

and successive, 250 

betime, we, 40 

by sin, some, 363 

can never, and fight again, 130 

created half to, 462 

foul deeds will, 83 

from outward things, takes no, 415 

from your dreams of the future, 409 

held we fall to, 337 

in, a way ... to, 140 

make your courage, 18 

on stepping-stones, 170 

or if you, 150 

the peoples, wherever, 144 

to-morrow 's sun to thee may never, 
84 

up, in his name, 358 

we build the ladder by which we, 
208 

while nights and larks are flying, 151 

will never, to fight again, 130 

with the lark, 210 
Risen up earth 's greatest nation, an', 

277 
Riser, an early, 151 
Rises dark o'er the way, 228 

in my breast, he, 333 

the Sultan, 401 

up, and every dirty reptile, 332 

with his pearl, a prince he, 93 
Rising from a humble root, 461 

from the sea, Proteus, 293 

in cloudy majesty, 268 

in his, 85 

on its wrecks, if, 170 

sun, let others hail the, 392 

sun, tinged with the, 56 

to great place is by a winding stair, 
305 
Risks all landsmen run, know what, 

347 
Rites, till love have all his, 407 
Rival, 339 
Rivals, 339 

through fear of foreign, no 



Index 



Riven, then shook the hills with 

thunder, 13 
River, 339 

adown the Danube, 72 

brink, wild on the, 182 

in the eye, fruitful, 448 

let us cross over the, 333 

meet, the brook and, 246 

never be passed on the, 329 

of sluggish blood, a very, 133 

on the banks of that lonely, 296 

Rhine, shall henceforth wash the, 
58 

save the rush of the, 311 

shore, upon the, 3 

swap horses while crossing the, 394 

the broad bay and the rapid, 437 

the vast, calm, 403 
River's brim, a primrose by a, 316 
Rivers be red, or the winding, 212 

cannot quench, 131 

like subterranean, 451 

our lives are, 228 

shed of tears, 38 

run to seas, 167 

up, drinks twice, 101 
Rivets loose, racketing her, 215 
Rivulet of text, a neat, 293 
Rivulets, 339 
Roach and dace, 32 
Road is sometimes very stiff and 
tiring, 460 

it is rough, the, 298 

I was to wander in, the, 365 

one that on a lonesome, 128 

returns to tell us of the, 72 

thorns and briars in his, 374 

to Mandalay, on the, 252 

understand the law of the, 455 

who takes no private, 278 
Roads, by many strange, 257 

for ports and piers and, 444 

we cannot see his, 155 
Roam, absent from Him I, 278 

but not their hearts, that, 367 

where'er we, 182 

fools who, 182 

howe'er thy footsteps, 182 

though we may, 182 
Roar, 339 

aloud, others, 36 

and music in its, 457 

and ready to, 387 

nor tempests, 89 

now, hark don't ye hear it, 285 

of gun, clang of bell and, 23 

the breakers, 2 

the cannon 's opening, 1 2 

wont to set the table on a, 468 

of the billows on the shore, 19 
Roared and howled, and, 190 
Roaring and gleaming, our days come, 

bows, for a hammock at the, 8 
Roast an egg, the learned, 108 
beef of old England, 22 



Rob it of some taste of tediousness, 
400 

the bee of her honey, 133 

the luckless town, that, 325 
Robbed, 340 

the whole tree, have, 115 

who broke and, a house below, 306 
Robbers, but for supporting, 36 
Robbery have authority, for their, 386 
Robbing, like one that fears, 239 

Peter he paid Paul, by, 302 
Robe, 340 

disrobe the lion of that, 226 

dyeing the white, 413 

nor the judge 's, 260 

the snows are my, 284 

well did he become that lion's, 226 
Robes are on, when all her, 20 

loosely flowing, 364 

the gleam of their snowy, 339 

weave, let not the idle wear, 35s 
Robin Adair, 340 
Robin-redbreast, like a, 239 
Robin's breast, comes upon the, 241 
Robinson he, but John P., n, 461 
Robs me of that which not enriches 
him, 275 

the vast sea, 402 
Rock, 340 

and reel, how the belfries, 23 

and sat upon a, 439 

a pendent, 56 

cut from the living, 73 

dislimns, the, 56 

he bore, his back against a, 136 

moulder piecemeal on the, 28 

not his cradle, if drink, 100 

shall fly, this, 136 

thee, its passions will, 297 
Rocked in the cradle of the deep, 84 
Rocket, 340 

Rocket's red glare, 17 
Rock-pines, and the dark, 184 
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, 

180 
Rocks, 340 

pure gold, and the, 197 

the peril of water, winds and, 359 

to pasture on the, 325 

to soften, 272 
Rod, 341 

and a chief's a, 183 

if right I kissed the, 67 

of empire might have swayed, 109 

stretch forth thy, 388 

then spare the, 232 
Rode brightest, till the moon, 268 

by on his vocation, 1 1 

in his shroud, and, 332 

the six hundred, 90 
Roderick then, where was, 39 
Rogers, only Mrs. Something, 296 
Rogue, 341 

that I am, 247 
Rogues obey you well, the, 280 
Roll, a few more years shall, 222 



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683 



Roll all earthly pomp and boast, 228 

like a smithy-shop aft ;r every, 54 

of common men, 59 

on, thou deep and dark-blue ocean, 
288 

the stone from its grave away, 186 

to your rifle, just, 373 

when the drums begin to, 180 

where waves can, 161 
Rolled from wing to wing, 308 

in one another 's arms, 108 

into one, 150 

molten, graven, hammered and, 157 

not, through it there, 386 

tears adown that dusky cheek have, 
174 

to starboard, rolled to larboard, 354 

up like a scroll, is, 191 
Roller, 341 

Rollest now, thou, 406 
Rolling rapidly, the flow of Iser, 225 

the sea was mountains, 188 

the stone that is, 388 
Rolls his ceaseless course, time, 406 

the moon 's unclouded grandeur, 268 

through the dark blue depths, 268 

to its appointed end, that, 322 
Roman, 341 

hand, the sweet, 169 

holiday, to make a, 181 

honour, the ancient, 145 

knows, that pride a, 285 

senate long debate, can a, 430 

such a, 36 
Roman 's part, to act a lover 's or a, 236 
Romans, 341 

were like brothers, 341 
Rome, 342 

and groined the aisles of Christian, 
39 

falls, and when, 57 

in the height of her glory, 112 

more than the Pope of, 310 

more, that I loved, 41 
Romeo, 342 

called, were he not, 275 
Rome's quarrels, Romans in, 341 
Rondo, and some compose a, 146 
Rood of ground, when every, 166 
Roof, ever upon the topmost, 112 

may shake, 44 

of the church, high on the, 314 

shows leak in, 356 

who living had no, 183 
Roofs of the world, over the, 468 
Rooked her on the chimney 's top, 25 
Room as for thy laws, who sweeps a, 
102 

below, in that silent, 55 

enough, is, 381 

for wit, no, 172 

hard for some people to get out of a, 
212 

in hell, another, 178 

in the worst inn 's worst, 464 

like a bridegroom from his, 351 



Room, moor herself within my, 73 

must I give way and, 50 

no wit for so much, 172 

on entering a, 85 

to give some labourers, 436 

up, grief fills the, 165 

with civet in the, 54 
Root and all, in my hand, 135 

could not flourish at its, 445 

nips his, 164 

of all evil, love of money is the, 267 

of evil, money, the, 266 

reason the, 327 

rising from a humble, 461 

the, may not be blighted, 149 

the tree of deepest, 224 
Rooted, so strongly, 114 
Roots are wrapped about the bones, 
thy, 468 

began to spread their, 31 

by so many, 156 

he cut our, 62 

plucked up kisses by the, 204 

wood, bark and leaves, 308 
Rope of sand, as tough a, 57 
Rory O'More, said, 286 
Rosalind, such a nut is, 286 
Rose, 342, 343 

and blooms a, 105 

and blossoms as the, 443 

at an instant, 224 

at Jesus' word, as Mary, 338 

but underneath the, 413 

how to occasion's height he, 287 

in blood, 142 

is she, red as a, 36 

is sweetest, the, 398 

like a rocket, as he, 340 

of her cheek, the, 153 

that which we call a, 275 

the dumb old servitor, then, 357 

the expectancy and, 263 

the lark, merrily, 210 

the morrow morn, he, 346 

the reddening of the, 207 

the wilderness shall blossom as the, 



443 

till she bloom like a, 226 

when he, 393 

with grave aspect he, 85 
Rosebud, 343 
Rosebuds, 343 
Rosemary, 343 

Rose's hope, life is the, 219 
Roses, 343 

grow on thorns, so, 403 

in December, seek, 67 

like the vase in which, 258 

only, breathing of, 100 

the scent of the, 258 

they twine, soft as the, 426 
Rosin and pine, and her furnace 

crammed, 346 
Rot, and to, 90 

asleep to the grave, 144 

beneath the sod, better, 213 



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Index 



Rot, clear that I shall, 89 

in sheep, the, 306 

propagate and, 306 

the very deep did, 84 
Rote, learned and conned by, 15 

repeating us by, 179 

words learned by, 397 
Rotted off his flesh, 15 
Rotten, 344 

apples, small choice in, 11 

at the heart, 1 1 

case abides no handling, 44 

fens, reek o' the, 69 
Rotten-ripe, time is ripe and, 46 
Rotting inward, that, 337 
Rough as nutmeg-graters, be, 280 

turns earth's smoothness, 328 

work, men that do the world's, 306 
Roughen to the sense, in which they, 

35 7 
Roughest weather, life 's spring for his, 

409 
Rough-hew them how we will, 94 
Roughly since I heard thee last, 227 
Round about the cauldron go, 45 

attains the upmost, 7 

belly, a little, 24 

by round, we mount . . . , 208 

in a light fantastic, 409 

of blood, and the quick, 220 

of life, so runs the, 224 

or two before, a, 333 

the moon was. 106 

the square, and all, 383 

the world away, and, 469 

thinks the world turns, 151 

travelled life's dull, 192 

with solemn, 26 
Rounded with a sleep, is, 428 
Roundel, a little, 53 
Roundhead 's pike, now he wards a, 

383 
Rouse before the morn, have a, 69 

him at the name of Crispian, 66 

to their preys do, 282 
Roused from their slumbers, 282 

the Atlantic was, 296 
Rousing herself like a strong man, 277 
Rout, cries amid the. 383 

in reel and,_8i 

on rout, ruin upon ruin, 344 

tolls out above the city's, 264 

where meet a public, 253 
Routed all his foes, 19 
Rove, 344 
Row, 344 

an awkward hand in a. 135 

to live in such a, 290 
Rowel-head, up to the, 345 
Royal banner, the, 125 

state, throne of, 107 

throne of kings, this, 112 
Rub, there 's the, 98 

the sore, you, 374 
Rubbish to the void, or cast as, 160 
Rudder held, with dying hand the, 304 



Rudder is of verses, rhyme the, 335 
Rude am I in my speech, 380 

forefathers of the hamlet, 108 

that would not be a Roman, so, 341 
Rudely as before, not so, 183 
Rue, 344 

for wine, press the, 402 

nought shall make us, 112 

the child may, 419 

there 's rosemary and, 343 
Rufa, whose eye quick-glancing, 410 
Ruffles, is like giving a pair of laced, 
360 

it's like sending them, 360 
Rugged elms, beneath those, 108 
Ruin, 344 
Ruin and leave her, 83 

behold this, 367 

deep in, 342 

hurled, systems into, 38 

majestic though in, 85 

marks the earth with, 288 

or to rule the state, 385 

swept, found he had to, 342 

to save, to, 157 
Ruined by Chinese cheap labour, 50 
Ruins of the noblest man, the, 250 

old, that creepeth o'er, 195. 

since the world began, their, 228 
Rule above, one, 378 

and so with holy, 341 

no man doth safely, 287 

of interest, his simple, 193 

of men, beneath the, 301 

of speech, the law and, 379 

severe by, 341 

sufuceth them, the good old, 396 

supremacy and sway, seek for, 456 

the law, and rich men, 214 

the Sachem learned the, 181 

the state, ruin or to, 385 

the waves, Britannia, 37 

what is pomp, 89 

will hold, the same, 126 
Ruled, a man a woman, 449 

her like a thing of life who, 436 
Ruler and conqueror, he the true, 410 
Rulers in all lands, 147 

they, unprophetic, 106 
Rules and hammers, with greasy 
aprons, 368 

him, if she, 189 

of courtesy, the, 455 

the court, the camp, the grove, 237 

the land, wrong, 417 
Ruling passion, be it what it will, 297 

passion strong in death, your, 297 
Rum, 344 

Rumble of a distant drum, 44 
Rumour of oppression and deceit, 
where, 229 

that ye hear, the, 461 
Run again upon the score, yet I am, 
365 

all crinkly like curled maple, 423 

amuck, too discreet to, 350 



Index 



685 



Run. and they shall, 330 

at, that which we, 292 

away, only they conquer love who, 
234 

down, and all the wheels, 290 

from the white man, 181 

its course, until our race has, 191 

over by a locomotive, if she is, 415 

they are weary ere they, 437 

smooth, course of true love never 
did, 238 

that readeth it, he may, 34s 

we fight and we, 130 
Runaway young star, curb a, 9 
Rung her changes well, 244 
Runneth awaie, man that, 130 
Running, 344, 345 

crossways, for things are, 53 

if when for life 's prizes you 're, 220 

of the race, life is the, 221 

through caverns of darkness, 451 
Runs, 345 

a thrill of joy prophetic, 143 

away, fights and, 130 

before her actions, a woman's 
thought, 453 

fast, the stream, 344 

one increasing purpose, 322 

the world away, 84 

through the town, wee Willie 
Winkie, 443 

with a letter, and, 301 
Rupert of the Rhine, and, 19 

where was, 39 
Rush in, fools, 138 

into the secret house, 79 

into the skies, and, 316 

into the state, will, 315 

in where horses fear to tread, wheels, 
. 439 

of the river, save the, 311 

together at last, 339 
Rushed, and on they, 179 

into the field, he, 131 

the steed to battle driven, then, 13 

together, and our spirits, 226 

together at last, 339 
Russet mantle clad, the morn in, 269 
Russian bear, the rugged, 72 
Rust, 345 

and his good sword, 29 

iron, this peace is nothing but to, 
299 

we value, it is the, 14 
Rustic health, simple beauty and, 172 
Rusts ingloriously, 26 
Rusty, 345 

for want of fighting had grown, 26 
Ruth among the fields of corn, 120 
Rye, coming through the, 203 



Sabbath, 345 

he who ordained the, 310 
who backs his rigid, 247 

Sabbath-breaker, the greatest, 421 



Sable cloud, there does a, 56 
Sable-coloured melancholy, 258 
Sachem learned the rule, the, 181 
Sack, 346 

seven deadly sins in a flagon of, 26 
Sacred thing is that old arm-chair, 12 
Sacrifice, thine ancient, 139 
Sacrifices, considering her, 62 
Sad, 346 

and bad and mad it was, how, 394 

and you lose them all, 132 

are these we daily see, more, 346 

by fits, 'twas, 133 

morn came dim and, 105 

music of humanity, the still, 188 

one, and mine a, 463 

say I 'm, 204 

than experience to make me, 261 

sincerity, wrought in a, 39 

tires in a mile-a, 174 

vicissitudes of things, the, 425 

words of tongue or pen, of all, 346 
Sadder, 346 
Saddest, 346 

of the year, the, 257 
Saddle, great in the, 164 
Sadly, when you looked, 239 
Sadness and longing, feeling of, 375 

of farewell, no, 18 
Safe and warm, to whar it was, 404 

and warmly laid, know me, 283 

home, and comes, 66 

in ourselves, 353 

to be direct and honest is not, 183 
Safeguard of personal health, test and, 
460 

of their brood, doves will peck in, 
463 
Safer being meek, it's, 159 
Safest and seemliest by her husband 

stays, 443 
Safety abroad, our peace at home and, 
299 

the mother of, 128 

pot of ale and, 6 

we pluck this flower, 280 
Safety-valve, 346 

Saffron, red peppers, mussels, 32 
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, 8 
Sage, 346 

and by, 127 

a leader, 46 

or sophist, saint, 367 

truths half so, 418 
Sager, till by losing, rendered, 429 
Sages have seen in thy face, 373 

in all time assert, as, 360 

said by ancient, 224 
Said, after all is, 94 

but they all mostly, 314 

little, is soonest mended, 260 

more easily be thought than, 166 

much that is original, has, 291 

on both sides, much may be, 363 

to me, say the tale as 'twas, 396 

't was no matter what he, 256 



686 



Index 



Said, what further can be, 228 

who never to himself hath, 65 
Sail, and fills the white and rustling, 
359 

learn of the little nautilus to, 278 

o'er silent seas again, to, 360 

forth into the sea of life, 443 

on, ship of state, 359 

set every threadbare, 133 

what avail the plough or, 143 
Sailing away to the west, 132 

o'er life '3 solemn main, 138 

to and fro, but are, 360 
Sailor, 346 

at the wheel, I see the, 200 

home from sea, home is the, 163 

said the, though I can't refuse, 
321 
Sailors, 347 

and half our, 231 

but men, 359 

with bearded lips, Spanish, 360 
Sails, argosies of magic, 59 

no steady wind in its, 102 

toward me, one, 315 
Saint, 347, 348 

a blackleg, 247 

a self-elected, 316 

by, by savage, 127 

eppylets worn't the best mark of a, 
431 

himself, no wonder that the, 440 

provoke, 'twould a, 75 

run mad, is a, 245 

sage, or sophist, can all, 367 
Saint Andrew's College, fresh from, 

279 
Saint Augustine, well hast thou said, 

170 
Saint Bothan's ale, the monks of, 267 
Saint Davy's day, upon, 216 
Saint Giles's sins, frown upon, 367 
Saint John mingles with my friendly 

bowl, 327 
Saint Keyne, 348 
Saint Martin's summer, 168 
Saint Nicholas, soon would be there, 

Saint Pat, he taught them that, 440 

Saint Patrick, 348 

Sainted man, sure he must be, 328 

Saintly mountebanks the porch dis- 
grace, 52 

Saints, 348, 349 

above, and men below and, 237 

and for the Lord, for the, 395 

great men may jest with, 196 

one of those self-constituted, 347 

reforming, 345 

should scorn, why the, 218 

soul is with the, 29 

that stubborn crew of errant, 329 

with, dost bait thy hook, 347 

Saint-seducing gold, 158 

Sake, blameless for thy, 104 
break for your sweet, 246 



Sake, make the one verse for the 
other's, 335 

not for their, 394 

that died for England's, 113 

wear this, for my, 251 

we grow more partial for th' ob- 
server's, 445 
Sake 's sake, yet for old, 96 
Saki from that bowl has poured, 39 

you shall pass, 152 
Salad, 349 

marjoram of the, 179 
Salad-bowl, plunge his fingers in the, 

349 
Sale, one that hath a horse on, 187 
Sally, there 's none like pretty, 6 

to walk abroad with, 74 
Salmon, and the first, 32 
Salt, 349 

breaks his bread and tastes his, 12 

might the lump of, 465 

of most unrighteous tears, the, 399 

that seasons right to man, 312 

to add a double quantity of, 349 
Saltness agree, oil, vinegar, sugar and, 
349 

of time, s 
Salutary effect, has a very, 372 

neglect, a wise and, 280 
Salutation to the morn, 57 
Salutes, but sisterly, 204 
Salvation, none of us should see, 260 
Samaritan, 349 
Same again, life is never the, 203 

are never twice the, 381 

by day, will not look the, 468 

if 't is not the, 236 

what reason I should be the, 232 

with God, are all the, 155 

woman I love are the, 274 
Sanctified the crime, 272 
Sanctimonious face, no solemn, 25 
Sanction of authority, and show by, 

92 
Sanctity, his kissing is as full of, 205 
Sand, as men wrecked upon a, 465 

as tough a rope of, 57 

if all their, 197 

thy vows are traced in, 450 

washes it out from the, 138 

whose name was traced in, 274 
Sandal shoon, and his, 57 
Sandals fair, I would not dim my, 152 
Sands, 349 

betwixt two tides, these, 222 

of time, on the, 138 

on the shore, count how many, 205 

out on the shining, 132 

ran itself in golden, 241 

small, the mountain, 414 

to the golden, 247_ 

would steer too nigh the, 304 
Sandstone, 350 
Sandwich, 3 so 

Sandwiches of veal, like, 204 
Sane than mad, it 's fitter being, 159 



Index 



687 



Sang of love and not of fame, 241 

the lips elated, here, 3 74 

the song of the shirt, he, 361 

this song of the shirt, she, 361 
Sans end, 103 

everything, 49 
Sap of reason, if with the, 327 
Sapphires set in snow, her eyes are, 
118 

with living, 268 
Sappho at her toilet 's greasy task, 410 
Sapping a solemn creed, 66 
Saps the mind, grief that, 166 
Sarcastic, 350 
Sarmatia fell, 142 
Sat down beneath our tree, 182 

like a cormorant, 63 

perched and, and nothing more, 325 

side by side, where we, 387 

there, a mother, 12 
Satan, 350 

exalted sat, 107 

finds some mischief, 190 

gave thereat his tail, 432 

uses Bible words, 353 
Satchel in his hand, with his, 440 

the whining schoolboy with his, 352 
Sate like a cormorant once, 63 
Sated guest, claims the, 333 

here grief and death were, 374 
Satin, should be writ on, 210 
Satire, 350 

Satirist, a would-be, 245 
Satisfied, well paid that is well, 293 

who by repentance is not, 332 
Satisfies, where most she, 5 
Saturday and Monday, comes be- 
twixt the, 74 

eve, on every, 386 
Sauce of syrup of poppy, 96 

to meat is ceremony, 129 
Sauced our broths, and, 62 
Savage, 350 

anti-e very things, lean, hungry, 10 

bark grows sharp and, 64 

bosoms, that in even, 156 

breast, charms to soothe a, 272 

by, by saint, 127 

that is understood by the, 314 
Savageness out of a bear, she will sing 

the, 19 
Save, alike to kill or, 227 

has never a soul to, 45 1 

hast power to, 84 

his country's life to, 432 

me from the candid friend, 145 

modest truth and beauty, 449 

one 's own, to, 378 

our gracious king, God, 201 

ourselves, to, 376 

our sinful souls to, 345 

the austere virtues strong to, 185 

thee, and shield thee and, 9 

the imperilled state, and, 276 

themselves from slaughter, to, 372 

the one, to, 15 s 



Save thy sailor, praying God will, 347 

to ruin, to, 157 

unhappy dust thou would'st not, 76 

us a life, it never could, 230 

us from being tempted, 313 
Saved, a race delivered, a nation, 277 

in vulgar company, than, 149 

without it, states can be, 301 
Saves, hangs or, 306 
Saving a little child, I think that, 404 

common sense, rich in, 43 
Saviour, 351 

jf 'is country, but it's, 410 

stung her, 67 

was born on Christmas Day, 51 

who in Christ the, 220 

with his law of love, the, 235 
Saviour 's name, where they cant of a, 

208 
Savour, gives it an ill, 52 

these keep seeming and, 343 
Savoury, will make what's homely, 

388 
Saw its God and blushed, 435 

the air, nor do not, 379 

the day, he first, 348 

with his own eyes, 106 
Saws, full of wise, 199 

of books, all, 331 
Saxon phrase, that ancient, 157 
Say, 351 

each night, boldly, 408 

fain would I, 429 

farewell, and looks around to, 70 

hapless woman ne'er can, 451 

he that no more must, 105 

logic is logic, that's all I, 230 

nay, 215 

no, to mean yes an', 283 



no : 



162 



secure within, can, 408 

that's what I always, 96 

the tale as 'twas said to me, 396 

they are fools that marry, 255 

to all the world, and, 250 

to yourself, if you sometimes, 85 

well, to, 459 

what will Mrs. Grundy, 166 

you 're welcome, to, 438 
Saying, wine and truth is the, 444 

wise and old, 28 
Says a foolish thing, he never, 202 

in verse what others say in prose, 
424 

to all, an ancient timepiece, 280 

to the earth, the earth, 106 
Scabbards, would have leaped frori 

their, 50 
Scaffold, 351 

sways the future, yet that, 417 

to the skies, his throne a, 317 

truth for ever on the, 417 
Scale, 351 

he by geometric, 6 

if that ain't Judas on the largest, 
198 



Index 



Scaled, the rampart wall had, 87 

Scales, will turn the, 351 

Scan, exact my own defects to, 260 

presume not God to, 250 

their merits or their faults to, 305 
Scandal, 351 

Scandalous and poor, a merry mon- 
arch, 266 
Scandals, 351 
Scans and spells, but, 458 
Scar brought from some well-fought 

field, 198 
Scarce, where words are, 105 
Scarcity, in the very first, 26 
Scarfs, garters, gold, 49 
Scarlet, dyeing, 102 
Scars, 351 
Scarse in that, 117 

Scatter seeds, we, with careless hand, 
_ 355 
Scattered, 351 

it, and piecemeal, 465 

through the Sandwich Isles, Ham 's 
were, 350 

when the cloud is, 209 
Scene, at aught this, 377 

monarchs to behold the swelling, 
383 

that mistress of the, 81 
Scenes like these, from, 352 

of my childhood, 49 

where love and bliss immortal 
reign, 27 

to bring such visionary, 266 
Scent of the roses, the, 258 

the morning air, me thinks I, 269 
Scents the evening gale, that, 402 
Sceptre and crown must tumble down, 
103 

learning, physic must, 103 

shows the force, his, 260 
Sceptred isle, this, 112 
Scheme, centre of thy frozen, 419 
Schemes o' mice and men, 261 
Schnapps, 351 

Scholar, the gentleman and, 58 
Scholar 's, the courtier 's, soldier *s, 263 
Scholars, wherein your worldly, 122 
School, before he's sent to, 467 

experience keeps a dear, 117 

never was there, 200 

of religious liberty, in 

unwillingly to, 352 

with heavy looks, toward, 239 
Schoolboy, 352 

a laughing, 219 

to sigh like a, 239 

with his satchel in his hand, 440 
Schoolboys from their books, as. 239 
Schooldays, in my joyful, 307 
Schoolmaster, 352 
Schools, less flogging in our great, 135 

and were there, 176 
Science, 352 

a sort of hocus-pocus, 212 

frowned not, fair, 257 



Science 

of mankind is man, the only, 250 

of our law, the lawless, 2 14 

of purer, 252 

seeds of, 1 

talk of your, 94 

the eel of, 192 

to forget, hardest, 139 
Scientific gent, for any, 171 

gent, not decent for a, 340 
Scoff, 352 

Scoffing and abuse, 368 
Scold, inclines us more to laugh than, 

212 
Sconce, to knock him about the, 214 
Scooped down, they just, 404 
Scorch them up like flax, to, 347 

thy smiling grace, whose glance 
would, 377 
Score and the tally, the, 317 

all shall eat and drink on my, 267 

more than two tens to a, 362 

yet I am run again upon the, 365 
Scorn, dangers thou canst mak' us, 19 

delights, to, 123 

the shocking hat, man and nature, 
171 

to grinning, 195 

to touch . . . the thing that is 
mean, 55 

Tre, Pol and Pen, will they, 63 

why the saints should, 218 

will laugh a siege to, 17 
Scorned amid the reeling strife, 43 1 

his own, he, 448 

by nature is mocked and. 277 

the flashing goblet, has, 321 
Scornful, 352 

curve, thy nose turned up in, 304 

jest, is a, 195 
Scornfully, touch her not, 434 
Scorning the base degrees, 7 

to revenge, is, 335 
Scorns and mocks, he who nature, 277 

of time, the whips and, 323 

the immortal min'"_, but, 262 
Scotch, 352 

Scotched the snake, not killed it, 372 
Scotia, 352 

Scotia's food, chief of, 310 
Scotland, in, at the Orcades, 284 
Scoundrel the refuge of a, 298 
Scoundrels, 352 
Scour a tribe, enough to, 266 
Scoured to nothing with perpetual 

motion, 345 
Scourge of hell, the snare and, 157 

of past prosperity, she makes a, 265 

of war, this mighty, 199 
Scourged to his dungeon. 227 
Scowl, if the brow of the foeman 

should, 226 
Scrap of anything, really not a, 48 
Scraps are good deeds past, those, 407 
Scratch the nurse, will, 341 
Scratched with a stick, 13 



Index 



Scratches her finger, if she, 415 
Scrawl and scribble, all rhyme and, 

466 
Scream, heard the owl, 83 
Screech-owl shrieks, again the, 282 
Screech-owls, 352 
Screw your courage, but, 119 
Screwed it up with pins, they, 208 
Scribble, all rhyme and scrawl and, 

466 
Scribbled o'er, parchment being, 295 
Scribbler, 353 

a monthly, 24s 
Scripture, 353 

Scroll, how charged with punishments 
the, 126 

is rolled up like a, 19 1 

of gold, kissed that haughty, 1 1 1 
Scrolls a breath can float the, 144 
Scruple, 353 
Scruples, 353 

Scrutiny, make no deep, 20 
Scud and the palm-trees, but over the, 

113 
Scuds along, as it swiftly, 23 
Scullery, shrills from tile to, 253 
Sculptor 's art, the, 410 
Scutcheon, honour is a mere, 185 
Scutcheons of silver, with, 317 
Scuttled ship or cut a throat, ever, 262 
Scylla, 353 

Scythe and spade, with the poor 
crooked 103 

raise not your, 345 

spirit of the glass and, 406 

the mower whets his, 307 
Sea, 353, 354 

across the, 225 

and if we gang to, 267 

and land, both by, 189 

and land, dominion over, 402 

and on the purple, in 

and sweeps the, 376 

and the magic of the, 360 

and the moonbeams kiss the, 204 

away to the, 247 

a wet sheet and a flowing, 359 

bluffed the eternal, 115 

bounty is as boundless as the, 239 

broke over them, all at once a, 465 

but if upon the troubled, 149 

by life's unresting, 376 

by the deep, 457 

down yon dark, 18 

drenched me in the, 131 

foot of thy crags, O, 161 

for a thousand years, we have fed 
our, 113 _ 

his footsteps in the, 154 

home is the sailor home from, 163 

I have ships that went to, 360 

in rage deaf as the, 324 

in the bottom of the, 102 

itself, the, 101 

lookin' eastward to the, 251 

looking lazy at the, 392 



Sea 

loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark, 405 

my bark is on the, 28 

my fortunes are at, 141 

my God! there is no, 190 

nearer the crystal, 278 

not only on the deep, 437 

of glory, in a, 153 

of glory, like a, 216 

of life, sail forth into the, 443 

of melting pearl, a, 399 

of men, a, 119 

of the mind, the troubled, 369 

of troubles, 19 

of upturned faces, 119 

on a wide, wide, 7 

one foot in, 83 

or land, light that never was on, 225 

open as the, 267 

our heritage the, 286 

Proteus rising from the, 293 

robs the vast, 402 

set in the silver, 112 

sing the dangers of the, 346 

so lone, never was, 113 

the, and the air, 196 

the demons down under the, 236 

the Severn to the, 441 

through the desperate winter, 281 

thy cold grey stones, O, 35 

to that unfathomed, boundless, 2 28 

was all a boiling seething froth, 147 

was mountains rolling, the, 188 

waves o'er every, 133 

when I put out to, 17 

white as the foamy, 357 

young Jamie ga'ed to, 68 
Sea-coal fire when not too dear, no 
Seal, did seem to set his, 250 

that he was fain to, 336 

the bargain with a holy kiss, 204 

to such a bond, I '11, 197 
Sealed, in phials hermetically, 393 
Sealing-wax, of shoes and ships and, 

430 
Seam and gusset and band, 460 
Seaman 's eye, to guide the, 245 

knell, ring the dead, 205 
Seamen, 355 

pity lovers rather more than, 389 
Sea-mew, and shrieks the wild, 2 
Sea-monster, than the, 192 
Sea-water, squeezing out the, 296 
Sear,{the yellow leaf, is fallen into the, 

223 
Search a planet's house, they '11, 306 

forbear, in pity from the, 328 

of a word, love in, 273 

the globe round, 194 

the heavens for power, and, 402 

the patient, and vigil long, 467 

will find it out, 14 
Sears, a man 's half, 398 
Sea 's a thief, the, 402 
Seas, 35s 

again, to sail o'er silent, 360 



690 



Index 



Seas 

as twenty, 197 

climb hills of, 400 

incarnadine, the multitudinous, 169 

I 've seen your stormy, 389 

rivers run to, 167 

that guard our native, no 

the wealth of, 464 

'twixt two boundless, 222 
Sea-sand, as is the ribbed, 253 
Sea-shell, 't is an empty, 375 
Sea-shore, like a boy playing on the, 

4i7 
Season after, and for a, 98 

from that time unto this, 33s 

of Christmas, at the, 48 

she hath dressings fit, for every, 20 

so it would have done at the same, 
277 

there's no such, 382 

thus beaten out of, 441 
Seasoned with a gracious voice, 213 
Seasons, all, day and night, 361 

come, a few more, 222 

justice, when mercy, 260 

right to man, salt that, 312 

roll, as the swift, 376 
Seat in parliament, a, 42 

is the bosom of God, her, 212 

is up on high, thy, 270 

made the throne her, 265 

me at his board, and, 365 

of Mars, this, 112 

was thought's mysterious, 367 

while memory holds a, 331 
Seated one day at the organ, 291 
Sea-water, squeezing out the, 296 
Second birth, bring her children forth 
to, 353 

childishness and mere oblivion, 49 

Daniel, a, 72 

each, I'm new-born, 376 

each, stood heir to the first, 315 

leg, leave my, 138 

marriage, I made a, 426 
Seconds less, some, 186 
Secret darkness, in, 154 

house of death, 79 

it rolls, though in, 274 

of love's persistency, 117 
Secret prepossession, a, 79 

should be told, lest her, 277 

sleep, like the, 154 

spilt on the ground like water, 173 

yet, to me's a, 220 
Secretary, good at pen and ink, 92 
Secrets of the grave, the, 368 

to tell the, 380 

who search the, 376 
Sect, slave to no, 278 
Sects, the two-and-seventy jarring, 
162 

unite, principles your jarring, 162 
Secure and safe, 189 

here we may reign, 329 

I rest, 84 



Secure these rights, to, 161 

within, can say, 408 
Secured our fame, well, 89 
Securest to thee, when all seemeth, 

435 
See, 3SS 

a bear, may go . . . to, 393 

a friendly eye could never, 128 

and lovers cannot, 243 

before I doubt, I '11, 195 

ere thou go, 230 

her, when you shall, 243 

her, you cannot, 240 

him, and you shall, 137 

his roads, we cannot, 155 

in every hedgerow marks of angels' 
feet, 460 

in my mind, methinks I, 277 

I see a hand you cannot, 428 

it clear, how few they are, 433 

it is to have a vision of home, to, 133 

me more, no man, 122 

more sad are these we daily, 346 

of Rome, the great metropolis and, 
342 

oh say can you, 17 

or hear, whom they cannot, 455 

our eyes might sometimes, 321 

our Lord to, 470 

the human soul take wing, to, 376 

the right, as God gives us to, 337 

thee still, I, 70 

the veil through which I could not, 
423 

them more, dream we ne'er shall, 
355 

this and bless heaven, 50 

through all things, 57 

through heaven's gate, 292 

thy hand, could'st not, 72 

what I see, 355 

which thou canst not, 337 

while you can stand and, 131 
Seed, 35 5 

by him that sowed no, 460 

of a nation, as the living, 276 

shall spring a plenteous, 441 
Seeing, shall take heart again, 138 

the worst, by, 464 
Seeds, 355 

of godlike power, 157 

of science called his A B C, 1 
Seek, 3SS 

all day, you shall, 327 

but cheerly, 231 

death, thou shalt, 69 

it, shall we not, 209 

it, we, 231 

it vainly, I have sought but I, 51 

me, never more thou needest, 207 

no friend save honour, 184 

roses in December, 67 

sech peace, than, 299 

the treasure, for those who, 462 

to receive countenance and profit, 
318 



Index 



691 



Seek 

through the world, 182 

you, rejoice and men will, 329 
Seeking for a fool, 137 
Seeks repentance, he who, 332 
Seem, are not what they, 222 

to be so, that but, 183 

to myself I, 417 
Seemed, death it, 81 

there to be, scarce, 154 

to be together, they have, 409 
Seeming and savour, these keep, 343 
Seemly gloves, wear, 153 
Seems infected that th' infected -spy, 
195 

love, all, 231 

so careful of the type she, 419 
Seem'st a coward, now thou, 422 
Seen, 35s 

as to be loved needs only to be, 425 

because thou art not, 444 

before, likeness hardly, 225 

be it not, 296 

his duty, he, 104 

in dreams from God, '99 

it, eye hath not, 209 

no more, World-victor 's victor will 
be, 356 

scarcely felt or, 350 

that day, or ever I had, 73 

the days that we have, 74 

the sunshine, they have never, 437 

their chips, never an axe had, 437 

things an' men, an ' I 've, 40 

think what 'e's, 301 

to be hated needs but to be, 425 

to see and not be, 355 

war's lightning flashing, I have, 431 
Seers, hoary, of ages past, 334 
Sees God in clouds, 176 

with larger, other eyes, he, 261 
Seest thou else, what, 407 
Seething brains, have such, 243 

free, when the surge was, 354 
Seine, to the sunny banks of, 332 
Seldom heard, it is so, 452 
Selected, magistrates which it had, 

59 
Self be true, to thine own, 415 

is noble song, and noble, 284 

smote the chord of, 241 

swear by thy gracious, 394 

to wean from, 233 
Self -approving, 355 
Self-defence, 356 
Self-elected saint, a, 316 
Self-esteem, that precious jewel, 42 
Selfish thoughts, on, 223 
Selfishness, 356 

too high for common, 159 
Selfless man, O, 150 
Self-love, 356 
Self-mettle tires him, 9 
Self-neglecting, not so vile a sin as, 356 
Self-poised, who stands, 250 
Sell-possessed, and calm and, 333 



Self-respect could we keep, what, 323 

erect in, 248 
Self-sacrifice, 356 
Self-same mark, put the, 249 

thing, the, 123 
Self-slaughter, canon 'gainst, 134 
Sell and mart your offices for gold, 294 

blood on the game you, 148 

half so precious as the stuff they, 426 

made ... to, 326 

my smiles, and, 409 

that thou may'st not, 158 

the mighty space, 36 

the lion 's skin, once did, 226 

the pasture now to buy the horse, 187 

us his petty conceit, 67 

with you, I will, 41 
Selleth, 356 
Selling do, if priests the, 47 

or racing the same, 187 
Sells, who, who buys, who makes, 311 

he steals, he kills for gold, 157 
Selves, an interior survey of your good, 

f 35S 

from our own, 182 

stepping-stones of their dead, 170 
Semblances, outface it with their, 394 
Semper eadem, our glorious, 17 
Senates hang upon thy tongue, while 
listening, n 

have been bought, judges and, 158 

the applause of listening, 1 1 
Senator, 356 
Send him back the . . . garland, 100 

him, I '11, 22 
Sendeth and giveth, God, 271 
Sending them ruffles, it's like, 360 
Sense, 356 

and motion, devoid of, 90 

and one for rhyme, one for, 33s 

and worth, 38 

from thought divide, 245 

hath the daintier, 70 

in a double, 318 

in Lethe steep, 98 

in which they roughen to the, 357 

of death is most in apprehension, 80 

of duty, gives from a, 7 

of mystery, a, 69 

of something lost, the quiet, 231 

of wrong, the, 419 

of your great merit, his, 405 

plain reason and with sober, 452 

spirit, taste and, 67 

think women have a sixth, 455 

though graced with polished man- 
ners and fine, 463 

want of decency is want of, 83 

where heart and soul and, 204 

your tailor is a man of, 396 
Senseless and fit man, the most, 422 

things, you worse than, 27 
Senses, affections, passions, 197 

for ever in joy, and the, 229 

in forgetfulness, steep my, 370 

it ravishes all, 452 



692 



Index 



Senses, who girt thy, 419 
Sensible, 356 

and well-bred man, 4 

to feeling as to sight, 70 

warm motion, this, 90 
Sensibility, yet wanting, 463 
Sent the gentle sleep from heaven, 

she, 369 
Sentence, comprised in the one golden, 
193 

is but a cheveril glove, a, 447 

is for open war, my, 430 

of mortal fate, changeless, 211 

sign, judges soon the, 92 
Sentiment a-kitin', knock, 309 

of respect, or the, 455 

only that I find bad, your, 397 

the atmosphere of intellect and, 387 
Sentinel stars set their watch in the 

sky, 39 
Sent'st it back to me, 99 
Separation, 356 

Sepulchre, all in one mighty, 334 
Sepulchred below, earthquake 's spoil 

is, 109 
Sequestered vale of life, 68 
Seraph's fire, no, 176 
Seraphs might despair, where, 270 
Serene and resolute and still, 333 

of heaven, breaks the, 268 
Serener light, dispense, 65 
Sergeant death, this fell, 80 
Series of trifles, life's but a, 219 
Serious drinking, set ardent in for, 
102 

in mortality, there's nothing, 270 

laughter leaves us doubly, 212 
Sermon, who will not read a, 462 
Sermons and soda-water the day after, 
444 

in stones, 3 
Serpent, 356 

cast it like a, 416 

thou, never adder stung, 412 

to have more of the, 205 
Serpent 's tooth, sharper than a, 49 
Servant, 357 

both dame and, 71 

with this clause, a, 102 
Servants of the people, 289 
Serve God, that will not, 156 

his turn, to, 218 

in heaven, than, 329 

it, and always, 392 

love and obey, bound to, 456 

my turn, what form of prayer can, 
313 

seven years, may, 434 

the Commonwealth, to, 386 

the devil in, to, 228 

thee, I'll, 124 

the hour, never sold the truth to, 
418 

'twill, 189 

who only stand and wait, they also, 
429 



Served, 357 

all, 71 

no private end, 385 

our friends, but, 89 
Serves, 357 

all who dares be true, he, 415 

mercy, whereto, 260 

take the current when it, 69 

thee best, he, 314 

theirs, when it, 218 
Serveth his maker, he, 181 

not another's will, that, 418 

still, the creatures he, 319 
Service, 357 

do more essential, 162 

done the state some, 385 

honest toil is holy, 459 

long to purchase their good will, by 
455 

now it did me yeoman's, 466 

'tis the curse of, 315 

to you evermore, in love and, 192 

weary and old with, 153 
Serviceable, you will find it, 85 
Servitor, 357 ' 

of God and Mammon, yon, 247 
Servitude, the base laws of, 350 
Set, a double, 100 

apart for business, 102 

by 't more than by your life, 42 

down aught in malice, nor, 117 

every threadbare sail, 133 

he knew how types were, 315 

herself to man, she, 273 

it down, meet it is I, 426 

it there, who. 69 

less than thou trowest, 362 

mankind, all think their little, 28 

my life, I have. 44 

my teeth nothing on edge, that 
would. 309 

round with three times eight, 73 

the feast is, 167 

the weary sun hath made a golden, 
393 

to a leg, can honour, 184 

to them, what it is, 257 

up an ordinary commonwealth, 
would, 266 

with little wilful thorns, a rosebud, 
343 
Sets all things even, time at last, 4c 7 

it light, and, 375 

off sprightly wit, 447 

when he, 393 
Setting, hath had elsewhere its, 25 

haste now to my, 122 

of boys' copies, 63 

sun, and with the, 122 

sun, signal of the, 115 
Settle, it behoves you to, 449 
Settled government, land of, 144 
Settles over all, that, 369 
Seven ages, his acts being, 383 

and pine in vain the sacred, 159 

cities warred for Homer, 183 



Index 



6 93 



Seven deadly sins in a flagon, 26 
halfpenny loaves sold, 130 
hills of yore, on thy, 342 
hundred pounds and possibilities, 
3 11 

long year, have been Tom 's food 
for, 261 

thousand years, with yesterday's. 
411 

wealthy towns contend, 183 

year, it seems the length of, 407 

years, may serve, 434 
Seventy-year clocks, our brains are, 33 
Sever, and then we, 203 

Atropos, 380 

for years, to, 296 

no more shall the war-cry, 212 

that when both must.. 377 
Several tale, brings in a, 61 

they be, though, 227 
Severe, a friend, 91 

by rule, 341 

from lively to, 162 

from pleasant to, 162 
Severed as the flax, is, 38 

now, those who are, 179 
Severn runs, the Avon to the, 441 

to the sea, the, 441 
Sew them on in a dream, 460 
Sewing at once with a double thread, 

362 
Sex, 357 

are still forgiving, 140 

assume, can either, 381 

commonly are, weeping as our, 438 

to the last, 289 

whose presence civilizes ours, 54 
Sexton, 35 7 

Time, that bald, 407 

went and told the, 22 
Shabby gentility, 171 
Shackles fall, and their, 368 
Shade, dancing in the chequered, 71 

let it sleep in the, 274 

no, no shine, 285 

of Freedom 's ensign, 'neath the, 64 

of immortality, fame is the, 124 

of Julius Cassar 's hair, the exact, 58 

of the trees, and rest under the, 333 

on it, sit under the, 131 

sleep beneath the, 370 

some boundless contiguity of, 229 

that yew-tree's, i< ~ 



variable as the, 453 
Shade-made blade, at that. 



Shades more sweetly recommend, as. 

Shadow, 3 <; 8 
a, bubble, air, 219 
and a fear, hung a, 69 
and in itself a, 124 
and shine is life, 224 
lies, in whose orbs a, 246 
life's but a walking, 411 
of a dream, a hoce beyond the, 185 
standeth God within the, 417 



Shadow 

which he treads on at noon, 392 
Shadows, 358 

are playing with the, 469 

gathered faster, while round them, 
280 

only waiting till the, 429 

reign, in the land where, 151 

that walk by us still, 2 
Shady cloister mewed, in, 56 

place, made a sunshine in the, 119 
Shaft, 358 

flew thrice, thy, 12 

that quivered in his heart, 106 

that made him die, 106 

to fledge the, 106 
Shafts from hooded eyes, 23 

of doubt, a shield against the, 120 
Shake, did the hand then of the potter, 
178 

hands and part, fit that we, 296 

hands for ever, 296 

he gave his bridle-reins a, 3 

I would not, 120 

our disposition, horridly to, 268 

the roof may, 44 

the spheres, seems to, 15s 

the world, 147 

thunder-music, rolling, 291 

thy gory locks at me, never, 229 
Shaked like a coward, 277 
Shaken, 358 

withered and, 4 

if by chance it be, 173 
Shakes off her wonted firmness, 162 

that slightly, 167 
Shakespeare, 358 

Fancy's child, sweetest, 432 

snake, that, 412 

what needs my, 29 
Shakespeare 's name, in Milton 's or in 

458 
Shaking her invincible locks, 277 
Shall be, what must be, 273 
Shallow, by, 419 

draughts intoxicate the brain, 215 
Shame, 3^8 

and hell, fell to, .57 

and hide the, 121 

and its, 416 

and share in its, 428 

beneath our feet each deed of, 170 

be thine, could, 275 

doff it for, 226 

done our ancestors no, 89 

forespent with love and, 457 

from no condition rise, honour and. 
184 

hev one glory an' one, 208 

open the door with, 96 

publishing our neighbour's, 351 

relief from future, 89 

say what it will, let, 399 

the devil, tell truth and, 417 

through glory and, 236 

to be bad, 'tis no, 16 



694 



Index 



Shame 

to hide her, 136 

were mine, that, 275 

yet start at, 123 
Shamed, 358 

Shames a scribbler, who, 353 
Shank, for shrunk, 294 
Shape, I hardly fear his terrible, 78 

a husband out of, woman could not, 
255 

but that, take any, 72 

ever straighten up this, 467 

in any mood, in any, 376 

more terrible than this, there is no, 
165 

of a camel, 56 

or in that, in this, 59 

they choose, in what, 381 

through this dread, 188 
Shaped a hero new, 179 

him, those who, 147 

whence the pen was, 301 
Shapeless earth, trampled back to, 107 
Shapes of foul disease, old, 93 

of grief, 448 
" our ends, divinity that, 94 

turns them to, 308 

was full of fiery, 277 
Shards if we offend, and broken into, 

107 
Share, if to her, 128 

in its shame, and, 428 

in the work, shall do his, 54 

in whatso we, 181 

of honour, the greater, 185 

of wine, I have drunk my, 221 

the envied kiss to, 175 

the utmost, of my desire, 100 

thy destiny, all that breathe will, 
86 

to chasten and, 153 
Shared in the plunder, he, 353 
Shares my beaker, no playmate, 146 
Shark and the sheering gull, to the, 
113 

and tiger, like the, 256 
Sharp, likes to have her religion 
rather, 329 

the greatest, 447 

thy sting is not so, 24 

to them as thorn, as, 419 
Sharper than a serpent 's tooth, 49 

wit, will find another, 447 
Shatter all his bulk, seem to, 363 

the vase, you may . . . ,258 
Shattered, dishonoured, lost for ever- 
more, 107 

when the lamp is, 209 
Shave, I never thought that they 
would, 326 

like the goat, 153 
Shaving of a baker, I see you a, 225 
Shaving-materials, who is possessed 

of, 464 
Shay, the wonderful one-hoss, 46 
She, 358 



Shear swine, all cry and no wool, 395 
Shearing, welcome to our, 343 
Shears of destiny, bear the, 86 

wi' her needle an' her, 270 

with the abhorred, 123 
Sheathed their swords for lack of argu- 
ment, 39s 
Sheaths, gladly, 317 
Shebeen shop, his mother kept a, 440 
Shed, a little, 404 

a tear in all my miseries, think to, 
399 

his blood for his country, to, 383 

if there the" meanest, 182 

one drop, dost, 134 

the honey, where'er ye, 184 

them now, prepare to, 399 

the rainbow 's glory is, 209 
Sheep, and kept, 261 

de po' los', ob de sheepfol', 359 

the rot in, 306 

to a close-shorn, 209 

worse fed than your hogs and your, 
323 
Sheepfold, 358, 359 

Sheer o'er the crystal battlements, 122 
Sheet, 359 

anchor of our peace at home, 299 

for and a shrouding, 303 

of paper, crammed up in a, 336 

that standard, 17 
Sheeting, by dealing out flannel and, 

175 
Sheets, 359 
Shelf, on every, 297 
Shell, a prettier, than ordinary, 417 

in the crust of his, 446 

is broken, the, 375 

leaving thine outgrown, 376 

shot and, 80 

take ye each a, 292 

they picked the luscious food, from 
the rough, 300 
Shell-like ear, her small and, 106 
Shells, and rainbow-colcured, 354 

the young shall peck at the, 97 
Shelter and grace of our line, 49 

for thy head, and, 182 

him with noble and right-reverend 
precedents, 92 

yields, where no bush a, 207 
Sheltered me, in youth it, 457 
Shem 's proud children reared the 

Assyrian piles, 350 
Shepherd, and Dick the, 190 

equals the king to the, 369 

tells his tale, every, 307 
Shepherd 's tongue, truth on every, 237 
Sheppards, Jack, of their city flocks, 

Sheridan, 339 

Shield thee and save thee, 9 

the soul without a, 120 
Shift, for any marketable, 265 
Shilling, 359 

refuse the, 345 



Index 



695 



Shillings, for eighteen a week, 42 
Shin in fight, when a, 216 
Shine alike to all, doth, 443 

at full or no, if the moon, 193 

by night and day, to, 245 

in more substantial honours, we'll, 
148 

is life, shadow and, 224 

my white plume, 308 

no shade, no, 285 

or rain or, 221 

that his goblet might, 153 

took lodgings for rain or, 2 1 

to bid thy morning, 10 
Shined bright and made a sunshine, 
119 

think how Bacon, 123 

upon, although it is not, 88 
Shines a good deed, 42 

one simile that solitary, 364 

over all, light of love, 235 
Shineth as the gold, al thing which 

that, 158 
Shingle, by shining, 419 
Shingles, which is played upon the, 

325 
Shining frame, a, 132 

mark, death loves a, 81 

may I not see him, 420 
Ship, 359, 360 

adrift, finds a, 102 

goes down, afore the, 320 

has weathered every rack, 43 

me somewhere east of Suez, 392 

never give up the, 58 

or cut a throat, ever scuttled, 262 

there is water to float a, 37 
Ships, 360 

and sealing-wax, of shoes and, 430 

are but boards, 359 

better thet all our, 299 

did we watch the stately, 226 

go on, the stately, 169 

hearts of oak are our, 286 

into this world we come like, 461 

new, to build, 353 

they steer their courses, like, 335 

work their passage as they do in, 176 
Shipwrecked brother, forlorn and, 138 
Shipwright or the carpenter, 164 
Shirk, don't foul and don't, 222 

his daily work, who 'd, 248 
Shirt, 360, 361 

a shroud as well as a, 362 
Shirt-sleeves, human nature in its, 188 
Shive, of a cut loaf to steal a, 435 
Shiver when thou'rt named, 162 
Shivering, sends him, 73 
Shoals of honour, 140 
Shock, intestine and furious close, 54 

of pleasure, may give a, 435 

sink beneath the, 28 

them, and we shall, 112 

will occur in a hurry and, 348 
Shocking hat, man and nature scorn 
the, 171 



Shocks of sound, with twelve great 
284 

Shoe, 361 

after, luck shall fling her old, 244 
be Spanish or neat 's leather, 20 
untied, your, 239 

Shoes, 361 

and ships and sealing-wax, of, 430 
used to call for his old, 146 

Shoe-string a careless, 364 

Shone ever, as your smile on me, 352 

Shook hands as over a vast, 409 
the hills with thunder riven, then, 

1 3 
the house, and, 388 
the world, monk who, 267 
when he laughed, 24 

Shoon, and his sandal, 57 

Shoot folly as it flies, 136 
let others, 138 

to teach the young idea how to, 398 
when the guns begin to, 410 

Shoots his thought by hidden nerves, 
he, 86 

Shop, 361 

Shopkeepers, 361 

girls sitting like, 266 

Shops of trade, in all the, 386 

Shore, and one on, 83 

apples on the Dead Sea's, 76 

a rapture on the lonely, 457 

come back from the echoless, 340 

fades, my native, 2 

his control stops with the, 288 

how many sands on the, 205 

landing on some silent, 89 

little boats should keep near, 424 

more have been wrecked on, 354 

my boat is on the, 28 

now, them unhappy folks on, 285 

of the great unknown, from the, 15 

roar of the billows on the, 19 

the despot's heel is on thy, 255 

they that saw it from the, 465 

to shore, groan from, 87 

to that far, 409 

to that unknown and silent, 158 

to the, gallantly bounding, 436 

upon the river, 3 

where is that radiant, 209 

wolf 's long howl from Oonalaska 's. 

Shores of Acheron, on the, 333 

of time, but on the, 138 

unpathed waters, undreamed, 436 
Shorn lamb, tempers the wind to the, 
209 

of being plucked and, 103 
Short, 361 

and bright, 9 

and far between, 9 

of leaves, getteth, 216 
Shortens its weapons, the race that, 
437 

not his own life, 213 
Shorter, these make the long night, 440 



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Index 



Short-weight dollar is not an honest 

dollar, 96 
Shot, 362 

and shell, stormed at with, 80 

fool 's bolt is soon, 137 

from the mouth of a cannon, 283 

the albatross, I, 5 

through the ear, 118 

through the staff, 112 
Shot-torn wreck, may sink with a, 133 
Should have been, but what he, 410 

not say it, that, 351 
Shoulder, a tap upon the, 42 

on his, and his, 71 
Shouldered his crutch and showed, 68 
Shoulders, and thrown over the, 361 

but what lights on my, 244 

do grow beneath their, 88 
Shout, 362 
Shout and revelry, midnight, 129 

and the clash and the, 136 

down all our line a deafening, 308 

that tore Hell 's concave, 46 
Shouting and confusion, understood 
the, 433 

dies, the, 139 

their emulation, 43 
Shove by justice, may, 289 
Shoved his ramrod down, and he, 38 
Shovel and tongs, sure the, 441 

and we run to the Dust, 56 

the clay in, 103 

with a dirty, 214 
Shoves you from the stage, and, 228 
Show a woman when he loves her, one 
to, 243 

contains and nourish, 118 

dances and the public, 448 

himself what he is, to let him, 401 

I never ain't had no, 330 

it, and all things, 219 

itself courageous, 68 

myself, now will I, 205 

of evil, obscures the, 213 

the most of heaven, to, 248 

the whole wealth of thy wit in an 
instant, 447 

thy lips, how, ripe in, 226 

to me, that mercy, 260 

you how, its petals kiss, I '11, 203 

you're up to fightin' tu, 299 
Showed him more, she, 277 

us the wise course to steer, 91 
Showers, chill with early, 105 

gems in sparkling, 107 

of blood, lay the summer's dust 
with, 27 

on her kings, 107 

violets pluckt the sweetest, 426 
Showest, 362 

Showeth bright, that outward, 158 
Shows but a bastard valour, 422 

his hoar leaves in the glassy 



leak in roof or flaw in right, 336 
Dot till it be struck, 13s 



Shows she rules, never, 189 

what thinks, he, 84 
Shrank, while apostles, 67 
Shreds and patches, a king of, 202 
Shrew, 362 

Shrewdly, the air bites, 5 
Shrews both short and tall, women 

are, 456 
Shriek, a solitary, 395 

wakes with a, 99 
Shrieked, and freedom, 142 

the timid, then, 408 
Shrieks, 362 

the wild sea-mew, 2 
Shrine of truth, in the pure, 269 

sought a faith 's pure, 464 
Shrink, and all the boards did, 435 

from danger, the man who does not, 
390 

from what we cannot shun, 206 

not from blasphemy, 67 

or cower, I will not, 392 

rather than in silence, 368 

with eyes that would not, 420 
Shrill and clear, the lark so, 210 
Shrills, when her whinny, 253 
Shrivelled in a fruitless fire, 160 
Shrives us, who comes and, 176 
Shroud, 362 

and rode in his, 332 

the knell, the, 401 

of snow, lay in his, 55 
Shrouding sheet, a, 303 
Shrubs, blood on your new foreign, 148 
Shudder, make thee to, 362 
Shuffled off this mortal coil, 98 
Shuffling, there is no, 289 
Shun, here he seems to, 290 

more than hell to, 61 

Scylla, when I, 353 

shrink from what we cannot, 206 

the sight, that seems to, 316 
Shunned the fire, thus have I, 131 
Shut the door, good John, 206 

thee from heaven, 376 

the Gardens, 345 

thee in, their temple walls to, 155 

thee out, their iron creeds to, 155 

the gates of mercy on mankind, 368 

the ponderous tome, he, 263 

their saddening eyes, try to, 384 

two eyes with coin- weights, 208 

up, the gates of mercy shall be all, 
260 

up our jack-knives, carved it or, 275 

your saintly ears, who, 217 
Shuts up sorrow's eye, sleep that 
sometimes, 370 

up the story of our days, 406 
Shutter, open here I flung the, 325 
Shuttered my doors with flame, I, 284 
Shutters fast, close the, 116 
Shuttle flies, how swift the, 362 
Shy of using it, he was very, 446 
Sick, 362 

at heart, and grow, 362 



Index 



697 



Sick 

at heart. I am, 57 

I 'm dead, say I 'm, 206 

man's dying sigh, a, 119 

of sickness, I'm, 363 

of time, I am, 333 

the devil was, 87 
Sicken and decay, when love begins to, 

the appetite may, 273 
Sickened and went to her bed, 326 

326 
Sicklied o'er with the pale cast, 61 
Sickly trees, gather on, 425 
Sickness, 363 

rages, and, 224 

from, and from grief, 89 
Side, a hair 'twixt south and south- 
west, 93 

and neither leans on this, 228 

and pouch on, 294 

by side, for the way was one, 220 

dares to take the, 337 

fallen from his fellow 's, 90 

feels it instantly on every, 380 

go bare, back and, 6 

of the law, keep o' the windy, 214 

on the other, 220 

that I must draw this metal from 
my, 442 

who've crossed to the farther, 339 

with Truth is noble, 34 
Side-curl, 363 

Side-door, have a front-door and a, 129 
Sides, 363 

against the panting, 345 

dough on both, 41 

laughter holding both his, 382 

that give places or pelf, on all, 62 

the leaf, writ o' both, 336 
Sidney 's sister, 180 
Siege to scorn, will laugh a, 17 
Sieve, like water through a, 414 

passed through kitchen, 349 

water in a, 64 
Sifted the wheat, th.n had, 276 

three kingdoms, God hath, 276 
Sifting out the hearts of men, he is, 415 
Sigh, 363 

and say Amen, 372 

and waft a, 216 

a sick man 's dying, 119 

a world of pride in the very, 316 

I resign, with a, 333 

learn to kiss not to, 442 

lost without a, 434 

no more, ladies, 83 

not whine nor, 233 

she looked up to, 371 

the night-winds, 2 

to, like a schoolboy, 239 

too much, a, 203 

to think, may, 192 

was all sob and, 296 
Sighed, 363 

and looked unutterable things, 230 

but they, 242 



Sighed 

or her, 416 

old Euclio said and, 91 

till woman smiled, man the hermit. 
45° , . 

upon a midnight pillow, as ever, 242 
Sighing, and farewell goes out, 438 

every minute, 56 

like a furnace, 242 

of a reed, there's music in the, 272 

that nature formed but one such 
man, 359 
Sighs, 363 

and prayers, I can hear your, 74 

and tears, a few more, 222 

for a daughter, or hear, 400 

if ye be sorry open it with, 96 

tempered with love's, 308 
Sight, 364 

at whose, 172 

charms strike the, 260 

glimmering landscape on the, 209 

half so fine a, 129 

hide it from my, 28 

how tame a, 133 

lost to, th' ecstatic lark, 210 

may at first, 361 

more, luvved 'er a vast, 241 

no, no sound, 384 

of each other, coming in, 339 

of human ties, at, 233 

of means to do ill deeds, 83 

of Proteus, have, 293 

of the bird, in vain in the, 280 

passed in music out of, 241 

that loved not at first, 242 

that seems to shun the, 316 

they loved, but at first, 242 

those far stars that come in, 466 

to feeling as to, 70 

veiled from human, 154 

when first she gleamed upon my, 
302 

when she was out of, 286 
Sightless song, the lark becomes a, 457 
Sights of death, ugly, 102 

so full of ugly, 99 
Sign, an evil, 25 

dies and makes no, 91 

no, that it was circular, 106 

shown by many a bitter, 233 

to thet with all my heart, 43 1 

your names, 275 
Signal blow, a, a shining mark, 81 

is fired, the culverin 's, 63 

of a goodly day to-morrow, 393 

of the setting sun, 115 

shown, only a, 360 

to recall him, a, 132 
Signals cannot be seen, in case, 360 
Signed, the names are, 275 
Signifying nothing, 411 
Signs and portents, more filled with, 
165 

of care, there are no, 331 

there is no believing, 239 



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Index 



Silence, 364 

all, slowly, 337 

an' all glisten; 152 

and tears, parted in, 296 

at last the clicking, 403 

darkness again and a, 360 

dissolves the spell of it, 451 

envious tongues, to, 299 

from the living, if thou withdraw in, 
86 

in the, 413 

of the centuries, after the, 147 

of the heart, the, 172 

shrink, rather than in, 368 

spreads the couch, 333 

though quite in, 204 

we parted in, 296 

ye wolves, while Ralph to Cynthia 
howls, 282 
Silenced, his scruples thus, 353 
Silent and desperate part, 61 

in a last embrace, 108 

in the grave, lies, 412 

long to be patient and, 451 

room below, in that, 55 

sea, ever burst into that, 353 

shore, to that unknown and, 158 

tents are spread, 26 
Silently steal away, 44 
Silk, 364 

no gowns of, 220 

remains, it soft as, 280 

soft for us as, 280 
Silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies, 
in 

snare, in the, 30 
Silks, littering with unfolded, 361 
Silly 'twould be, consider how, 440 
Siloam fell, the tower in, 193 
Silver, all gold and, 158 

bells, 23 

can buy, a knot that gold and, 206 

hae to spare, 364 

he left us, for a handful of, 336 

lining, turn forth her, 56 

mantle threw, her, 268 

pin, and pinned it wi' a, 231 

stars, forty flags with their, 134 

that tips with, 268 

with scutcheons of, 317 
Simile, 364 
Simon, 364 

Simonides, the good king, 133 
Simple and tame, yet, 187 

ashamed that women are so, 456 

faith than Norman blood, 148 

hearts are fresh and, 156 

one, it is a, 48 
Simplicity, 364, 365 

a child, 252 

more for that in low, 421 

sublime, in his, 43 

our weary souls dream of, 365 
Sin, 365, 366 

against the strength of youth, 
wants that, 470 



Sin 

and bile, 24 

and folly into, 136 

and guilt, each thing of, 47 

and so is, 380 

bellows blows up, 134 

by that, 7 

cherubs on its face protect me from 

the, 68 
committed while conscience slept, 

couldblight or sorrow fade, ere, 77 

even in the blossoms of my, 370 

for the good man 's, 287 

had rendered unto her, for, 369 

has many tools, 218 

have dulled their eyes with, 15s 

I cannot think it is a mortal, 393 

if to be old and merry be a, 290 

I know it is a, 323 

in their anger was a, 141 

is it, 79 

it is great, 287 

murders our youth with his sorrow 

and, 406 
no, but to be rich, 22 
of humanity, every, 172 
poking the fire all alone is a, 441 
ring out the want, the care, the, 430 
self-love ... is not so vile a, 356 
that doth goad us on to, 347 
that his favourite, 316 
that often drowns him, 101 
to covet honour, if it be a, 185 
to falter would be, 337 
to me unknown, what, 466 
to rob them of their mite, 67 
to sorrow, they say 'tis a, 374 
to swear unto a, 287 
'twad be a, 254 
unimpeachable of, 413 
weakness a, 432 

who make compromise with, 60 
Sincere, his love, 29 

never run, 403 
Sincerely so, a soul is found, 47 
Sincerity, wrought in a sad, 39 
Sines and tangents straight, resolve 

by, 6 
Sinful, 366 

act, repent each, 413 
oath, to keep a, 287 
Sing, 366 

arms and the man I, 13 

at the oven 's mouth, 66 

because I must, I do but, 226 

careless o'er my cup I, 402 

for you alone I strive to, 456 

heigh-ho and heigh-ho, 203, 254 

her song, 71 

once, and could, 367 

so like a lark, 326 

strange that death should, 273 

the dangers of the sea, 346 

the savageness, 19 

the songs he loved to hear, 101 






Index 



699 



Sing 

when you come to hear us, 304 

wherewith thou dost so heavenly, 
3°i 
Singe yourself, that it do, 136 
Singed her hair, they, 208 
Singer, sans, 103 
Singers have sung, the, 207 
Singeth a quiet tune, 37 

blithe, the milkmaid, 307 
Singing in the wilderness, 85 

out of tune, all were, 9 

with his hand, his work a, 374 
Single, 366 

blessedness, lives and dies in, 342 

bound, I '11 clear at a, 152 

church below the hill, 23 

gentlemen, like two, 150 

hair, beauty draws us with a, 168 

hair, draw you to her with a, 168 

hair pulled out, with a, 168 

instances, the wilderness of, 214 

life, that thou consum'st thyself in, 
442 

man, like a spruce, 338 

word, 'tis a, 139 
Sings at grave-making, 70 

and he sings, that he, 235 

from the organ-pipe of frailty, 273 

her own elegy, swan, 273 

in youth the heart exults and, 470 

like a soul beatified, of love, 210 

the lark at heaven's gate, 210 

to one clear harp, 170 
Sink, 366 

a navy, a load would, 278 

beneath the shock, 28 

into darkness again, 138 

not gross to, 240 

or swim, leave us yit to, 320 

to rot, should, 299 

with a shot-torn wreck, that flag 
may, 13 
Sinking in thy last long sleep, 227 
Sinks a throne, wherever, 144 

downward, whilst my gross flesh, 
270 

into the last eternal rest, he, 62 

it, and I am ready to depart, 221 
Sinned, 366 

against than sinning, more, 366 

all, 2 

a soul that has, 247 

if ye have, 96 
Sinner, made such a, 219 

too weak to be a, 435 
Sinners above all men, 193 

all, we are, 80 

commending, 347 
Sinning, 366 

is to-day official, 289 

unless when she was, 441 
Sins, 366, 367 

against this life, he, 224 

in a flagon of sack, seven deadly, 26 

in penance for her, 208 



Sins 

most, who, 400 

of thine own, should'st have few, 
449 

of will, 160 

pride is one of the seven deadly, 315 

to her Saviour, her, 351 

were invented for our, 304 

wisely from expensive, 34s 
Sip the ripe ruddy dew, 226 

would to each one, 71 
Sips the nearest draught, 232 
Sire, he, their, 181 

to son, by bleeding, 142 

the soul immortal as its, 376 

was a knight, thy, 16 
Sire's return, run to lisp their, 17s 
Sires, 367 

so lived our, 94 
Sister be, a ministering angel shall 
my, 426 

live a barren, 56 

Sidney's, 180 

Spirit, come away, 170 
Sisterly salutes to feel, but, 204 
Sister 's charms, who can love a, 400 
Sisters and friends, 129 

three, twisted by the, 127 
Sit and grin, for me to, 323 

beside my lonely fire, I, 330 

down to a quiet game for love, 234 

for Hell, might, 115 

nor, nor stand, 328 
Sits the wind, to know where, 444 
Sitting on the stile, I 'm, 387 
Six foot o' man, Ai, 249 

hundred, left of, 80 

hundred, rode the, 90 

is sounding from the chime, 115 

parts, were in, 103 

precious souls, and all agog, 72 

Richmonds in the field, there be, 33 7 

thousand ducats, every ducat in, 
103 
Sixpence, 367 

all too dear, he held them, 387 
_ if you will give me, 310 
Sixth hour, about the, 393 

sense, think women have a, 455 
Sixty smaller ones, each with, 73 
Size of pots of ale, take the, 6 
Skaith to me, nae maiden lays her, 456 
Skeptic could enquire for, whatever, 

441 
Sketch, the first rude, 13 
Skies, 367 

and points her to the, 257 

and rush into the, 316 

a scaffold to the, 317 

cloudless climes and starry, 430 

earth to the vaulted, 208 

illumed the eastern, 105 

mid the brightness of the, 378 

pointing to the, 59 

serene, and, 233 

the air, the, 293 



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Index 



Skies 

the child of the, 58 

twinkling in the, 384 

up to the, 63 

which carries a bard to the, 445 
Skill, and simple truth his utmost, 418 

an' kin's o', 212 

in surgery, honour hath no, 184 

the parson owned his, 12 

who has the power and, 450 

who thinks by force or, 450 
Skimble-skamble, 367 
Skin, 367 

of an innocent lamb, 295 

of wine, this, 12 

once did sell the lion's, 226 
Skins may differ, but affection, 3 

on scalded milk, like wrinkled, 364 
Skipper, some coasting, 99 
Skull, 367 

of a lawyer, may not that be the, 
214 

of an old mammoth, till the, 141 

weave fine cobwebs fit for, 5 7 
Skulls, they drink out of, 379 
Sky, 368 

above, the blue, 235 

a hot and copper, 63 

and in yon western, 384 

and the ocean but the, 288 

a transient meteor in the, 376 

believe that in the, 384 

bends over all, the blue, 348 

bribery 's golden, 64 

bridal of the earth and, 73 

changes when they are wives, the, 
45 7 

charm from the, 182 

clears not without a storm, so foul 
a, 388 

danced to see that banner in the, 
114 

darkness swept across the, 76 

expansive as the, 267 

freeze, thou bitter, 24 

from forth the frowning, 28 

girdled with the, 268 

guides through the boundless, 387 

nor in the, 377 

rain potatoes, let the, 3T1 

stand presently, till earth and, 391 

stars set their watch in the, 39 

that equah 176 

the droppings of the, 10 1 

to the wild, 23 

under the open, 362 

under the wide and starry, 163 

waft thy name beyond the, 125 

were close against the, 331 

with all the blue ethereal, 132 
Slain, and no be, 249 

another, ere thou hast, 180 

at thy nod were, 151 

he can never do that's, 130 

he slew the, 19 

he that is in battle, 130 



Slain, he who is in battle, 130 

if he that in the field is, 184 

the Drury Lane Dane, 115 

thinks he is slain, or if the, 368 

though he were ten times, 199 

to-day, five have I, 337 
Slam the door, 94 
Slander, 368 

and the spite, the civic, 54 
Slandered, goose, to hear thee, 304 
Slanderous, 368 

tongue, gall in the, 42 
Slanted back this brow, the hand 

that, 195 
Slap-dash into the water, 372 
Slaughter, 368 

he that made the, 41 

I condemn, to, 305 

to save themselves from, 372 
Slaughters a thousand, 83 
Slave, find neither coward nor 1 10 

I have set my life, 44 

never float over a, 133 

of the wheel of labour, 207 

oh to be a, 451 

to no sect, 278 

to thousands, has been, 275 

where'er he cowers, the, 143 

wherever groans, a, 144 

you fancied your, 144 
Slavery or death, 430 

the price of chains and, 217 
Slaves, 368 

as freemen, not, 286 

beside, all are, 144 

Britons never will be, 37 

howe'er contented, 143 

kings must have, 202 

of gold, whose sordid dealings, 58 

or cowards, sots or, 113 

the creed of, 279 
Slayer, 368 
Slays, if the red slayer thinks he, 368 

war its thousands, 431 
Sleave of care, the ravelled, 370 
Sledges with the bells, hear the, 23 
Sleek-headed men, 126 
Sleep, 369, 370 

and a forgetting, 25 

and his brother, 81 

and not his cousin, 81 

a time, though it, 28 

best of rest, 80 . 

calm and peaceful shall I, 84 

cannot still them, 403 

care-charmer, 81 

Death's twin-brother, 81 

down and, 304 

every sorrow 's lulled to, 402 

forefathers of the hamlet, 108 

in dull cold marble, 140 

in peace to, 84 

in their last, 75 

in the shade, let it, 274 

is rounded with a, 428 

like a strong man after, 277 



Index 



701 



Sleep 

like the secret, 154 

men may, 404 

might steal on me, like, 81 

of death, in that, 98 

o' nights, such as, 126 

reveals, a late-lost form that, 442 

rock me to, 340 

shall be broken, thy, 390 

shall obey me, 69 

sinking in thy last long, 227 

snuff, tobacker and, 187 

some must, 84 

still let me, 98 

than a century of, 390 

that knows not breaking, 373 

the brave who sink to rest, how, 34 

the dreamless, that lulls the dead, 
468 

the prologue to his, 100 

the sooner to, 132 

the sounder, may, 169 

the weary to, 39 

the world may, 254 

they, 163 

they all lie in uncomplaining, 21 

they softly lie and sweetly, 333 

till morn, no, 7 1 

to, perchance to dream, 98 

to wake, 337 

when he wakes, 264 

when we wake and when we, 381 

within mine inn, 413 

with nothing of regret, 62 

with thee, thy ignominy, 114 
Sleepers, and the eyes of the, 77 

waking, grumble, 44 
Sleeping, 370 

dust, benison o'er the, 157 

she is, 105 

tarn, into some, 53 

when she died, 105 

while I am, 369 

within my orchard, 4 

woods all night, 37 
Sleeps, 371 

and waiting justice, 417 

till tired he, 49 

well, he, 223 
Sleet fa' pie'cin' thin, wha'r de, 359 
Sleeve, 371 

unbuttoned, your, 239 
Sleeves, like an herald's coat without, 
361 

of lawn, 42 
Sleigh, 'tis the merry, 23 
Slept, 371 

and dreamed, 104 

dying when she, 105 

in peace, and, 185 

together, we still have, 224 

while conscience, 215 

while their companions, 177 
Slew him, I, 7 

him, then, 277 

them, and, 193 



Slew the slain, he, 19 

whose fiat millions, 332 
Slide, let the world, 463 
Slight a thing, a woman is too, 449 

my call, thou wilt not, 84 
Slights it, love, 77 

the next, who, 224 
Slings and arrows, 19 
Slip the dogs of war, let, 335 

the mongrel 's hold will, 40 
Slippery, 371 

Slits the thin-spun life, 123 
Slop, she was excellent at a, 297 
Slope to hell, half-way down the, 

316 
Sloping slowly to the west, great 

Orion, 291 
Sloth finds the down pillow hard, 437 
Slow, come he, 79 

critter, thet, 212 

growth, a plant of, 60 

length along, drags its, 6 

or the clock was too, 348 

pace at first, requires, 55 

the sun climbs, 224 
Slowly, comes a hungry people, 301 

the Bible of the race is writ, 24 

the mills of God grind, 262 
Slowly-dying power, a, 18 
Sluggard, 371 

Sluggish blood, a very river of, 133 
Slumber again, I must, 371 

at thy side, thy free proud fathers, 

beside him, longed to, 163 

in its bosom, 74 
Slumbering passions burn, when once 

their, 300 
Slumber's chain, ere, 258 
Slumbers, 371 

dead that, 222 

in a peasant 's arm, 300 

over my, 340 

roused from their, 282 

sinks back to uneasy, 99 
Sly, tough and devilish, 413 
Smack of age, some, 5 
Smacked on her cheek, that, 204 
Smacks of the field and the street, a 

preacher who, 314 
Small appear, though it, 414 

attends both great and, 123 

beer, and chronicle, 138 

beer, to desire, 22 

beer, to drink, 130 

booth, can set up a, 67 

choice in rotten apples, n 

estate, of very, 175 

habits, well pursued betimes, 167 

Latin and less Greek, 211 

or his deserts are, 126 

praise, were no, 312 

too, for any marketable shift, 265 

when I was very, 331 

yet they grind exceeding, 262 
Smaller still, and these have, 134 



702 



Index 



Smart, 371 

human sorrow and, 116 

love and all its, 232 

of all the girls that are so, 6 

will weep a bramble 's, 398 

young folks are, 469 
Smarting in lingering pickle, 439 
Smarts so little, no creature, 137 
Smashing it, hatching the egg than 

by, 108 
Smell, 371 

a rat, I, 325 

as sweet, would, 275 

false Latin, I, 211 

of bread and butter, 34 

of roses, she hates the, 343 

of sweet herbs, the, 151 

onions, mine eyes, 438 

sweet and blossom in their dust, 199 

the blood of a British man, 27 

to turf, to, 269 
Smells, grows and, 100 

of Hollands gin, when you find he, 

to heaven, it, 272 
Smile, 371 

a great man 's, 42 

and be a villain, one may, 426 

and we smile, 141 

at the claims, 148 

beguile with a dimple or, 398 

calm thou mayst, 227 

frown and we, 141 

he smiled a kind of sickly, 350 

on thee to-morrow, sunburst may, 
186 

on ye sweet, I'd, 352 

so many, 38 

sweet as your, 352 

that no cloud can o'ercast, 31 

the traitor's, 384 

to those who hate, a, 363 

we shall, 125 

upon his finger's ends, 359 

yet I, 74 
Smiled as he sat by the table, 371 

if wrong, I, 67 

on us, right graciously he, 308 

sighed till woman, 450 

while all around thee, 227 
Smiles around, cannot go where uni- 
versal love not, 43 

as we draw nigh, that, 219 

at the drawn dagger, 191 

beaming all o'er with your, 116 

becks and wreathed, 196 

in yeer face, that, 212 

not in a house of tears, Venus, 424 

the, the tears, 258 

welcome ever, 438 
Smile-smoothing, heart-opening, 397 
Smiling cheek, a villain with a, 1 1 
Smilingly, drink it down right, 78 
Smitest, 372 

Smithate of truth, the, 416 
Smithy-shop after every roll, 54 



Smitten, hath hope been, 391 
Smock, with her dirty, 410 
Smoke and stir, above the, 107 

but a good cigar 's a, 53 

cannot, but the, 302 

concealed, in yon, 391 

had wafted, 408 

I, but do not burn, 339 
Smoke-stack white as snow, 215 
Smoky, 372 
Smooth and even, all would go, 140 

runs the water, 43 s 

the careworn brow, to, 297 

the few silver threads, 340 

the ice, to, 152 
Smoothed his wrinkled front, 432 
Smoothing its dilapidated castor, 171 
Smoothness and softness, 349 

rough, that turns earth's, 328 

that may give it, 379 
Smooth-shaven green, on the dry, 165 
Smote on all the chords with might, 
241 

the rock of the national resources, 
340 

the warden hoar, 87 
Smutch appears, an ugly, 36 
Snaffle of courtship, pleasant the, 253 
Snagsby's, wos a-prayin' wunst at 

Mr., 314 
Snail, creeping like, 352 

or move like the, 446 
Snails, like, 129 
Snake, 372 

like a wounded, 6 
Snakes, 372 
Snapper-tip, 372 
Snare and scourge of hell, the, 157 

in the silken, 30 

the twisted tendril as a, 69 
Snatches from the sun, she, 402 
Sneaking off, it is, 423 
Sneaks to death, the coward, 66 
Sneer, 372 

teach the rest to, 71 

the self-complacent British, 225 

with solemn, 66 

yesterday 's, 442 
Sneering and without, 71 
Sniffed the battle from afar, he, 386 
Snooze, cotched a vild beast in a, 200 
Snore upon the ' flint, weariness can, 

437 
Snort to the rem, 387 
Snow, 372 

all bloodless lay the untrodden, 225 

and the bosom of, 246 

as pure as, 42 

chaste as unsunned, 47 

crotch-deep in the, 313 

her eyes are sapphires set in, 118 

lay in his shroud of, 55 

naked in December, 191 

on field an' hill, 152 

pale and white and cold as, 74 

she is not afraid of the, 451 



Index 



703 



Snow 

smoke-stack white as, 215 
that whiter skin of hers than, 367 
the maid with a bosom of, 246 
time dissolve the winter, 233 
wash it white as, 169 
when it's thaw, like, 215 
your locks are like the, 311 

Snowdrop, love's first, 203 

Snow-flakes, 372 
fall, as, 144 

Snowhid in Jenooary, 323 

Snows, and upon the crumping, 207 
as any mountain of its, 285 
are my robe, the, 284 
begin, when the, 78 
may o'er his head be flung, 123 
of yester-year, where are the, 468 
said our Lady of the, 276 

Snow-white crest, behind the, 179 
wand, or, 149 

Snuff of younger spirits, 228 
tobacker and sleep, 187 

Snuff-box, and fill his, 360 

Snug little island, it's a, 194 

So said I, He said and, 62 

Soap, 372 

hundreds will subscribe for, 38 

Soar again, through rolling clouds to, 
106 
in fame, wade in wealth or, 104 
so high, wherewith he wont to, 106 
when we stoop than when we, 445 

Soars enraptured, he, 233 

Sob and sigh, our parting was all, 296 

Sober, 372 

critic come abroad, some more, 67 
found, nothing in nature's, 101 
it would be to keep me, 387 
livery, in her, 116 
once drunk and once, 82 
side, always err upon the, 396 
thinking, hence with all your, 10 1 
wishes never learned to stray, 68 

Sobers us again, drinking largely, 215 

Sobriety's daughter, that grief was, 
308 

sobs, was lost in a tempest of, 389 

Society of mutual admiration, a, 3 
where none intrudes, there is, 457 
solitude sometimes is best, 373 

Socket, burn to the, 91 

Sod, and fill the burial, 177 
beneath the burial, 114 
beneath the churchyard, 108 
better rot beneath the, 213 
builds on the watery, 156 
dread ye not the cold, 5 
fall upon the, 144 
remote upon the simple, 312 
the marsh-grass sends into the, 156 

Soda-water, sermons and, the day 
after, 444 

Sofa round, wheel the, 116 

Soft and low, her breathing, 36 
making the nettle danger, 280 



Soft the music of those village bells, 5 2 

as silk remains, it, 280 

as the roses they twine, virgins are, 
426 

as young, 20 

gentle and low, ever, 428 
Soften rocks or bend a knotted oak, 

to, 272 
Softly as foot can fall, go as, 407 

death succeeded life, so, 105 
Softness of their sex is lost, the win- 
ning, 357 

smoothness and, 349 
Soil, free, 142 

from the cursed, 403 

has no right on English, 409 

may best deserve the precious bane, 
that, 336 

new birth of our new, 8 

where first they trod, the, 464 

with Freedom 's, 17 
Soiled with all ignoble use, 150 

truth is as impossible to be, 417 
Soiling, 373 

Solace is to know, all my, 328 
Solar beam, from the, 10 1 

system, the hub of the, 188 
Sold, are all things, 177 

bought and, 157 

is bought and, 2 7 

spoils were fairly, 341 

the feast is, 129 

their fortunes, have, 141 

the manhood never bought nor, 185 

the pattern is, 211 

the truth to serve the hour, never, 
418 

were never to be, 158 
Soldier, 373 

be abroad, let the, 352 

brave enough, this is the, 432 

come you back, you British, 252 

drink, let a, 100 

knew, not though the, 90 

the broken, 68 

which in the, 43 
Soldier 's a man, a, 100 

cheek, something upon the, 312 

mien, a, 403 

our, were brave, 22 

pleasure, drinking is the, 16 

the courtier's, scholar's, 263 

wild halloo, the, 181 
Soldiers, 373 

firm, keep the, 104 
Soldiership, is all his, 382 
Sole of his foot, to the, 196 
Solemn creed, sapping a, 66 

round, with, 26 

thing, language is a, 210 

thought, what a world of, 410 

way, in such a, 420 
Solemnized, the day it is, 407 
Soles, onions, garlic, 32 
Solid core of heat, to make a, 230 
flesh, this too too, 134 



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Index 



Solid man of Boston, 32 

men of Boston, 32 
Solitary shines, one simile that, 364 

woes, rare are, 448 
Solitude, 373 

have broken me, grief and, 32 

locks, bars and, 318 

of peace, the strange, white, 369 
Solitudes, millions in those, 75 
Solve a learned doubt, to, 433 

you any problem given, he '11, 467 
Sombre harness mailed, in, 87 
Some must follow, and some com- 
mand, 55 

must watch, while some must sleep, 
84 

of us will smart for it, 371 

people are more nice than wise, 281 

people to get out of a room, hard 
for, 212 

said It might do good, 317 

weep because they part, 29s 
Somebody, 373 

else, better off than, 401 
Something in me dangerous, 71 

lost, the quiet sense of, 231 

tells me, there 's, 238 

'tis, 275 _ 

to do, children with, 67 

upon the soldier's cheek, 312 
Somewhere or other, 373 
Son, 374 

Athena 's wisest, 206 

by bleeding sire to, 142 

love you my, 237 

nor, nor wife, 341 

Absalom, my, 1 

of Adam and of Eve, the, 317 
of a woman, and yet the, 295 
of his own works, the, 461 
of man, some proud, 410 
of the sable Night, Sleep, 81 
this is England's greatest, 167 
Song, 374 

Alexandrine ends the, 6 

and noble self is noble, 284 

as though it were the burthen of a, 

400 
be clear and strong, though the, 248 
concludes her noblest, 104 
he had to write his, 317 

1 can suck melancholy out of a, 257 
is on my lips, to-day a, 360 

I troll out for Christmas stout, 5 1 

let satire be my, 350 

many people read a, 462 

no German, 151 

of birds, I love the, 235 

01 Hiawatha, this, 156 

of the shirt, he sang the, 361 

of the shirt, she sang this, 361 

raised some serious, 91 

rose the, 340 

sans, 103 

shall be, still all my, 278 

sunshine and of, 74 



Song 

the burst of happy, 23 

the lark becomes a sightless, 457 

the long reaches of the peaks of, 207 

we '11 sing one, 200 

who loves not wine, woman and, 444 

would sing her, 7 1 
Songful, soulful, sorrowful Ireland, 

194 
Songs, 374 

he loved to hear, 101 

of joy, its deep, 209 

were full of joy, my, 148 

your gambols, your, 468 
Sonorous, clear and, 52 
Sons, 374 

are things, God 's, 459 

attain the praise, few, 367 

no doubt, our wiser, 137 

of darkness, villains and the, 417 

of heaven, things are the, 459 

of men, in the weak and friendless, 
466 

of the waves, so free as the, 286 
Soon shall be, not mad but, 244 

or late, death cometh, 89 
Sooner it's over, the, 132 

the chiney's mended, the, 260 
Soonest mended, little said is, 260 
Soothe a savage breast, music hath 
charms to, 272 

her melancholy, 136 

or flattery, 421 

or wound a heart that's broken, 358 
Soothed with the sound, 19 
Soothing chime, when last I heard 

their, 23 
Sophist ever writ, or, 367 
Sophisters, economists and calcula- 
tors, 50 
Sophistry, destroy his fib or, 353 
Sordid dealings, whose, 58 
Sore, 374 

critics who themselves are, 67 

thy feet are weary and, 162 
Sorely charged, the heart is, 363 
Sorest, the old wound if stricken is the, 

290 
Sorrow, 374, 375 

a bitter, .38 

and death may not enter, 209 

and earth 's woe, to endure life's, 242 

and sin, murders our youth with his, 
406 

and smart, human, 116 

a rooted, 263 

concealed, like an oven stopped, 298 

could be won by gifts, 10 

darkens hamlet and hall, 271 

done, tales of, 68 

enter, didst thou in, 377 

fade, ere sin could blight or, 77 

I see with, 324 

is in vaine, thy, 426 

laden, this soul with, 246 

learn, love and joy and, 48 



Index 



70s 



Sorrow 

no more of idle, 48 

on the bosom, 164 

parting is such sweet, 296 

returned with the dawning, 98 

stirred, every note with, 340 

strewing, all my life with, 458 

that should water this, 398 

the fear and the, 109 

the painting of a, 11S 

the pang of, 390 

there, there's nae, 215 

this strife and, 94 

to this, 296 

touched with joy, they bring me, 
470 

weep and wrestle with our, 155 

we spoke not a word of, 312 

words, give, 165 
Sorrowing face, one, 219 

goeth a, 3 1 

toiling, rejoicing, 410 
Sorrow's eye, shuts up, 370 

heavy hand, 175 

lulled to sleep, every, 402 
Sorrows, 375 

and darkness, 163 

brewed with her, 399 

see in thy chastening. 341 
Sorry for, that I shall 1 

if ye be, 96 

trade, oh, the, 82 
Sort of men, there are 

of thing, free-will and that, 330 
Sorting and puzzling with a deal of 

glee, 1 
Sot, but their prize a, 462 
Sots, what can ennoble, 113 
Soudan, Fuzzy- Wuzzy at your 'ome 

in the, 147 
Sought for her, 416 

her, has yielded to the first that, 428 

in vain, they never, 230 

is good, love, 240 

the Lord aright, that, 230 

the storms, he. 304 

the remedy, but they, 242 

they thus afar, what, 464 

unknowing what he, 440 
Soul, 375-377 

a glory circling round the, 233 

a kind of men so loose in, 371 

alive, the most offending, 185 

a mouse of any, 271 

and body, his, 273 

and for my, 223 

and heart, 'tis, 248 

and sense, where heart and, 204 

an evil, producing holy witness, 11 

arise O, 126 

a star before the darkened, 384 

awakes, and the, 77 

away, the Spaniard cast his, 157 

beatified, sings like a, 210 

below, the wrong that pains my, 1 60 

but merit wins the, 260 



3i5 



291 



Soul 

contrive, nor let thy, 270 

cordial to the, 269 

could force his, 307 

does life, as the, 415 

Earth 's biggest country 's gut her, 

277 
employ all the heart and the, 229 
enchanted, lived the, 374 
feast of reason and the flow of, 327 
from the soul, dissever my, 236 
froze the genial current of the, 301 
goes out on the east wind, but a, 1 13 
got ashore, till the last, 329 
grapple them to thy, 146 
he 'd turned his fleeting, 349 
he had on earth, 176 
I am the captain of my, 126 
I arm, my, 311 
I loafe and invite my, 229 
I must be measured by my, 263 
in agony, mirth cannot move a, 264 
in body and in, 237 
is dead, for the, 222 
is found sincerely so, 47 
is pure and strong, whose, 390 
I steep, when my thirsty, 402 
is with the saints I trust, 29 
knew which, not a, 418 
lends, how prodigal, 429 
lies in the doing, joy 's, 198 
many a, 232 

may pierce, such as the meeting, 394 
meet the sunrise of the, 324 
mount, mount, my, 270 
my, happy friends, 116 
navigation 's, 60 
never was in my, 116 
no foreign foe could quell thy, 112 
none better in my kingdom, 438 
of decent wit, 152 
of goodness, some, 160 
of harmony, hidden, 170 
of Judas Iscariot, 'twas the, 194 
of man, except the, 357 
of music shed, the, 170 
of the foaming grape, 344 
of the law, reason is the, 327 
of the organ, which came from the, 

of wit, the, 36 

oh! then, my, 94 

once inflamed my, 20 

perdition catch my, 239 

pliant, found a rare, 244 

reclaim thy lost, 358 

relies, the parting, 35 

rot asleep, lets your, 144 

secured in her existence, 191 

should tend the, 279 

signs and portents for the, 165 

sincere, of, 385 

sing a dirge for St. Hugh's, 32 

so dead, 65 

tell me, my, 79 

that can render, the, 127 



706 



Index 



Soul 

that flattering unction to your, 419 

that has sinned, like a, 247 

that I must draw, it grieves my, 442 

that loving, 378 

that rises with us, 25 

that slid into my, 369 

that wings the, 257 

the, uneasy and confined from 
home, 186 

the before unconceived, unconceiv- 
able, 308 

the palace of the, 367 

the poor, will die, 287 

the tocsin of the, 92 

the weary, 221 

thrills the fond, 236 

through my lips, my whole, 204 

to cheer his, 182 

to God in after-days, raise this, 293 

to keep, pray the Lord my, 370 

Tommy, 'ow's yer, 180 

to-night for me, question thy, 127 

to save, where woman has never a, 



to take, I pray the Lord my, 370 

unbowed, with, 115 

was not spoken of the, 222 

were fled, as if that. 1 70 

whose youth is in his, 470 

with his own, 114 

within him climb, feels the, 143 

without a shield, the, 120 

with sorrow laden, tell this, 246 

working out her, 54 

would harrow up thy, 380 
Soul-bound friend, as it does for a, 173 
Soul's in arms, my, 12 

sincere desire, prayer is the, 313 

tasking, with a whole, 177 
Souls, 378 

at home, and our, 108 

beyond the reaches of our, 268 

closely wedged, with their, 446 

draw, breath which our, 76 

dreams affright our, 99 

for whom this hungry war, the poor, 
432 

from getting rusty, to keep our, 34s 

in the cure of, 347 

jealous, will not be answered so, 195 

keep his memory green in our, 274 

of Christian, 354 

of men, this restless craving in the, 
46 

our weary, dream of simplicity, 365 

poison to men's, 158 

six precious, 72 

the immediate jewel of their, 275 

the mightiest plea for erring, 313 

the two or three high, 466 

they have no, 64 

to fright the, 432 

to save, our sinful, 345 

two, with but a single thought, 224 



Souls 

we that have free, 195 

which God is calling sunward, 439 

who looks on erring, 52 
Soul-sides, boasts two, 243 
Sound, 378 

and foam, too full for, 18 

and fury, full of, 411 

and hears no, 74 

as a bell, heart as, 174 

as if I 'd paid a note, 371 

I heard, all the, 173 

in his hand, the, 183 

like the sweet, 273 

my barbaric yawp, I, 468 

no sight, no, 384 

of a great Amen, like the, 51 

of a kiss, the, 203 

of a voice that is still, 169 

of battle, is the blended, 461 

of cheerful bells just undulates, 52. 

of revelry, there was a, 334 

of the church-going bell, 22 

save the rush of the river, no, 311 

shut between me and the, 52 

soothed with the, 19 

strikes, a deep, 334 

the gospel 's, 161 

the loud timbrel o'er Egypt 's dark 
sea, 405 

there was another heavy, 76 

to heal the blows of, 364 

with twelve great shocks of, 284 
Sounded all the depths, 140 

forth the trumpet, he has, 415 
Sounder, may sleep the, 169 
Sounds as if it should be writ, 210 

of village bells, 52 

the voice of a good woman, sweetly, 
452 
Soup gets cold, 211 

or broth, or brew, 32 
Soupcon, a magic, 349 
Sour, are hard and, 175 

my cask ran, 57 

offence, is a, 346 
Source of all his pain and woe, 283 

of human offspring, true, 437 
Sources, from distant and separate, 
339 • 

one of the most fatal, 422 
Soured on me, all hope, 313 
Sourest rind, sweetest nut hath, 286 
Sours ripe grapes, 118 
South and southwest side, 'twixt, 93 

breathe of the sweet, 210 

like the sweet, 273 

turning his face to the dew-dropping, 
444 

wind that toots his horn, O blest, 
132 
Southerly, when the wind is, 245 
Southrons, hear your country, 94 
Southwest side, 'twixt south and, 93 
Sovereign alchemist, the, 162 

lord the king, our, 202 



Index 



707 



Sovereign reason, that noble and most, 
327 

thy, thy head, 189 
Sovereignty, grander than, 80 

of nature, takes it by, 278 

of their own, 276 
Sow, 378 

as you, y 're like to reap, 230 

many labourers must be content to, 
460 

seed, but let no tyrant reap, 355 

the seed ye, 355 
Sowed no seed, by him that, 460 
Space of our large honours, 36 

there is limitless, 178 

this, was thought 's mysterious seat, 
367 
Spacious firmament on high, 132 
Spade, a pickaxe and a, 303 

laid them flat with a, 77 

on his earth- worn, 357 

with the poor crooked scythe and, 
103 
Spades, the emblem of untimely 

graves, 88 
Spake again, to eyes that, 334 

methinks an angel, 9 

my brother, there, 37 
Spain, England, Germany or, 135 

the stoutest hearts of, in 
Span, a life 's but a, 100 

and Eve, 149 

dwindled to the shortest, 375 

grasp the ocean with my, 263 

life is but a, 429 

the life of man less than a, 461 

yet not to earth 's contracted, 463 
Spaniard cast his soul away, the, 157 
Spanish or neat 's leather, a shoe be, 

20 
Spanish sailors with bearded lips, 360 
Spaniel, 378 
Spare my guiltless wife, 15 

not your labour, 207 

siller hae to, 364 

that tree, woodman, 457 

the beechen tree, 457 

the rod, then, 232 

us yet, 139 
Spared neither land nor gold, 341 

a better man, I could have better, 
250 
Spares the child, and never, 341 

the rod, and, 341 
Spark, each light gay meteor of a, 410 

of fire, the sun is but a, 376 

of heavenly flame, vital, 428 

of that immortal fire, a, 233 

of vital flame, this fluttering, 428 

shows a hasty, 209 

to the powder, proved as a, 389 
Sparked it with full twenty gals, he'd, 

363 
Sparkle still the right Promethean 
fire, 118 

to the highest top, 116 



Sparkled, 378 

for Helen, the cordial that, 100 

Sparkles near the brim, but, 220 

Sparkling showers, gems in, 107 

Sparks, living, we still discern, 4 
of nature, hard ... to hide the, 
278 

Sparrow fall, or a, 38 

falls, forgetting that even, 177 
part, to see her, 398 
providence in the fall of a, 320 
providently caters for the, 326 

Sparrow 's fall, dost mark the, 84 

Sparrows, five, sold for two farthings, 
320 
two, sold for a farthing, 320 

Spawn of hell, slander meanest, 368 

Speak, 379 

all the lip can, 172 

and look back, 307 

and purpose not, art to, 321 

by the card, 43 

each other in passing, and, 360 

ere the feverish lip can, 293 

for yourself, why do n't you, 469 

Greek, 'tis known he could, 165 

if the lion be to, 14 

less than thou knowest, 362 

love, speak low if you, 239 

more in a minute, will, 396 

more or less than truth, 417 

one simple word, better far it is to, 

466 
preach, for this men write, 123 
the grief that does not, 165 
the heart must, 174 
the speech, I pray you, 379 
the tongue, 412 
well did'st thou, 206 
when I think, I must, 453 
who fear to, 368 
with most miraculous organ, will, 

272 
your sentiment, that you, 397 

Speaker, and some before the, 146 

Speakest, than howsoe'er thou, 39s 

Speaking in deeds, 84 

to hiss elf, sounded as if he wos a-, 
314 

Speaking-trump of future fame, the, 
274 

Speaks, his tongue, 174 

Spear, the shattered, 142 

Spears are uplifted, the, 387 
in rest, a thousand, 17,9 

Special wonder, without our, 56 

Specify, do not forget to, 13 

Speck of life, this, 222 
or little pitted, 337 
nor stain, 268 

Spectacle on nose, with, 294 

Spectator, the tame, 265 

Spectators, gave pleasure to the, 321 

Spectral host, the cry of that, 151 

Spectre addressed Imogene, while the, 
463 



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Index 



Spectre Conscience, shrieking through 

the gloom, 61 
Spectres, 379 

rise, the grisly, 282 
Speculation, 379 

thou hast no, 29 
Speech, 379, 380 

every, a jest, 147 

free, 142 

the moist impediments unto my, 
399 

thought is deeper than all, 403 
Speeches, leave it to men's charitable, 

258 
Speechless creature dead, 38 
Speed, and yet for, 66 

be wise with, 137 

of my desire, in the, 86 

the going guest, 167 

the parting guest, 167 

the soft intercourse, 216 

with impetuous, 271 
Spell awoke within me, that, 274 

in its every drop, there's a, 100 

inspired the silent toil, what, 409 

of enchantment, 'tis no, 72 

of its silence, dissolves the, 451 

would ye learn the, 12 
Spells around him flung, 283 

by, this one, an' then thet, 363 

but scans and, 458 
Spend another such a night, 99 

it, who knows not how to, 319 

I 've a guinea I can, 167 

my malice in my breath, 402 

what we yet may, 103 
Spending all her fires, 377 

we lay waste our powers, getting 
and, 463 
Spendthrift is he of his tongue, what 

a, 412 
Spent amang the lasses, 165 

and maimed among, the, 290 

in vain, seldom, 105 

its novel force, his passion shall 
have, 297 
Sohere, all quit their, 316 

not in his, 384 

pledge of a lower, 179 

the fitting of self to its, 333 
Spheres, earth is but an echo of the, 272 

music of the, 272 

seems to shake the, 155 

start from their, 380 
Spice of life, variety 's the very, 423 
Soicy nut-br6wn ale, 6 
Spider, 380 

painter plays the, 168 
Spies, they come not single, 375 
Spiked and panelled door, no, 31 
Spills another, that, 27 
Spilt on the ground like water, 173 
Spin, 380 

all hypocrisy, 393 

I, I weave, 386 

on blindly in the dark, 439 



Spindle, layeth her hand to the, 451 
Spins the slight, self-pleasing thread, 

he, 353 
Spinster, more than a, 382 
Spire, from which the sound, 52 

send the psalm up in the, 244 
Spires and turrets crowned, with, 385 
Spirit, 380, 381 

all compact of fire, love is a, 240 

and a busy heart, a great, 220 

and it lay on my fevered, 374 

and unwearied, 145 

an unquestionable, 239 

calms, so much the, 344 

come away, 170 

daunted, mystery the, 69 

doth raise, the clear, 123 | 

doubting in his abject, 34 

fell, ere my fainting, 439 

for my minister, one fair, 85 

from mine eyes, I could weep my, 
438 

full, once of ethereal, 367 

God is a, 154 

grieves, the, 215 

haunted, here dwelt the, 374 

life-blood of a master, 30 

like a blight over thy, 362 

meet and mingle, in one, 366 

Mrs. Partington's, was up, 297 

of judgment, some shallow, 213 

of kin to God by his, 248 

of man is divine, all save the, 426 

of mortal, the, 269 

of murder works, the, 35 

of my dream, o'er the, 98 

of the glass and scythe, fierce, 405 

of wine, O thou invisible, 44s 

out of the deep, 18 

passed, ere the, 284 

stands answerable, how his, 298 

still and bright, and yet a, 454 

taste, and sense, 67 

the accusing, which flew up to 
heaven's chancery, 287 

the delighted, 90 

the immortal, in the skies may 
bloom, 377 

the motions of the, 273 

through which the, 140 

turns to thee, 125 
Spirit-level, that pure, 115 
Spirit's utter loneliness, my, 230 

yearning cry, 88 
Spirits, 381 

congenial, part to meet again, 60 

may be in good, 197 

of great events stride on, 358 

of your fathers, the, 288 

rushed together, and our, 226 

the snuff of younger, 228 

to the father of, 298 

walk, and, 352 

were all, 428 

who wait, like outcast, 292 
Spirit-stirring drum, the, 125 






Index 



709 



Spiritual, 381 

pinder, that, 52 
Spit and sputter all, and, 210 

in my face, 218 

upon my Jewish gaberdine, 147 
Spite, as if they worshipped God for, 
302 

of all the virtue, in, 85 

the civic slander and the, 54 

the world, reckless what I do to, 328 
Spleen, 382 

Splendid shilling, retains a, 359 
Splendidly null, 128 
Splendour, 382 

of God, by the, 156 

of the fight, who knows the, 390 
Splendours, the parlour, 29s 
Splenitive and rash, 7 r 
Splinters, and break his heart in, 317 
Split the ears of the groundlings, to, 
379 

you, though it do, 382 
Spoil, an earthquake's, 109 

it, we should only, 323 

like bales unopened, 404 

of me, hath been the, 60 

the child, and, 232 

we lost, and the, 451 
Spoiler's head, curses on the, 157 
Spoils of Mexico, the richest, in 

of office, whom the, 259 

of time, rich with the, 406 

of war, the, 464 

the child, he never, 341 

the pleasure of the time, it, 307 

the rod, but, 341 

treasons, stratagems, and, 273 

were fairly sold, 341 
Spoke, 382 

'em, when with hasty noise he, 458 

in number more than ever women, 
429 

in virtue's cause it, 411 

to a nation, a nation, 276 
Spoken, I hear thy name, 428 

of the soul, was not, 222 

when the lips have, 209 
Spontaneous, what was good was, 261 
Spontaneously to God, 279 
Spoon, add a single, 349 

must have a long, 87 

who stole a thimble or a, 306 

with oil, four times the, 349 
Spoons, let us count our, 425 
Sport, 382 

is stale, all the, 290 

to have the enginer, no 
Sported his eyes and his temple about, 

463 
Sports, my joy of youthful, 288 

your, and your wiles, 116 
Spot, 382 

and every loved, 49 

beauteous visions filled this, 367 

is cursed, the 69 

of earth be found, that, 182 



Spot 

on his peculiar, 306 

stir of this dim, 107 

of ground, to grow upon a, 162 

though 'tis but a little, 113 

thy home, and that, 182 

where I made one, 152 
Spotless and fair, too, 153 
Spots quadrangular of diamond form, 

88 
Spouse, I will have no Maggie for, 339 

took the Daughter of the Vine to, 
426 
Spout out, jealous doubt, 115 
Spouted, where the wallowing monster, 

354 
Sprang up like weeds, little cares, 450 
Spray, and cold as the, 386 

in thy playful, 73 

lurching through the, 54 

of Western pine, this, 304 
Spread abroad, Wickliffe 's dust shall, 
441 

a horse-laugh through the pews, 212 

not good except it be, 266 

the thin oar, 278 

twelve hundred million men are, 75 
Spreadeth wide, which, 380 
Spreading, till by broad, 53 
Spreads, and still another, 53 

his light wings, 233 
Sprightlier age, before a, 228 
Spring, 382 

and summer, for winter, 20 

a plenteous seed, shall, 441 

as the tiger's, 455 

each, 172 

earth has no unpolluted, 403 

ever sence one night last, 330 

from ABC, can only, 1 

in the, 241 

I would change life 's, 409 

love's pure congenial, 232 

of day, in the, 161 

of love gushed, 27 

of love, how this, 240 

pining for the, 34.3 

supplies, the following, 250 
Springes, with hairy, 168 
Springs eternal, hope, 186 

the hearse has no, 298 

will take, as far as, 173 
Spring-time, 382 
Sprite, every one lets forth his, 282 

of the blood-avenging, 28 

the fierce avenging, 15 
Sprung upon its feet, and it, 340 
Spur, fame is the, 123 

on and fight it out, 383 
Spurn me, strike me, 378 
Spurned, and worships what it, 25s 

by the young, 157 
Spurns that patient merit, 323 
Spurs are striking deep, a thousand, 

179 
Spurt, for just a single, 186 



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Index 



Sputter all, spit and, 210 

Spy out such a quarrel, would, 322 

seems infected that th' infected, 195 
Squadron, 382 

the mustering, 271 
Squadrons, come like thick-plumed, 

436 
Squalls, caterwauls, 44 
Squander time, then do not, 407 
Squandered, doled, stolen, borrowed, 

iS7 
Square, 383 

and we parted on the, 217 

certain that the earth was, 106 

for you broke a British, 147 

of comfortable light, 25 
Square Deal, 383 
Square-turned joints, his, 46 
Squat like a toad, 408 

on her safety-valve, a nigger, 346 
Squatting on the coals, 'e'll be, 39s 
Squeak, as naturally as pigs, 165 
Squeezing, 383 

out the sea-water, 296 
Squints the eye, 13 s 
Squired 'em, he'd, 363 
Stabbed with a white wench's, 118 
Stable, a good horse in the, 303 
Staff, 383 

a bending, I would not break, 120 

his cockle hat and, 57 

hope is a lover 's, 186 

of life, bread is the, 35 

or the halyard, 112 
Stage, 383 

amuse his riper, 49 

and shoves you from the, 228 

his hour upon the, 411 

not, but real, 325 

the poor, degraded, 278 

the veteran on the, 424 

where every man must play a part, 
a, 463 
Stage-play, here he quotes a, 383 
Stages, in our later, 224 

where'er his, 192 
Stain, nor cloud, nor speck, 268 

what looks to thy dim eyes a, 198 
Stainless gentleman, and, 150 
Stains of her, not of the, 454 

of powder, washed off the, 312 
Stair, as he comes up the, 138 

rising to great place is by a winding, 
30s 

the old clock on the, 55 
Stairs, have they made a pair of, 242 

up, and doon stairs, 443 
Stake, honour's at the, 164 

like Cranmer's at the, 169 

my reputation is at, 332 

that man can have at, 143 
Stale, all the sport is, 290 

flat and unprofitable, how weary, 
463 

proverb never, 126 
Stalk had left the rose, I on its, 342 



Stalk, left on its, 342 

Stallion shod with fire, on a, 86 

Stamboul, magnificent in, 408 

Stammer, 383 

Stamp, but the guinea 's, 249 

of nature, change the, 421 

on us in an hour, misery puts a new 
264 

the marriage bond divine, to, 442 

them on the running stream, 450 
Stamped with the image, now, 157 
Stamps in vain, 207 
Stand, 383 

and see, while you can, 131 

and wait, who only, 429 

a- tiptoe when this day is named, 66 

at the door and knock, I, 96 

back to back in God's name, 131 

by uniting we, 420 

by your colours, my friend, 58 

for judgment, I, 213 

for your own, 292 

in the prince's name, 422 

let this holly, 181 

nor sit nor, 328 

on either hand, who will, 37 

or fall, they must, 202 

let the old oak, 398 

presently at God 's great judgment 
seat, 391 

they could not, 183 

to in a month, than he will, 396 

to doubt, never, 14 

to your glasses, 91 

united we, 420 

upon its own bottom, must, 418 

up, that Nature might, 250 

we take our, 94 

while on ourselves we, 353 
Standard, 383 

of the man, the mind's the, 263 

sheet, 17 

to be found a British, 37 

up with our, 143 
Standard-bearer fall, if my, 308 
Standeth God within the shadow, 417 
Standing upon the vantage-ground of 
truth, 415 

with reluctant feet, 246 
Stands above me, Death, 78 

and to the last of earth his furrow, 
79 

as if it, 190 

as never it stood, except winde, 
444 

a very pretty quarrel as it, 323 

in his pride alone, who, 286 

still withal, who he, 406 

the Coliseum, while, 57 

with you, the bottle, 32 
Stanley, approbation from Sir Hubert, 
11 

on, 47 
Stanza, and each exalted, 131 
Staple of his argument, finer than the. 
424 



Index 



711 



Star, 384 

constant as the northern, 62 

curb a runaway young, 9 

emigrated to another, 109 

is brotherhood, life's final, 38 

like a falling, 122 

like a guiding, 179 

man is his own, 127 

of desphirit's light, 297 

of earth, deny it who can, 113 

of empire, the, 109 

of the unconquered will, 333 

or garter, for the sake of a ribbon, 42 

our life's, 25 

shall be, the sailor's, 347 

shine, and saw the same, 230 

sunset and evening, 17 

that lights a desert pathway, the, 
3.38 

to guide, a surer, 245 

to men for ever, to become a, 206 
Starboard, rolled to, 354 
Stare, 384 

a distressful, 284 

face the public, 449 

folks must stop and, 186 
Stared aghast at sleep, 369 
Starers and of loud huzzas, of stupid, 

3SS 
Star-gazing, mostly poets is all, 309 
Starlight and moonshine, candles and, 

304 
Starry skies, cloudless climes and, 186 
Stars, 384 

above us, the, 127 

and stripes, home wherever the, 8 

and stripes overhead, 8 

are fire, 9 7 

are old, and the, 240 

broad stripes and bright, 17 

builds among the, 316 

for tapers tall, 184 

forty flags with their silver, 134 

hide their diminished heads, 172 

in a tether, shall hold the, 361 

in the heaven, number the, 205 

like those far, 466 

make thy two eyes, like, 380 

not in our, 127 

of heaven are breaking, till the, 429 

set their watch in the sky, the 
sentinel, 39 

shall fade away, the, 191 

studded with, 268 

that oversprinkle all the heavens, 23 

they say, cannot dispose, 306 

to trace the, 402 

were more in fault than they, their, 
456 

whilst all the, 216 

ye little, 91 
Star-scattered on the grass, 152 
Star-spangled banner, that, 17 
Star-ypointing pyramid, under a, 29 
Start again, get up, 220 

alas, you now must, 283 



Start, a stock of temper we both had 
for a, 400 

at shame, 123 

from every wave, shall, 288 

from their spheres, 380 

tremble and, 307 

with a recognizing, 115 
Started forth, many a one has, 321 

like a guilty thing, 57 
Starting, at first, 379 
Starting-place, our cradle is the, 221 
Startles thousands with a single fall, 

81 
Startling word, speaks the, 88 
Starts, by, 'twas wild, 133 

everything by, 114 

she, 200 
Starve, 384 

some would only, 416 

with feeding, 9 
Starves himself, one rich worldling, 

300 
State, 385 

a knave to me in every, 205 

all were for the, 341 

and from thy, 134 

and save the imperilled, 276 

a pillar of, 85 - 

broken with storms of, 29 

nor despicable, 434 

of Denmark, rotten in the, 344 

of man, the, 164 

of Venice, unto the, 134 

rose of the fair, 263 

sail on, O ship of, 359 

than be true to church and, 213 

the sun in all his, 105 

throne of royal, 107 

to lie in, 184 

wasting town and, 325 

whole machinery of the, 33 

will rush into the, 315 

without king or nobles, a, 59 
State-House is the hub of the solar 

system, 188 
State 's collected will, that, 38s 
States can be saved without it, 301 

dissevered, discordant, belligerent, 
on, 420 

kings, queens and, 368 
Statesman, 385 

and buffoon, 1 14 

pure, the, 104 

too nice for a, 141 
Station ends in, earth 's highest, 104 

in the hall, from its, 280 

like the herald Mercury, a, 250 

the separate and equal, 356 
Statists do, I once did hold it as our 

466 
Statuary, 385 
Statue, 385 

a chief limb of the, 308 

makes his own, 322 

of flesh, 115 
Statue-like repose, in, 105 



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Index 



Stature, 386 

tall, her, 94 
Statute labour, another wants to 

make it, 464 
Stave, now he hums a, 383 

this horrible, 379 
Stay a little longer, I, 108 

and eat it, 48 

as die and, 89 

him, what power can, 406 

how little while we have to, 77 

I ask not to, 228 

know how little while we have to, 
334 

some truth may, 120 

still in the right to, 397 

which says I must not, 428 
Stayed he, stopped or, 325 

the English flag is, 113 

too late I, 406 
Staying no longer a question, 345 
Stays our hurrying feet, 79 

safest and seemliest by her husband, 
443 

to his home, he, 356 
Steadfast in the strength of God, 179 
Steadies with upright keel, 200 
Steal, 386 

a few hours from the night, 74 

a lover true, seeks to, 304 

a shive, of a cut loaf to, 435 

away, silently, 44 

away their brains, 33 

away, then, 220 

cream, vigilant as a cat to, 45 

his dust away, 29 

it not, if men, 404 

my thunder, yet, 405 

one pang from thine, 10 

on me, till death like sleep might, 81 

out of your company, and, 401 

when publishers no longer, 320 
Stealers, these pickers and, 303 
Stealing, 386 
Steals, he kills for gold, he, 157 

my purse, who, 275 
Stealth, do good by, 123 

to do his good by, 386 
Steam, 386 

Steamy column, throws up a, 116 
Steed, 386 

after him lead his masterless, 433 

and the neigh of the, 136 

beneath is lying, 90 

farewell the neighing, 125 

that knows his rider, as a, 436 

the, the mustering squadron, 271 

the waves bound beneath me as a, 
436 

to battle driven, rushed the, 13 
Steeds, 387 

instead of mounting barbed, 432 
Steel, again in complete, 268 

and vengeful, 233 

foemen worthy of their, 433 

heart is true as, 174 



Steel, I forged the, 386 

locked up in, 12 

my man's as true as, 415 

nor poison, nor, 223 

with hoops of, 146 
Steep hills, to climb, 55 

my senses in forgetfulness, and, 370 

my thirsty soul I, 402 
Steeple, and on it put a, 348 

bells, and all, 133 

keeps a-cawing from a, 52 

or a weathercock on a, 285 
Steer, 387 

boldly through the desperate winter 
sea, 281 

can gently, 162 

happily to, 162 

their courses, like ships they, 335 

'tis to glory we, 286 

too nigh the sands, would, 304 
Steered, boats that are not, 141 

by the dumb, and the dead, 357 
Steering, caused of otheres, 53 

like a dray, 215 
Steers straight for the maelstrom, 102 
Stem, moulded on one, 224 

the hisses, and, 449 

the torrent of a woman 's will, to, 
450 

of time, on the thorny, 143 
Stenches, 387 
Step aside, to, is human, 188 

aside, who never takes one, 390 

for death or life, yield a, 431 

judging each, 198 

nor from hell one, 178 

one, above the ridiculous, 391 

one, above the sublime, 391 

one false, 122 
Stephen, 387 

Stepped a stately raven, in there, 325 
Stepping o'er the bounds of modesty, 

not, 266 
Stepping-stones, men may rise on, 170 
Steps, 387 

beware of desperate, 86 

brushing with hasty, 392 

but by gradual, 3 1 

grace was in all her, 161 

of glory, who track the, 152 

to pursue, thy, 9 

wandering, and slow, 462 
Stern array, battle 's magnificently, 19 

daughter of the voice of God, 73 

de himmelstrahlende, 297 
Sterner stuff, ambition should be 

made of, 7 
Stern-eyed Puritans, 31 
Steward, sees but a backward, 248 
Stewed in brine, and, 439 
Stick a feller thru, an' go, 156 

has a propensity to, 114 

he fell like the, 340 

on conversation 's burrs, when you, 
62 

scratched with a, 13 



Index 



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18 



Stick to your aim, 40 
Sticking-place, courage to the, 119 
Sticks out visibly, the axis of the 
earth, 15 

proputty, proputty, 319 
Stiff in opinions, 114 

obstinacy's ne'er so, 287 

upper lip, keep a, 220 
Stifle down with a mailed heel, 413 
Stile, 387 
Stiles, helping . . . lame dogs over, 

460 
Still, all white and, 152 

and for ever grew, 7 7 

and mute, would be, 10 

sad music of humanity, 188 

sound of a voice that is, 169 

suffer and be, 79 

that comes down as, 144 

the night is, 23, 52 

the plains of the water 

them, sleep cannot, 403 
Stilled, advice has often, 93 
Stillness entertain, a wilful, 291 

holds, a solemn, 209 
Stimulating, 387 
Sting, blind-worm's, 179 

each, that bids, 328 

her, to prick and, 270 

honey wears a, 403 

if I be waspish, best beware my, 434 

is not so sharp, 24 

thee more, to, 265 

thee twice, would'st thou have a 
serpent, 356 

thy father 's life, the serpent that 
did, 356 

where is' thy, 163 

without feeling its, 449 
Stings not, grasp it firmly, it, 449 

you for your pains, it, 280 
Stinking, greasy caps, 43 

mackerel, cheap as, 47 
Stinks, and several, 387 
Stint, pouring without, 27 
Stir, above the smoke and, 107 

a very river, that would, 133 

for this, all hell shall, 178 

the fire, now, 116 

the hell within him, 178 

without great argument, not to, 164 
Stirred by too daring a word, lion be, 

226 
Stirring memory of a thousand years, 
72 

not a creature was, 51 
Stirrup-cup to me, thy rich, 78 
Stirs, see, she, 200 

this mortal frame, whatever, 234 
Stitch, stitch, stitch, 360 
Stithy, foul as Vulcan's, 141 
Stock of temper we both had for a 
start, 400 

of your lies in circulation, the, 82 
Stockbrokers, four, took villa resi- 
dences, 379 



Stocking all the day, a, 282 
Stockings, and tall, 401 

were hung, 51 
Stocks and slips, from the docks and, 
461 

watered milk and watered, 325 
Stole a thimble or a spoon, who, 306 

before, pay for what they, 320 

in, the soul of Judas Iscariot, 194 

in and out, 129 

the livery of the court of heaven, 
228 
Stolen, 387 

borrowed, squandered, doled, 157 

not wanting what is, 340 
Stolid, 388 
Stomach, 388 

is not good, my, 6 
Stomachs, 388 
Stone, 388 

and we raised not a, 153 

at his heels a, 75 

at the head, and a stone at the feet, 
229 

away, till the last angel rolls the, 13 

chafing their channels of, 451 

doth lie, underneath this, 427 

for bits of, 378 

from its grave away, roll the, 186 

ideal, all the nonsense of their, 385 

in a thick wall of, 446 

in his cell in the, 446 

is flung, as when a, 53 

no, was hard enough, 458 

on her walls, a, 63 

or brick, deadlier than, 1 14 

or leaves of, 24 

raise the, 207 

some lie beneath the churchyard, 
146 

this precious, 112 

throw on water now a, 53 

to beauty grew, the conscious, 39 

without a, 334 
Stone-deaf has been, 321 
Stones, arise, these, 145 

inestimable, 102 

in piled, 29 

old yew which graspest at the, 468 

pavements fanged with murderous, 
387 

rattle his bones over the, 298 

sermons in, 3 

that spares these, 29 

the martyr, it, 255 

thy cold grey, 35 

trodden down with, 15 

where Milton 's ashes lay, 29 

with drops of rain, 252 

you blocks, you, 27 
Stonewall, 388 

Stony limits cannot hold love out, 239 
Stood against the world, might have, 

before the Tavern, 77 

here once the embattled farmers, 362 



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Index 



Stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, 
424 

still the brave, and, 408 

that night, should have, 95 
Stool, with a three-legged, 59 
Stools, necessity invented, 279 

push us from our, 90 
Stoop, is in that aching, 188 

she '11, when she has tired her wing, 

. , 344 . , • 
wisdom is oft-times nearer when we, 

445 
Stooping through a fleecy cloud, 268 
Stoops from His high majesty, 108 

to folly, woman, 136 
Stop a beer-barrel, might they not, 42 1 

a hole, might, 421 

for thy tread, 109 

my tears must, 438 

their vibrations, to, 397 

themselves, they cannot, 403 

your mouth, I will, 271 
Stopped by three, a thousand may 
well be, 3 7 

or stayed he, not a minute, 325 

which I would have, 399 
Stopping a bung-hole, till he find it, 
421 

for breath, no means of, 229 
Stops with the shore, his control, 288 
Store, gives me wealthy Croesus', 402 

heaven will bless your, 375 

of love, hath better, 232 

or healthful, 355 

pine amidst his, 248 
Storehouse, his cupboard's a, 16 
Storied urn or animated bust, can, 421 
Storm, 388 

after storm, where, 228 

and cloud, sunshine, 141 

and cloudiness, of, 119 

could never have walked in that, 404 

from the darkest, 41 

her brows like gathering, 465 

I had raised, the, 389 

rides upon the, 154 

their high-built organs make, the, 
291 

the pilot that weathered the, 304 

this sublime and terrible, 296 

together, if we might bear the, 409 

unheard, news of the, 319 

we euchred God Almighty's, 115 
Stormed at with shot and shell, 80 
Storming some airy fortress, of, 409 
Storms, and give her to the god of, 133 

he sought the, 304 

may enter, 44 

ne'er broke, which in, 439 

of state, broken with, 29 

rock the ravens on high, as the, 297 

the night in, 189 
Stormy, 389 

gust of long suspended Ahs, one, 188 
Story, 389 

being done, my, 363 



Story 

how to tell my, 363 

in all human, 104 

listen to this simple, 156 

of our days, shuts up the, 406 

old, read in, 15 

snow summits old in, 382 

that's not in Tom Moore, 338 
Stout and brave, hearts though, 163 

of heart, be ye, 232 
Straight, 389 

down the crooked lane, 383 

ez he can, he draws his furrer ez, 356 

path of duty, to the, 104 

to me, bear it, 68 
Straighten up this shape, how will you 

ever, 467 
Straightened out for a crowbar, 188 
Straighter'n a string, may be, 187 
Straightest, pity's the, 305 
Strain again, that, 273 

angels sung this, 37 

hold cheap the, 328 

I cannot prate in puling, 233 

linnets sing their wonted, 233 

my eyes, I, 313 

of man 's bred out, the, 267 

one continuous and unbroken, 112 
Strained the dusky covered close, he, 
263 

the quality of mercy is not, 260 
Strait the gate, how, 126 

path, in yon, 37 
Strand, in Wapping or the, 408 
Stranded with strings of fire, his lyre, 

244 
Strange all this difference should be, 
418 

and unnatural, most foul, 272 

bed-fellows, 21 

delicious amazement, what a, 76 

in that, there 's nothing, 384 

is it not, 72 

seems to me most, 80 

'tis, but true, 416 

't was passing, 363 

with a maid be, 187 
Strangely falls our Christmas-eve, 181 
Stranger said, the, 162 

stooped to the well, the, 348 

than fiction, 416 

to fear, a, 197 

to flattery, a, 197 
Stranger 's land, we live within the, 181 
Strangers, 389 

ask of me, when, 237 

honoured, by, 139 

two, meeting at a festival, 224 
Strangle, some would, 416 
Strangled his language in his tears, 399 
Stratagems and spoils, 273 
Straw, 389 

a bed of, 207 

at wagging of a, 307 

cared not a single, 308 

find quarrel in a, 164 



Index 



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Straw 

strongest oaths are, 70 

tickled with a, 49 
Strawberries, as Dr. Boteler said of, 10 
Strawed our best to the weed 's unrest, 

113 
Straws, begin it with, 13 r 

the forms of hairs or, 45S 
Stray, wishes never learned to, 68 
Straying pigs, erring souls as, 52 
Streak of snow, fades the last long, 372 

on ocean 's cheek, the crimson, 73 
Stream, a fount about to, 225 

are eddies of the mighty, 322 

her paly, 101 

mercy of a rude, 153 

of time doth run, which way the, 
407 

runs fast, the, 344 

runs swift, the, 344 

shows his hoar leaves in the glassy, 
444 

stamp them on the running, 450 
Streaming eyes, with, 76 

o'er us, 17 

were so gallantly, 17 
Streams, cleansing my, 247 

for other 's woes, that, 448 

in lavish, 248 

large, from little fountains flow, 2 

of revenue, abundant, 340 

that keep a summer mind, 323 
Street, 389 

all down the long and narrow, 400 

smacks of the field and the, 3 14 

the car rattling o'er the stony, 444 

the front-door is on the, 129 

to street, hawks nosegays from, 343 
Strength, 389 

and courage can avert, 189 

but weakness, not, 4 

dangerous humours up to, 43 1 

for a kiss 's, 204 

he needs, with all the, 250 

in every drop, there 's life and, 445 

in her arms, 142 

is in your union, all your, 433 

king 's name is a tower of, 202 

my arms of, 386 

of bones, nor founded on the brittle, 

of God, steadfast in the, 179 

of limb, 46 

of ten, as the, 12 

of the race, 113 

of youth, wants that sin against the, 
470 

that tower of, 413 

thou canst not tell what, 429 

to have a giant's, 151 

to nerve, tends their, 37 

wasting her, 377 
Strengthen and sustain, but, 436 
Strengthened, are lifted up and, 156 
Strengthened man 's heart, 35 
Strenuous, 389, 390 



Stress, dies in a desperate, 376 
Stretch a cord, can, 389 

forth thy rod, 388 

my hands out, I, 313 

of hell, down all the, 165 

forth your iron thread, 152 

out your hand to me, 140 
Stretched upon the plain, eagle, io5 
Strewed thy grave, not have, 36 
Strews, many a holy text around she 
401 

with fresh flowers, 452 
Stricken deer, my own, 31 

deer go weep, 84 
Strict in his arrest, 80 
Stride on before the events, 358 
Strife, 390 

ancient forms of party, 339 

and sorrow, this, 94 

be a hero in the, 179 

clubs typical of, 88 

hatred, battle and, 215 

he looks beyond the, 432 

hour of danger, toil and, 39 

madding crowd 's ignoble, 68 

of labour and, 389 

of Truth with Falsehood, 83 

once were weary of the, 370 

overwhelmed in the, 61 

scorned amid the reeling, 43 1 

some to public, 325 

the single thraldom or a double, 442 

to dare the elements to, 436 

void of cares and, 359 

without a further. 335 
Strike, 390 

and yet afraid to, 71 

another blow, to, 130 

by and by it will, 447 

me, spurn me, 378 

mine eyes, they, 364 

the blow, themselves must, 29 
Strikes, 390 

as soon, and, 173 

heaven is not always angry when 
he, 177 

him dead, in fair battle, 12 

the dark Ferrash, 401 
Striking deep, a thousand spurs are, 

179 
String attuned to mirth, there 's not a, 
257 

of joy, approbation strikes the, 12 

straighter'n a, 187 

that holds those weights, the, 403 
Strings, 390 

a harp of thousand, 170 

laying the hand on the, 397 

of fire, stranded with, 244 

would break, whose very, 10 
Stripes, 390 

broad, and bright stars, 17 
Stripling for woman's heart, a, 398 
Strive, and hold cheap the strain, 328 

mightily, but eat and drink as 
friends, 214 



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Index 



Strive on to finish the work, let us, 337 
Strives the woodcock with the gin, so, 

45 7 
Strivings after better hopes, 88 

longings, yearnings, 156 
Striv'st to get, still thou, 170 
Stroke after stroke, 314 

a nettle, 280 

ere we feel the friendly, 89 

of death is as a lover 's pinch, 79 

of fate, nearest to the, 127 

the tyrant 's, 146 
Strokes, 390 
Strong, 391 

and free, 247 

and lusty, yet I am, 357 

a note, not so, 136 

but wants that little, 249 

enforcement be, gentleness my, 23 

in awe, keep the, 61 

is thy heart so, 215 

man, rousing herself like a, 277 

man must go, 78 

men, not two, 84 

nor pure, neither, 146 

not to the, 324 

potations, banish, 32 

so, yet so refined, 453 

the peaceful are the, 300 

wail of the weak against the, 219 

what king so, 42 

without rage, 84 

with the strength. 113 

women are not in their best fortunes, 
456 
Stronger, our love it was, 236 

than . . . the mason, 164 

thought's a weapon, 159 

worthier of regard and, 58 
Strongest dare, is more than the, 133 

oaths are straw, 70 
Strongly framed, a being, 189 
Strow the brooks in Vallombrosa, 216 
Strown, lay withered and, 216 
Struck by stone or brick, 114 

eagle, so the, 106 

one chord of music, 5 1 

the foremost man, 36 

the wreck, have said it, 465 

till it be, 135 
Struggle, 391 

bravely, 58 
Struggled in earnest, that has, 314 
Struggles labour, wherever, 144 

through which it has passed, in 
Struggling to be free, limed soul that, 

377 
Strut and rave, our little hour of, 411 
Struts and frets his hour, that, 411 
Stubborn bear, authority be a, 158 
Stuck in my throat, 8 

to me day and night, 286 
Studded with stars, 268 
Student pale, index-learning turns no, 

192 
Studied in a sad ostent, well, 372 



Studieth revenge, a man that, 334 
Studious how to please, love, 234 
Study, 391 

built in your parlour or, 212 

in an old gentleman's, 279 

of mankind is man, the proper, 250 

of revenge, and, 231 

pains, reading, 67 

to be good and just, 104 
Stuff, a deal of skimble-skamble, 367 

ambition should be made of sterner, 
7 

as dreams are made, we are, 428 

dross and, 266 

for that is the, 407 

of that perilous, 263 

the true celestial, 5 

they sell, half so precious as the, 426 

untainted, with, 179 
Stuffs as dreams are, of such, 428 

him to the throat-gates, morsel 
that, 92 

out his vacant garments, 165 
Stung her, and it, 449 

if you would not be, 449 

it newly, some bee had, 226 

thou serpent, never adder, 412 
Sty, the fattest in Epicurus', 181 
Style, 391 

of man, Christian is the highest, 51 

of the place, according to the, 403 

refines, how the, 231 
Sub-editor at Cork, 294 
Subject, long and wish to be a, 202 

of all verse, lies the, 180 

of the comic muse, love 's the, 234 

ourselves, we know a, 206 

owes the prince, as the, 454 

to the same diseases, 197 

we old men are to this vice, 244 
Subjects are rebels from principle, 
when, 328 

for dissection, form good, 351 

give, unless their, 202 

wise, which were their, 430 
Subjugation, foreign conquest and, 

112 
Sublime, 391 

as the energy, 143 

a thing it is to suffer, 391 

in his simplicity, 43 

make our lives, 138 
Submission, 391 

none left but by, 332 
Submit or yield, never to, 231 
Submitting sways, by, 400 
Subscribe enough, to, 266 

for soap, hundreds will, 38 

subscribe, 36 
Subserves another's gain, 160 
Substance of the common earth, my, 

107 
Subtle, cruel and inconstant, 83 
Suburb of the life elysian, 76 
Succeed and give, 129 

in the world, who would, 319 



Index 



717 



Succeeding wave washes, though the, 

138 
Succeeds, a sure reward, 427 
Success, 392 

remove, why should man 's, 342 

which comes, that form of, 389 
Succession, and Protestant, 170 
Successive, they fall, 250 
Such, heaven is full of, 176 

things be, can, 56 
Suck in the earth, 101 

melancholy out of a song, I can, 257 
Sucking the life-blood, by, 423 
Suckle fools and chronicle, 138 
Suckled in a creed outworn, 293 
Suckling, man or woman or, 113 
Sucks and drains a people 's blood, 64 

where the bee, 21 
Suction, like woodcocks upon, 256 
Sudden as flaws congealed, 161 

flight, not attained by, 177 
Suddenly, there is no man, 251 
Sue, 392 

for a debt he never, 82 

in fonna pauperis to God, 312 
Suez, 392 

Suicide, the snakes committed, 372 
Suffer and be still, 79 

and be strong, to, 391 

for a high cause to, 120 

in the mind to, 19 

it, detraction will not, 185 

like him, all who, 160 

love, a good epithet, 239 

the agonies we, 172 
Sufferance, 392 

be, what should his, 197 

in corporal, 80 
Suffered more, never mortal, 208 

which, being, 131 
Suffering ages look, the, 188 

are in, 455 

doing or, 436 

ended with the day, 105 

entereth, knowledge by, 206 

from protested bills, virtue, 269 
Sufferings, 392 
Suffers, recoils, 232 
Suffice, could not one, 12 
Suffice th them, the good old rule, 396 
Sufficient at one time, I think 's, 335 
Sugar and saltness agree, oil, vinegar, 
349 

o'er the devil, 88 
Suggestion, 392 
Suited to the age, well, 379 
Suits of grey, or, 220 

of solemn black, customary, 448 

of woe, the, 448 

the better 't, 161 
Sully your pure prayer, to, 348 
Sultan rises, the, 401 

to the realm of death, a, 401 
Sultry day, will look on a, 269 
Sum of living, makes up the, 229 
Summed in those few brief words, 313 



Summer air, in clear, 219 

brave, youth like, 5 

by the same winter and, 197 

days, and, 74 

dust, dry as, 91 

for winter, spring and, 20 

friends, like, 3 

friendship, 3 

house, in any, 399 

is green, when, 216 

mind, streams that keep a, 323 

morn, youth like, 5 

no price is set on the lavish, 177 

Saint Martin 's, 168 

the last rose of, 342 
Summer's cloud, like a, 56 

day, a, 122 

dust, lay the, 27 

heat, on fantastic, 191 

ripening breath, by, 239 
Summers in a sea of glory, 153 

in raw, inclement, 393 

not a few, 338 
Summit, and we mount to its, 208 

attained, the, 78 

of my crown, upon the, 68 

slippery, the, 305 

whose, like all hills, 123 
Summits, snowy, old in story, 382 
Summon the place to surrender, 283 
Summoned from some primeval night, 
419 

to drink to my flame, 274 
Summons comes to join, when thy, 227 

thee to heaven or to hell, 205 

upon a fearful, 57 
Sums, doomed to pay the, 106 
5mm, 392, 393 

all else beneath the, 35 

ancient as the, 180 

and moon, to wind up the, 9 

and shines the, 269 

and with the setting, 122 

appears, when the rosy, 101 

at noon, the bloody, 63 

bales unopened to the, 404 

came peeping in at morn, 330 

climbs slow, in front the, 224 

declines, the, 353 

dies with the dying, 281 

doth move, 97 

flush of a new-born, 13 

following the, 112 

from their presence, I took the, 284 

glory which is brighter than the, 43 7 

grows cold, till the, 240 

grows into the great, 73 

had long since, the, 269 

himself grow dim, the, 191 

his beams display, let my, 408 

hurl their lances in the, 330 

in all his state, 105 

in heaven, for the last time the, 420 

is but a spark of fire, the, 376 

is out, it is because the, 343 

Juliet is the, 225 



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Index 



Sun 

like the, doth shine, 443 

livery of the burnished, 60 

never sets on his might, the, 112 

no, no moon, 285 

no, upon an Easter day, 129 

O blessed breathing, 188 

of mid-day, 409 

she snatches from the, 402 

shows all the beauty of the, 240 

signal of the setting, 115 

that rose on freedom, 142 

that sends the hidden, 18 

the common, 293 

the heat o' the, 103 

tinged with the rising, 56 

to thee may never rise, to-morrow 's, 
84 

true as the, 245 

true as the dial to the, 88 

under the, 182 

was low, on Linden when the, 225 

upon the upland lawn, 151 

went down, as the, 132 

will pierce, a, 159 
Sunbeam, death with the might of his, 
77 

soiled by outward touch as the, 417 
Sunbeams, 393 

the gay motes that people the, 270 
Sunburst may smile on thee to- 
morrow, 186 
Sunday, 393 

his plough goeth every, 421 

night, last, 73 

putting too much Sabbath into, 34s 

tankards foam, no, 345 
Sunday's best, he was in his, 87 
Sundays, may call it herb-grace o', 344 

on, no admittance at this wicket, 

r- „ 345 

Sunflower, 393 

Sung, he worked and, 262 

let there be, 156 

of Chaos, I, 46 
Sunk the hopes of all men, in these are, 
193 

unrequited toil shall be, 199 
Sunless and silent and deep, 451 
Sunlight, as moonlight unto, 268 

clasps the earth, the, 204 

drinketh dew, as, 204 
Sunny, youth it is, 4 
Sunrise of the soul, meet the, 324 
Sun 's a thief, the, 402 
Suns, brighter, dispense serener light, 
65 

widened with the process of the, 322 
Sunset and evening star, 1 7 

glow, Burgundy in all its, 344 

of life gives me mystical lore, 358 

were seen, at, 216 
Sunset-gun, to the last, 112 
Sunshine, flies of estate and, 3 

follows the rain, 442 

holy-day, on a, 71 



Sunshine in the shady place, 119 

still must follow rain, 76 

storm and cloud, 141 

the parting gleam of, in 

they have never seen the, 437 

we '11 talk of, 74 
Sunward, souls which God is calling, 

439 
Sup, like a hermit you. 441 

of New England's air, a, 281 

upon myself, 9 

with thee, take Him in that comes 
to, 96 
Superfluity, 393 
Superfluous lags the veteran, 424 

to say you're welcome were, 438 

verse, marred by a, 109 
Supped on dormouse pie, 96 

on fame, dined or, 123 
Supper, 393 

wine is poured at last, the, 194 
Supplant those rough rug-headed 

kerns, 424 
Supplied, can never be, 300 
Support him after, but to, 129 

of this declaration, for the, 307 
Supporters, its sole, 267 
Supposed a bear, a bush, 128 
Suppressors of our vice, 345 
Supremacy and sway, seek for rule, 

456 
Supreme, all for him, unchanging and, 
419 

in grace, 154 
Surcease, not desire, but its, 4 
Sure and safe one, a, 140 

death, uncertain life and, 222 

foundation, no, set on blood, 27 

I '11 make assurance doubly, 14 

one, if another fails, 71 
Surf, of the rock-beating, 386 
Surface of the whole globe, 112 
Surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, 

273 
Surge resolves, whose liquid, 402 

was seething free, when the, 354 
Surgery, hath no skill in, 184 
Surges, the mournful, 205 
Surnamed the Destroyer, 87 
Surpass old wine, few things, 444 
Surpassed, in loftiness of thought, 309 
Surprise, death takes us by, 79 

of marvel or, 147 

was the chiefest, 76 
Surrender, summon the place to, 283 
Surrenders, the Guard dies but never, 

166 
Survey, I am monarch of all I, 266 

make but an interior, 355 
Survive or perish, 366 

rather than let the nation, 431 
Survives, loyal hope. 219 
Susan came to live with me, when, 270 
Suspect him, you may, 401 

the thoughts of others, 51 

'twas he that made the slaughter, 41 



Index 



m 



Suspected, to be, 64 

't would take us two apart, never, 
400 
Suspects himself a fool, 251 

yet strongly loves, 243 
Suspended oar, the light drip of the, 

286 
Suspicion, 394 

intending deep, 307 

of a bond, at, 233 
Suspiration of forced breath, windy, 

448 
Sustain, but strengthen and, 436 

my house, the prop that doth, 223 
Sustained and soothed, but, 227 

it, the saint, 453 
Swaggers, swears, who, 248 
Swailer-tail coats, rigged out in their, 



Swallow gudgeons ere th're catched, 48 
Swallowed in the flood, half our sail- 

. ors, 231 

in the yeast, some, 35 

others to be, 30 

the whole parish, 133 

up and lost in the wide womb, 90 

up and lost, to be, 228 
Swallow's wings, and flies with, 186 
Swan, 394 

I'll play the, 273 

lad, and every goose a, 469 

sings her own elegy, the mournful, 
273 

this pale, faint, 273 
Swan-like end, he makes a, 273 
Swan's death-hymn, the wild, 273 
Swans sing before they die, 366 
Swap, 394 

Swash of an Irishman, leathering, 194 
Swashing, 394 

Swat, he knows what's, 261 
Sway, and impious men bear, 424 

mercy is above this sceptred, 260 

prevailed with double, 352 

rule, supremacy and, 456 

the sweeping whirlwind 's, 470 
Swayed him onward, that, 159 

rod of empire might have, 109 
Sways, by submitting, 400 

she level, so, 454 

the future, yet that scaffold, 41 7 
Swear, 394 

and fight, always ready to, 408 

and lie to, 218 

but now and then, 372 

by the lamp that saw her, 428 

not by the moon, 268 

unto a sin, to, 287 
Swearing, vows which break them- 
selves in, 428 
Swears, and a' that, 248 
Sweat under a weary life, 79 
Sweats to death, Falstaff, 210 
Sweaty night-caps, threw up their, 43 
Sweep, nor wild wind, 113 

over thee in vain, 288 



Sweeps a room as for thy laws, who, 
102 

the sea, 376 
Sweet, 394 

Alice, don't you remember, 29 

and bitter fancy, 124 

and fair she seems to be, 343 

and our union as, 257 

are the uses of adversity, 3 

as English air could make her, 343 

as lovely melancholy, nothing's so 
dainty, 257 

as those by hopeless fancy feigned, 
205 

beautiful as, 20 

but much more, 411 

day, so cool, so calm, 73 

girl-graduates, 162 

is death to me, -24.1 

is pleasure after pain, 16 

is revenge, especially to women, 334 

look thou but, 302 

love art thou, 241 

maid, bride-bed to have decked, 36 

revenge, at first though, 335 

sorrow, parting is such, 296 

sweet home, 182 

sweets to the, 39s 

the pleasure, 16 

there's nothing half so, 236 

the sounds of village bells, 52 

time, youth and home and that, 23 

to know, how, 266 

to the weary death is, 79 

would smell as, 275 
Sweet-and-twenty, then come kiss me, 

239 
Sweeten this little hand, will not, 169 
Sweeter, ain't modester nor, 95 

far may be, 331 

manners, with, 252 

still, odours crushed are, 191 

sure never girl gave, 205 
Sweetest garland to the sweetest 
maid, the, 395 

hours, the, 165 

nut hath sourest rind, 286 
Sweetheart, I were unmannerly, 204 

Tray, Blanch and, 95 
Sweet-marjoram of the salad, 179 
Sweetness, 394 

and waste its, 149 

graceful ease and, 128 

of ambrosial. 204 
Sweets, 395 

into your list, love to get, 204 

stolen, are always sweeter, 387 
Swell out and fail, 52 

the organ 'gins to, 264 

with its voluptuous, 334 
Swelling like a turkey-cock, 418 
Swells a self-elected saint, the proud- 
est, 316 

the gale, note that, 293 

the tide of love, pity. 305 
Swerve from law, Britons rarely, 37 



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Index 



Swerved, their honesty never, 183 
Swerves, destiny never, 86 
Swerving and flowing asunder, 339 
Swift, not to the, 324 

the race not always to the, 318 

true hope is, 186 
Swiftness, we may outrun by violent, 

_ . 2 9 2 

Swtg, 39 s 

Swim, how we apples, 1 1 

in, a naughty night to, 282 

leave us yit to sink or, 320 

on bladders, boys that, 153 

sink or, 366 

till the brain begins to, 460 
Swimmer, 395 
Swine, 395 

or mange in, 306 
Swing, no v'ice hed sech a, 50 

of Pleiades, Plato and the, 207 

the battle-sword, 151 

the wild falcon soar her, 344 
Swingeing long curse, laid a, 26 
Swings the hammer of industry, 

round, 410 
Swinish multitude, a, 271 
Switzerland again was free, 217 
Swooned nor uttered cry, she nor, 76 
Swoop, at one fell, 49 
Sword, 395 

and a trusty hand, a good, 63 

and desolation, 329 

drawn with the, 199 

ef you take a, 156 

eye, tongue, 263 

for liberty, some draw, 146 

from a courtly, 42 

his terrible swift, 153 

is bright and keen, whose, 390 

laid by, 26 

man for the, 454 

nor the deputed, 260 

reluctant, who draws the, 317 

rust, and his good, 29 

sharper than the, 368 

the pen is mightier than the, 301 

will open, which I with, 293 

with fire and, 425 
Sword 's point, conducting trade at the, 

Swords, 39s 

than twenty of their, 302 

would have leaped, ten thousand, 

c 5 ° 

Swore, 39s 

as deacons do, the Deacon, 74 

a thousand times he, 329 

she, in faith, 363 
Sworn an oath, I have, 29 
Swound, like noises in a, 190 
Syllable, every, a prayer, 340 

of recorded time, the last, 411 
Syllables, 395 

that lives on, 458 

which breathe, with, 210 
Symbols, mute, of a joyful morn, 275 



Symmetry, could frame thy fearful, 

40s 
Sympathize with clay, 56 
Sympathy, it is the secret, 237 
Syrup of poppy, sauce of, 96 
System, all the apparatus of the, 33 

the hub of the solar, 188 
Systems into ruin, atoms or, 38 



Tabernacle, through the pews of a, 212 
Table, joy of the whole, 172 

of my memory, from the, 331 

on a roar, that were wont to set the, 
468 

smiled as he sat by the, 371 

upper end o' the, 71 

who at her, 30 
Tables, and near a thousand, 182 

make it plain upon, 345 

my, 426 

the marriage, 147 
Table-talk, 395 
Tail abridged, with his, 249 

came through, a hole where his, 87 

holds the eel of science by the, 192 

Satan gave thereat his, 432 

watched the compass chase its, 60 
Tailor, 396 

lown, he called the, 387 
Tailors, from noblemen to, 347 

increase, and breed ballad-makers, 
299 
Tails, heads I win, ditto, 444 
Taint of sin, this uneradicable, 365 

not thy mind, 270 

they bare, some dang'rous, 403 
Tainted and corrupt, what plea so, 213 

to decay, 148 

wether of the flock, I am a, 439 
Taints of blood, 160 
Take, 396 

and doctors give what they would, 
214 

all there is, 78 

arms against a sea, 19 

at Number One, do n't, 13 

away ... a chief limb of the statue, 
308 

away the flesh, let Meg now, 380 

away the grief of a wound, 184 

away the sword, 301 

her, the Devil, 240 

her without her answer, 10 

Him in that comes to sup, 96 

in God, ef you want to, 43 1 

it hard, you mus 'n', 288 

me again to your heart, 340 

my house, you, 223 

my life, you, 223 

my soul to, 370 

'old o' the wings o' the mornin', 112 

the cash, ah, 44 

the grog, I'll, 321 



Index 



721 



Take 

the hindmost, the devil, 87 

the wings of morning, 74 

their flight, 2 7 

what they would give, when lawyers, 
214 

whistle for what you might, 440 

ye each a shell, 292 

you out, unmannerly to, 204 
Taken thy lamp, hast but, 108 

when, to be well shaken, 358 
Takes all away, a cloud, 240 

and him that, 260 

it by sovereignty of nature, 278 

no rise from outward things, 415 

something from our hearts, it, 470 

the kiss, and, 203 

us by surprise, death, 79 
Taking me for him, folks got, 418 

notes, a chiel 's amang you, 317 

off, damnation of his, 71 
Tale, 396 

an ancient, new told, 400 

an ever changing, 219 

and she grew pale at the raven 's, 326 

an old, 15 

a schoolboy's, 352 

as tedious as a twice-told, 400 

breathe out the tender, 402 

every, condemns me, 61 

every shepherd tells his, 307 

makes up life's, 221 

of terror now, what a, 5 

or adorn a, 274 

or history, ever hear by, 238 

so tedious as a twice-told, 400 

their music tells, how many a, 23 

there is to tell, for a, 74 

told by an idiot, a, 411 

unfold, I could a, 380 
Tales, moral of all human, 18 

of delight, have fashioned their, 207 

of sorrow done, 68 

truant at his, 196 
Talk, 396 

a keerless man in his, 135 

awhile of me and thee, some little, 
423 

I cannot, with civet in the room, 54 

of a noun and a verb, that usually, 
3i7 

of death, why do I, 78 

of his horse, nothing but, 187 

of many things, to, 430 

of wills, and, 117 

proud of her, 320 

to me, and have him, 399 

with men, angels might, 417 

with you, I will, 41 
Talked, 396 

of love as coolly, we, 241 

the night away, 68 

with us, one of Plutarch 's men, 308 
Talking, 397 

to theirselves, mostly sounded to 
be a-, 314 



Talks, thinks as much as he, 423 

too long, when it, 396 
Tall, 397 

divinely, 94 

her stature, 94 

oaks from little acorns grow, 2 

were I so, 263 
Tally, the score and the, 317 
Tarn lo'ed him, 37 

was glorious, 191 
Tamarinds and dates are thine, 12 
Tame a sight, how, 133 

spectator, the, 265 

yet simple and, 187 
Tamper with the weights, nor, 389 
Tangents straight, resolve by sines 

and, 6 
Tangled chain, speech was like a, 3 So 

web, what a, 82 
Tankards foam, no Sunday, 345 
Tap upon the shoulder, a, 42 
Taper, beneath a midnight, 317 

what they call their midnight, 123 
Taper-light, or with, 152 
Taper's light, like the glimmering, 185 
Tapers tall, stars for, 184 

waste that instant they take fire, 8 1 
Tapestry waves dark, the, 317 
Tapped, than to have a nerve. 2S0 
Tapping a glossy boot, leisurely, 384 

at my chamber door, 261 

the hollow beech-tree, the wood- 
pecker, 457 
Taps that in our day were famous, 22 
Tapsalteerie, may a' gae, 44 
Tar, puttied up with, 115 
Tara's halls, the harp that once 

through, 170 
Tardiness or quickness, pulses', 363 
Tarn, into some sleeping, 53 
Tarries long in hands o' cowards, thet, 

143 
Tarry the grinding, must needs, 41 

you may for ever, 254 
Tar 's labour, cheers the, 408 
Tart, in the smallest public, 54 
Tartness of his face, 118 
Tarts, cooks must live by making, 63 
Task, and though hard be the, 55 

begin, sees some, 410 

dedicated to the great, 276 
" grief was writhing o'er its, 165 

hast done, thy worldly, 103 

her toilet's greasy. 410 
Tasking, with a whole soul's, 177 
Taste, 397 

and sense, spirit, 67 

ashes to the, 76 

for being diddled, 103 

his blood, but, 18 

not the Pierian spring, 215 

of danger and reproof, without the, 
332 

of death, never, 66 

of our despair, ye, 465 

of tediousness, rob it of some, 400 



722 



Index 






Taste 

of your quality, give us a, 322 

sans, 49 

the hire, let. them not, 140 

the whole of it, let me, 78 

tree whose mortal, 93 
Tasted, some books are to be, 30 
Tastes, 397 

his salt, who breaks his bread and, 

our needs, our, 381 

the coarsest, 259 
Tasting, have robbed the whole tree, 

115 
Tattered ensign down, tear her, 114 
Tatters, old opinions, rags and, 1 10, 143 

tear a passion to, 3 79 
Tattling woman, she 's a very, 454 
Taught, but such as practice, 445 

by Pope, 386 

by that power that pities me, 305 

by time, my heart, 174 

how happy is he born and, 418 

letters, heaven first, 216 

me, folly's all they've, 118 

me this, it has, 117 

me to rhyme, it hath, 239 

thee, say I, 140 

them that, St. Pat, 440 

us how to die, 91 
Taunting truths, cold, bitter, 122 
Tavern or inn, as a good, 192 

you eat at Terra's, 32 
Tax, censure is the, 46 
Taxation, and her suckling babe, 43 2 
Taxed, the beggar is, 176 
Taxes, I like the, no 
Taylor preach upon a morning, 151 
' 'Te Deum," "Non nobis" and, 156 
Tea, 397 
Teach, 397, 398 

him, I should but, 363 

O ye who, 135 

thee, shall the Koran, 242 

the rustic moralist to die, 401 

you to drink, deep, 100 
Teaches beasts to know their friends, 
nature, 278 

us little here, 179 
Teaching me that word, 72 

twenty to follow mine own, 397 
Teachings, and list to nature's, 362 

we retain, its, 117 
Tear, 398 

and forgive her deceit with a, 333 

a passion to tatters, 379 

for pity, hath a, 161 

from your eyelids wiped a, 23 

her tattered ensign down, 114 

him for his bad verses, 424 

in all my miseries, think to shed a, 
399 

in her eye, and a, 371 

is not worth a wistful, 37s 

or streaming, 219 

that we shed, and the, 274 



Tear 

thee unexpressed, though it, 234 

the graceful, 448 

too foolish for a, 371 

unsullied with a, 370 

upon the word, dropped a, 287 
Tear-drop melts, a woman 's, 398 
Tearing along that night, she came, 

346 
Tears, 398, 399 

adown that dusky cheek have 
rolled, 174 

and anarchy and wrath, 143 

and 'twere your hot, 76 

blame not these, 328 

by a torrent of, 389 

cease, and all, 208 

cease your, 74 

for his love, 7 

I can see your falling, 74 

in his eyes, 307 

lie too deep for, 404 

must stop, my, 438 

my smiles for half thy, 409 

nor all your, 465 

of all the angels, it would need the. 
449 

of pity, 160 

of the widower when he sees, 442 

parted in silence, and, 296 

pure messengers, 29 

rivers shed of, 38 

the, the smiles, 258 

the moon into salt, 402 

the ocean 's misty, 101 

they shed no, 259 

time is best measured by, 406 

to pour sad, 293 

upon my grave, drop thy foolish, 76 

Venus smiles not in a house of, 424 

we waste, and the, 451 

with artificial, 118 
Tedded grass, the smell of, 371 
Tedious, 399, 400 

as a twice-told tale, life is as, 400 
Tediousness, 400 

Teeth and forehead of our faults, the, 
289 

nothing on edge, set my, 309 

proud of her, 320 

sans, 49 

to cast into my, 15 
Tegument endure, this worthless, 377 
Tell, 400 

a hundred, might, 188 

and another, 218 

her that I died, 243 

her that wastes her time and me, 
343 

I daurna, 234 

if I can, 327 

I want it to, 279 

me, and thou canst not, 377 

me, I implore, 17 

me how to woo, oh, 456 

me, my heart, if this be love, 235 



Index 



723 



Tell 

me, my soul, 79 

me not in mournful numbers, 222 

nought to do but mark and, 305 

one hath power to, 178 

sir, I have none to, 389 

tedious it were to, 400 

that I cannot, 425 

the anger of my heart, my tongue 
will, 412 

thee a lie, if I, 218 

their days, some, 398 

the reason why I cannot, 327 

the soldier brave enough to, 432 

truth and shame the devil, 417 

us all they think, when preachers, 
3i5 

us of the road, returns to, 72 

us this, to, 426 

ways we cannot, 154 

why, but cannot, 327 

yeou, with an I dew vum or an I, 74 

you, I would, 76 

you no fibs, I'll, 323 
Telling of it, by, 219 
Tells he o'er, what damned minutes, 
243 

his tale, every shepherd, 307 

me, there's something, 238 

them that others, which, 455 
Temper, 400 

a hot, leaps o'er a cold decree, 33 

in good spirits and good, 197 

man, made thee to, 452 

oft has vent, in bad, 235 

so justice with mercy, 199 

the imagination with judgment, 191 

was generous, whose, 197 

which, bears the better, 213 
Temperance and repose, joy and, 94 

you must acquire and beget a, 379 
Tempered with love 's sighs, ink were, 
308 

with well-boiled water, 440 
Tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, 

209 
Tempest, 400 

for in the very torrent, 379 

of sobs, was lost in a, 389 

should not have meddled with a, 297 

through calm and, 245 

wrought, ocean into, 377 
Tempesting forth, I come, 284 
Tempest 's worst, who has known the, 

328 
Tempests roar, nor, 89 

shook down trees, 25 
Temple door, his torch is at thy, 255 

gummed on each, 363 

is a good, a holy place, 52 

is that a, 367 

let each new, 376 

of my youth, 269 

walls, built their, 155 
Temple-bells are callin', for the, 392 

they say, the, 252 



Temples, 400 

about, sported his eyes and his, 463 

of his god, 89 

the solemn, 428 
Temporal dole, with a, 114 
Tempt me no further, 139 

the dying anchorite, 't would, 349 

with doubts, who, 347 
Temptation, most dangerous is that, 
347 

strife, the, 390 

ye 're aiblins nae, 142 
Tempted, 400 

him as you have done, 332 

save us from being, 313 

the tempter or the, 400 
Tempter, 400 
Tempting grow, 226 
Ten, as the strength of, 12 

Commandments in your face, I 'd 
set my, S9 

Commandments, old as the, 59 

Commandments, where there aren't 
no, 392 

Commandments will not budge, 
the, 386 

days' wonder at the least, 456 

grief makes one hour, 165 

hoops, shall have, 130 

it's waur 1 '11 get, 329 

minutes to five, I declare, 92 

o'clock, for it's now, 443 

or half after ten, we take, 210 

thousand ducats to have it baned, 
325 

thousand fleets sweep over thee, 288 

thousand men that fishes, 102 

thousand, picked out of, 183 

thousand swords would have leaped, 
50 

thousands, peace its, 431 

times frail, call us, 453 

times o'er, barbered, 18 

times slain, though he were, 199 

to one is no impeach of valour, 423 

to one, 'tis, 168 

touched me for, 346 
Tender, 401 

and true, Douglas, 97 

a part as he has about him, as, 180 

comely, valiant Ireland, 194 

fierceness of the dove, 97 

for another's pain, the, 392 

or too firm a heart, too, 236 
Tenderest, the bravest are the, 34 
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 280 
Tenderness, thanks to its, 404 
Tendril, who dare blaspheme the 

twisted, 69 
Tends, to place and power all public 

spirit, 305 
Tenement of life, on the walls of this, 
275 

refit, this, 367 

the threshold of the ruined, 44 
Tenements to Ned, lands and, 91 



724 



Index 



Tenets might be wrong, in some nice, 

120 
Tennis, 401 

Tenor of their way, 68 
Tens, two, to a score, 362 
Tent, 401 

nightly pitch my moving, 278 

unto my, 12 

which I am quitting, is a, 375 
Tented field, action in the, 130 
Tents are rude for thee, our Arab, 85 

are spread, their silent, 26 

shall fold their, 44 

with love or thrones without, 85 
Tenures, his, and his tricks, 214 
Term, doomed for a certain, 380 
Termagant, for o'erdoing, 379 
Terms, 401 

Terrestrial mould, though of, 40 
Terrible impression, such, 98 

oath, a, 287 

shape, I hardly fear his, 78 

swift sword, 153 

than this, no shape more, 165 

trade, war is a, 432 
Terror, Cassius in your threats, no, 404 

now, what a tale of, 5 

of the household, the, 416 

so full of dismal, 99 

when this dumb, 147 
Terrors, 401 

Tertian, the slow fever called the, 441 
Test, good work is the daily, 460 

of affection's a tear, the, 398 
Testament, go no furder than my, 43 1 

of bleeding war, the purple, 432 
Testify, alive at this day to, 36 
Tether, shall hold the stars in a, 361 
Teutonic pluck, is genuine, solid, old, 

3°7 
1 ext, 401 

a neat rivulet of, 293 

approve it with a, 330 

in Galatians, a great, 71 

of pike and gun, the holy, 329 

one unquestioned, 155 

that week, made it his, 219 
Texts, 401 

blends gospel, 247 

of despair or hope, 24 
Thames, with no allaying, 445 
Thank God you are rid of a knave, 422 

heaven, fasting, 238 

heaven the crisis, 229 

Providence, then Bill let us, 347 

thee, Father, I, 109 

thee, Jew, I, 72 

whatever gods may be, I, 376 

whom none can, 26 
Thanked me, she, 363 
Thankful, 401 

to meet, you 're, 314 
Thankless child, to have a, 49 
Thanks, 401 

for this relief much, 57 

to stay and eat it, 48 



Thanks 

to the human heart, 404 
Thanksgiving to the vine, 445 
Thatch, an opening in the, 68 
Thaw and resolve itself, 134 

like snaw when it 's, 215 
Theatre, the world's a, 383 
Thee and me, then no more of, 423 

not of itself but, 100 

when I live to, 227 
Theft, the slyer the, 240 
Theme, fools are my, 350 

his passion and his, 217 

of praise, an endless, 236 

or guess that idle, 274 

the glad diviner 's, 98 
Themes, were his usual, 324 
Theoric, 401 
There, and she was, 105 

it is, my child, 209 
Thessalian bulls, dewlapped like, 88 
Thetis, in the lap of, 269 
Thick and thin, to dash through, 72 

as autumnal leaves, 216 

upon him, honours, 164 
Thicker than itself, were, 169 
Thickest, where the snow-flakes fall, 

372 
Thicket, above the, 384 
Thickness, its thinness or its, 363 
Thick-ribbed ice, region of, 90 
Thief, 401 

doth fear each bush an officer, the, 
394 

each thing 's a, 402 

of time, procrastination is the, 318 

time you, 204 

to the gallows, with a, 407 
Thievery, 402 
Thieves, 402 

beauty provoketh, 2 1 

for their robbery have authority, 
386 

little and great, 325 
Thimble or a spoon, who stole a, 306 
Thin, and one was, 226 

partitions do their bounds divide, 
24S 

partitions, sense from thought 
divide, 245 

red line of 'eroes, but it's, 180 

to dash through thick and, 72 
Thine, love that says not mine and, 235 

my name once mine, now, 275 

why not I with, 366 
Thing, 402 

a cursed and tainted, 143 

a lovely and a fearful, 435 



an ill-favoured, 263 

apart, of man's life a, 232 

he is, to the, 147 

he,'ll make the, 467 

he would not know, the, 394 

I am not the, 74 

immortal as itself, being a, 223 

is certain, one, 135 



Index 



725 



Thing 

is high, nobly as the, 120 
is lost, whatsoever, 231 
like a guilty, 57 
man is, what a pretty, 251 
of beauty is a joy, 20 
of custom, a, 70 
of God, poetry is itself a, 309 
of life, ruled her like a, 436 
of life, walks the waters like a, 436 
one, was requisite, 266 
she took to quench, 71 
that feeds their fury, 132 
that grieves not, a, 388 
that very, 188 
the play's the, 306 
the self-same, 123 
those letters mean, the, 450 
to be asked for, not a, 3 
to be well done, wish a, 96 
ungained, men prize the, 318 
Things alive, best good-natured, 140 
an' men, an' I 've seen, 40 
are artificial, all, 13 
are at the worst, when, 464 
. . . are neither rich nor rare, the, 

458 
are not what they seem, 222 
are running crossways, for, 53 
are the sons of heaven, 459 
at home are crossways, 292 
at the worst will cease, 464 
be, can such, 56 
but words are, 192 
by their names, call all, 275 
can never die, these, 88 
give place, all other, 209 
God 's sons are, 459 
go wrong, how easily, 203 
happening, in the way of, 1 70 
have long been wrong, because, 422 
I know, the handful o', 330 
in heaven and earth, more, 303 
like that, you know, must be, 425 
like these, lasts like iron for, 441 
misnamed death and existence. 369 
named pants in certain documents, 

294 
of day, good, 282 

that had neuer been neighbours be- 
fore, 16 
that they shall do, earnest of the, 

461 
then necessities, are these, 279 
the sad vicissitudes of, 425 
unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, 

319 
we planned, and the excellent, 431 
won are done, 198 
you worse than senseless, 27 
Think, 402 

all men mortal but themselves, 269 

and act, free to, 220 

him so, because I think him so 327 

him so, is, 191 

how little we, 79 



Think 

if he does really, 425 

I must speak, when I, 453 

it odd, none of those who, 312 

naught a trifle, 414 

not God at all,' 200 

o' Donald mair, nor, 364 

of her mournfully, 454 

of his pension, 301 

of that, my cat, 45 

old men fools, young men, 469 

on all my wrongs, but when I, 423 

one thing, who dares, 218 

our fathers fools, we, 137 

so, at least, we, 405 

that they should lay him, to, 438 

that you will love me still, I, 237 

themselves alive, who, 75 

then you are to-day what yesterday, 
411 

the poetry is dead in an old man, 
don't, 309 

thet killin' ain't perlite, 131 

the truth they needs must, 368 

that one may go, I really, 393 

thousands, perhaps millions, 192 

thy swan a crow, make thee, 394 

too little, who, 396 

upon, little do you, 355 

when preachers tell us all they, 315 

with you, ef we can't, 288 
Thinker has a seat in the first-class 

cars, 3 is 
Thinkest least, perform it when thou, 
429 

thou little, 137 
Thinking, 402 

on fantastic summer's heat, 191 

on the frosty Caucasus, 191 

o't, for, 263 

plain living and high, 229 
Thinks, and he complacently, 366 

as much as he talks, if Brougham, 
423 

he needs, the more he, 279 

he slays, if the red slayer, 368 

himself too soon there, he, 407 

men honest, that, 183 

most, he most lives who, 227 

o' me, and I know she, 251 

the world turns round, 151 

too much, he, 126 

what his heart, 1 74 

what ne'er was, 128 

who can tell what a baby, 15 
Thinness or its thickness, its, 363 
Thin-spun life, slits the, 123 
Third, and that the, 53 

day comes a frost, 164 

to make a, 309 
Thirst, a man can raise a, 392 

in midst of water I complain of, 43 s 

of hate, 171 

of vengeance, the ancestral, 130 

the water that quencheth, 369 

to quench a country's, 248 



726 



Index 



Thirsty, 402 

moments, to cheat the, 288 

plant, to every, 10 1 

tongue, the piercing cider for the, 53 
Thirty, at, man suspects himself a 
fool, 251 

at, we are trying to cut our names, 
275 

days, to wear a shirt for, 361 

years, his dark retreat of, 288 
Thompson in, caved the head of, 141 
Thomson, O, void of rhyme as well as 

reason, 382 
Thorn, 402, 403 

as sharp to them as, 419 

flower and, 224 

withering on the virgin, 342 
Thorn-bit of marriage, the terrible, 

Thorns, 403 

and briers, who found not, 374 

and to those, 270 

a rosebud set with little wilful, 343 

so roses grow on, 403 
Thorn-tree had a mind to Him, the, 

458 
Thorny stem of time, on the, 143 
Those days, those days, 74 
Thou beside me, 85 
Thought, 403 

and passion, chaos of, 462 

as a sage, he, 346 

by hidden nerves, he shoots his, 86 

can rise, what bolder, 411 

capable of sober, 262 

Christ went agin war an' pillage, 43 1 

dare to vent his dang'rous, 397 

divide, sense from, 245 

even with a, 56 

fly like, 171 

for reposeful, 229 

for want of, 440 

from self each, 233 

his act, nor any unproportioned, 411 

his mind a, 248 

in all the magnanimity of, 251 

I never, that they would shave, 326 

in loftiness of, 309 

is destroyed by, 33 

like dew upon a, 192 

men of, 225 

more easily be, 166 

noble, enhances life and all its 
chances, 284 

of his daughter War, he, 432 

of love, lightly turns to, 241 

of the morrow, we bitterly, 313 

runs before her actions, a woman 's, 
453 

she lived with no other, 246 

strange perversity of, 159 

teems with, 231 

thedome of, 367 

their monody compels, solemn, 410 

the pale cast of, 61 

ihere was no more behind, 411 



Thought 

thy wish was father to that, 446 

to rear the tender, 398 

unworthy of a, 419 

upon a, 133 

was mine, what I once, 333 

what oft was, 447 

whose armour is his honest, 418 

with but a single, 224 

wrought by want of, 116 
Thought's a weapon stronger, 159 

mysterious seat, was, 367 
Thoughts, 403, 404 

all passions, all, 234 

are legible, whose, 117 

beyond the reaches of our souls, 268 

be your fair pillow, fair, 304 

by great, and good deeds, 248 

by the pattern of mine own, 321 

conceived, but never penned, 434 

distract his troubled, 178 

immaculate, 29 

intent, on hospitable, 187 

not breaths, in, 227 

no tongue, give thy, 411 

of men are widened, 322 

of mortality, no less are, 269 

of my age, 5 

of others, 51 

of the last bitter hour, when, 362 

of youth are long, 33 

once chambered here, the, 367 

pansies, that 's for, 294 

remain below, my, 313 

style is the dress of, 391 

that arise in me, 35 

that shall glad the two or three, 466 

that wander through eternity, 90 

unruly, with, 348 

were high and fine, my, 98 

words without, 313 
Thousand charms to show, 143 

claims to reverence, 323 

crimes, and a, 64 

doors, death hath a, 79 

eyes, the mind has a, 281 

eyes, the night has a, 281 

fearful wrecks, a, 102 

furlongs of sea, give a, 354 

homes', homeless near a, 182 

knights, a, 179 

leaves, open their, 382 

lines, dry desert of a, 364 

liveried angels lackey her, 47 

may well be stopped by three, 37 

men, were worth a, 39 

miles from land are we, a, 334 

others feed, what would, 300 

pities then, what a, 2 

pound, do I owe you a, 292 

several tongues, hath a, 61 

strings, a harp of, 170 

tables, and near a, 182 

times, borne me on his back a, 468 

times he swore, a, 329 

times told, better a, 203 



Index 



727 



Thousand tongues, music of, 412 
voices, earth with her, 154 
waiting upon that, 83 
wars of old, ring out the, 434 
worlds are round, when, 463 
years, but for a, 355 
years, memory of a, 72 
years ago, died a, 75 
years of fire, bitterer than a, 83 
years of peace, ring in the, 300 
years, partridge-breeders of a, 231 
years scarce serve to form a state, 

3S5 
years, we have fed our sea for a, 113 
years, whose flag has braved a, no 

Thousandfold, good or bad, a, 157 

Thousands had sunk on the ground 
overpowered, 39 
has been slave to, 275 
mourn, makes countless, 192 
slays, war its, 431 
that which makes, 192 
to murder, 272 
with a single fall, startles, 81 

Thraldom or a double strife, the single, 
442 

Thread, cut the mortal, 75 
feels at each, 380 
hinders needle and, 438 
of his verbosity, the, 424 
of it, the utmost, 380 
plying her needle and, 360 
sewing at once with a double, 362 
the postern of a small needle 's eye, 

42 
the slight, self-pleasing, 353 
your iron, 152 

Threads, smooth the few silver, 340 

Threaten or indulge, can, 377 

Threatening to devour me, 178 

Threatens, of one who, 17S 

Threats, 404 

Three, a thousand may well be stopped 
by, 37 
cheers for this Christmas old, give, 

corners of the world, 112 

corpses lay out on the shining sands, 

132 
farthings, the Latin word for, 332 
feeds, 181 . 

fishers went sailing, 132 
good men unhanged in England, 

not, 259 
hundred pounds a year, 128 
kingdoms, God had sifted, 276 
meet again, when shall we, 257 
misbegotten knaves in Kendal 

green, 205 
ought to have dined at, 92 
poets in three distant ages, 309 
removes are as bad as a fire, 332 
than we did of being, 241 
the king amang us, 201 
thousand ducats, lend, 95 
thousand ducats, to receive, 103 



Three thousand years ago, as was said, 
199 

times eight large diamonds, 73 

years before the war, 162 
Three-hooped pot, the, 130 
Three-legged stool, with a, 59 
Three-man beetle, with a, 22 
Threescore years and ten, keeps in 

blast, 28 
Threshed the Bolivar out across the 

Bay, 54 
Threshold of the ruined tenement, 44 
Threw me down, ambition, 7 

me higher, by overthrowing me, you, 
316 

their caps, they, 43 
Thrice ere the morning I dreamt it 
again, 427 

he routed all his foes, 19 

is he armed, 12 

the brinded cat hath mewed, 45 

thy fee, 381 

thy shaft flew, 12 

yon moon had filled her horn, ere, 12 
Thrift, 404 

may follow fawning, where, 412 

my well-won, 193 

thus charitable, 265 
Thrifty mind, stale in, 126 
Thrill, and feel a, 133 

fresh wild, 33 

loving is a painful, 243 

of joy prophetic, runs a, 143 

of life, seems to feel the, 200 

thee with its warning, 115 

will fondly, 237 
Thrills the fond soul, 236 
Thrive by dirty ways, 92 

at Number Five, arts that, 13 

at Westminster, we, 292 

in cunning, to, 88 
Thrived, was the ones thet, 40 
Thriving lie, a party, or a, 42 

ones, sickly trees not, 425 
Throat, Amen stuck in my, 8 

ever scuttled ship or cut a, 262 

the fog in my, 78 

you lie in your, 2T9 
Throat-gates, morsel that stuffs him 

to the, 92 
Throats, 404 

had hanging at them, whose, 88 

whose rude, 125 

with harness on their, 100 
Throb she gives, the only, 143 
Throbbed beneath that leathern 
breast, 174 

no longer, till the war-drum, 433 
Throbbings, the heart of the toiler has, 

410 
Throe, never grudge the, 328 
Throes, has Fate entailed the mother 's, 

Throne, 404 

above, from Allah's, 231 
above, I dare not, 160 



728 



Index 



Throne 

amid the mart, to your, 413 

and makes his, 317 

a rank, a, 462 

her seat, made the, 265 

nearer the great white, 278 

of kings, this royal, 112 

of royal state, 107 

of the world, to the, 339 

one, 133 , 

sent word to a, 276 

wade through slaughter to a, 368 

wherever sinks a, 144 

wrong for ever on the, 417 
Thrones and globes elate, o'er, 385 

without, tents with love or, 85 
Throng, when mingling in the, 443 
Through, when thou art, 78 
Throw at a dog, not one to, 95 

it up into the air, 389 

physic to the dogs, 303 
Throwest, set less than thou, 362 
Thrown a gem unheeded, thou hast, 

u I49 

by angry Jove, 122 

upon that die is, 435 
Thrust in among the works, that one 
could, 403 

it aside, she tried ... to, 449 

them into matters none of theirs, 
who, 285 

upon 'em, greatness, 164 
Thumb, 404 

to his wrist, gave a, 3 1 1 
Thumbs, 404 

I twirl my, 284 
Thumps, 405 
Thunder, 405 

lightning, or in rain, in, 257 

loud roared the dreadful, 26 

riven, then shook the hills with, 13 

the dawn comes up like, 252 

to the tune of Green Sleeves, 311 
Thunderbolt, innocents 'scape not the, 
193 

the brightest, 41 
Thunder-clap at death, a, 123 
Thundered, lightened and hailed, 389 

volleyed and, 42 
Thundering on the reef, roller, 341 
Thunder-music, rolling, 291 
Thus or thus, that we are, 127 
Thwack, 405 
Thwarted and withstood, 64 

love, in bad temper oft has vent, 
_ 235 

Thyme blows, where the wild, 17 
Tiber in 't, not a drop of allaying, 445 

where'er down, 184 
Ticket, and the Fellow 's, 345 
Tickle us, if you, 197 

your catastrophe, I '11, 45 
Tickled with a straw, 49 

with good success, 392 
Tickling, 405 
Tick-tock, tick-tock, 280 



Tide, 405 

and the taintless, 247 

but such a, 18 

I 'm afloat on the fierce rolling, 4 

in the affairs of men, 405 

is at his highest height, 18 

is in his ecstasy, 18 

look to be washed off the next, 465 

lost in the dashing, 339 

of love, pity swells the, 305 

of times, in the, 250 

one moment flow, let the, 82 

parted from us by a, no 

without a, 200 
Tides, and her bay-, 32 

betwixt two, 222 

dark flow thy, 354 

of life, these struggling, 322 
Tidings, confirm the, 216 

up and down, send the, 23 
Tie, a careless shoe-string in whose, 
364 

as though there were a, 311 

love endures no, 302 

the silken, 237 

to him doth, 335 

up the knocker, 206 
Tied or manacled, not, 381 
Ties, at sight of human, 233 
Tiger, 405 

die, let the ape and, 20 

like the shark and, 256 

passions were in us, when the, 392 

than there is milk in a male, 260 

the Hyrcan, 72 
Tiger *s heart wrapped in a woman 's 
hide, 453 

spring, their revenge is as the, 455 
Tight little island, a, 194 
Tile to scullery, shrills from, 253 
Tilt at all I meet, and, 350 
Timber, headed with a knob of, 249 
Timber 's propped, with one of, 216 
Timbrel, 405 
Time, 406, 407 

aboding luckless,_ 25 

agree, never did in, 429 

all of the olden, 149 

and change, 154 

and me, tell her that wastes her, 343 

and our oars keep, 286 

and place shall serve, 13 

and the long result of, 352 

as this, in such a, 289 

at last sets all things even, 467 

bed becomes a bed of, 151 

be not coy but use your, 254 

but on the shores of, 138 

by heart-throbs, count, 227 

choose thine own, 220 

come to thy God in, 155 

could we choose the, 89 

dissolve the winter snow, 233 

doth not breathe, 209 

draws near the birth of Christ, 23, 52 

enough, in we came an', 115 



Index 



729 



Time 

fleets, youth fades, 2 2p 

tor all, 4 

foremost captain of his, 43 

for orchard-robbing, then's the, 386 

gave us liberty at the same, 217 

has come, the walrus said, 430 

has pressed, rolling, 333 

held his breath for a, 364 

I am sick of, 333 

'ill be the happiest, 256 

in the book of, 142 

is fleeting, 163 

is like a fashionable host, 167 

is racked with birth-pangs, the, 416 

is ripe and rotten-ripe, 46 

I think 's sufficient at one, 33s 

it spoils the pleasure of the, 307 

let not a drop be spilt, 78 

like this, a, 259 

makes ancient good uncouth, 281 

may have their throats about them 
at that, 464 

men at some, 127 

of day, no proper, 285 

of need, for her, 277 

of night, now it is the, 28 2 

of night, the very witching, 282 

of peace, in this weak piping, 300 

of universal peace is near, the, 299 

old, is still a-flying, 343 

old common arbitrator, 109 

on the sands of, 138 

on the thorny stem of, 143 

prime, 115 

quaffing and unthinking, 71 

return, bid, 468 

saltness of, 5 

shall come, yet the, 38 

shall lead him to his end, 267 

shall make the bushes green, 233 

soon will come, the, 390 

spend their, in making nets, 280 

taught by, 174 

terror was the, 99 

that, 74 

the glass of, 241 

the last syllable of recorded, 411 

the lazy foot of, 56 

there is limitless, 178 

there was a, 331 

there was ere England 's griefs be- 
gan, 166 

the thief of. 318 

the whips and scorns of, 323 

this great gap of, 370 

though it sleep a, 28 

to dance is not to woo, 456 

to fear when tyrants seem to kiss, 
419 

to marry, but proper, 254 

to time, men have died from, 238 

to waste, men in earnest have no, 
416 

turn backward, 0, 340 

unto this season, from that, 335 



Time 

unveils eternity, when, 411 

watch the, and always serve it, 392 

were twins, nature and, 277 

when screech-owls cry, the, 352 

with falling oars they kept the, 286 

youth and home and that sweet, 23 

you thief, 204 
Timepiece says to all, an ancient, 280 
Time's great wilderness, in, 222 

noblest offspring, 109 

tragedy is in that aching stoop, 188 
Times, 407 

corsair 's name to other, 64 

have been, the, 90 

in the tide of, 250 

new, demand new measures and 
new men, 281 

O, 74 

of general calamity, 41 

of old, in, 69 

old, old manners, 290 

resign his own at, 159 

that try men's souls, the, 378 

the weakness of these latter, 43 7 

till other, 114 

which cause good or evil, 317 
Time-tutored age, 65 
Timid, 408 

Tinker, I can drink with any, 100 
Tinkle in the icy air of night, how 

they, 23 
Tinkling of the bells, the jingling and 

the, 408 
Tintagel chime, rang out, 155 
Tintinnabulation, 408 
Tints are very much like, 5 
Tiny kickshaws, any pretty little, 201 
Tipped with amber, when, 408 
Tippeny, wi', we fear nae evil, 19 
Tipple in the deep, fishes that, 133 
Tips with silver, that, 268 
Tire of all creation, the, 188 
Tired he sleeps, till, 49 

her wing, when she has, 344 

limbs with travel, 2 1 

wench and coming butter, 429 
Tires him, self-mettle, 9 

inamiie-a, 174 
Tirling at the window, 443 
Titillating joys, knows he the, 285 
Tittering on, comes, 228 
Title, who gained no, 385 

without that, 275 
Title-leaf, like to a, 38 
Titles, all thy other, 137 

high though his, 65 

now are altered strangely, 407 

power and pelf, despite those, 65 

wealth and fame, 334 
To and fro. kept heaving, 36 

be. or not to be, 19 
Toad, 408 

in his cell, like a, 446 

or live like the, 446 

ugly and venomous, 3 



736 



Index 



Toads went pop, the, 372 
Toast cheese, it will, 48 

pass, let the, 210 
Tobacco, 408 

and sleep, snuff, 187 

I want a chaw of, 404 
Tocsin of the soul, the, 92 
To-day, 408, 409 

and shall be done, 96 

be dark, though, 186 

be wise, 84 

can make to-morrow cheerful as, 
400 

he puts forth, 164 

it is our pleasure, 102 

man is, 364 

official sinning, is, 289 

such a day to-morrow as, 411 

the darkness of, 48 

to-morrow shall be like, 411 

we must measure twenty miles, 262 

what yesterday you were, 411 

who dies, 75 

yet say No, 468 
Toddy, and drink the, 321 
Toe, 409 

a Hottentot's great, 266 

of frog, and, 179 
Toes, to warm his, 207 
Together, 409 

cannot live, 5 

in doubt we'll go, 377 

we've been long, 220 
Toil, 409 

and effort, the life of, 389 

and strife, hour of danger, 39 

and trouble, unapt to, 456 

and trouble, war . . . is, 431 

for her, to work and, 189 

for triumphs of an hour, 104 

is holy service, honest, 459 

mock their useful, 310 

o'er books, hath thy, 215 

of dropping buckets, 39 

of unrequited, 199 

or from bitter, 390 

weary with, 21 

we lost, the, 451 
Toiled with men, I have lived and, 259 
Toiler, 410 
Toilet, 410 
Toiling, 410 

upward in the night, 177 
Token, may be a, 377 

watch for the lightest, 293 
Told, great grief e will not be, 166 

her love, she never, 298 

lest her secret should be, 277 

the sexton, they went and, 2 2 
Toledo trusty, the trenchant blade, 26 
Tolerable and not to be endured, most, 

434 
Toll, 410 

Tolled the bell, the sexton, 22 
Tolling, 410 
Tolls out, the minster bell, 264 



Tolls the knell, the curfew, 69 

the evening chime, faintly as, 286 
Tom, 410 

bears logs, and, 190 
Tom - all - Alone 's, other gentlemen 

come down, 314 
Tomb, 410 

asleep within the, 222 

beyond the, 209 

blazoned on the stately, 264 

cradles rock us nearer to the, 81 

e'en from the, 35 

encompass the, 163 

is found, where the Redeemer's, 328 

meet again beyond the, 61 

on the, 252 

seated in the vacant, 338 

shall break the mortal bondage of 
the, 3S3 

thus it might upon the, 329 

upon my, 114 

vampire which from Freedom's, 64 
Tombs, 410 

in the, 101 

of those who have reflected honour, 

Tome, he shut the ponderous, 263 
Tommy, 410 

'ow's yer soul, 180 
Tom 's food for seven long year, have 

been, 261 
To-morrow, 411 

blossoms, 164 

but one more, 79 

cheerful as to-day, make, 400 

defer not till, 84 

do thy worst, 408 

dupe of, 92 

he is gone, 364 

in that great, glad, 94 

is Saint Valentine 's Day, 422 

knows no, 155 

let my sun his beams display, 408 

live till, 86 

'11 be the happiest time, 256 

morn, I 'm off at eight, 132 

never leave that till, 408 

our jaunt must be put off, 324 

shows the bright, 48 

sunburst may smile on thee, 186 

you '11 be sick, 362 
To-morrows, and confident, 48 
Ton, none couldn't quicker pitch a, 

249 
Tone, but rather the general, 308 

could reach the rich, would that its, 
361 

its various, 172 
Tones, in divers, 170 

sweet, are remembered not, 209 
Tongs, sure the shovel and, 441 
Tongue, 411, 412 

all who speak the English, in 

alone, formed by one, 412 

and braggart with my, 399 

and free quill, Britons have a, 1 10 



Index 



73i 



Tongue 

and pen, if of all words of, 346 

could utter, that my, 35 

cutteth friendship al a-two, a, 412 

deedless in his, 84 

dropped manna, though his, 122 

every, brings in, 61 

faster than his, 118 

flatteries of his, 134 

gall in the slanderous, 42 

if with his, 454 

in it, that skull had a, 367 

is the clapper, 174 

laid a curse upon his, 283 

midnight bell with his iron, 22 

more richer than my, 238 

murder, though it have no, 272 

never in the, 196 

of dog, 179 

of fire, must be the, 314 

of flame, like the volcano 's, 24 

of midnight, the iron, 262 

of war, the harsh and boisterous, 
432 

o' man can name, the, 457 

or pen, of all sad words of, 346 

or pen, saddest of, 346 

outvenoms, whose, 368 

see what a ready, 394 

speaks, his, 174 

sword, eye,_ 263 

take her without her, 10 

that man that hath a, 454 

the piercing cider for the thirsty, 53 

think with wagging of your, 378 

trippingly on the, 379 

truly the only, 314 

truth on every shepherd's, 237 

vows, lends the, 429 

which his fair, 196 

while listening senates hang upon 
thy, n 

with unholy, 67 
Tongued with censure, more, 165 
Tongueless, one good deed dying, 83 
Tongues, 412 

a thousand several, 61 

and evil, 116 

done to death by slanderous, 368 

in trees, 3 

of dying men, 105 

of men are full, 82 

to silence envious, 299 
To-night, a child again just for, 340 

dream of money-bags, 98 
Too heavy for a man, 40 

late, after dying all reprieve's, 59 

late, that comfort comes, 59 

much of a good thing, 159 
Took and gave, blessed be he who, 164 

my friend, with her, 57 

the ground, when she, 166 
Tool, the mysteries of that magic, 467 
Tools, sin has many, 218 
Tooth is not so keen, thy, 444 

sharper than a serpent 's, 49 



Toothache, 413 

he that sleeps feels not the, 371 
Toots his horn, south wind that, 132 
Top of my bent, they fool me to the, 

137 
Topics furnish, the, 455 
Topmost height, from the Heaven 's, 
28 

roof, ever upon the, 112 
Tops, all the fruit-tree, 268 

I used to think their slender, 331 
Torch is at thy temple door, his, 255 
Torment, no, is so bad as love, 232 

than a hermit 's fast, more grievous. 
23S 

through joy and through, 236 
Torments, of all the, 339 
Torn by dogs, liable to be, 292 

ne'er from it to be, 377 
Torrent of a woman 's will, to stem the, 
45o 

of tears, by a, 389 

tempest, for in the very, 379 
Torture, and boil in endless, 436 

and trouble in vain, 230 

as real, is theirs, 45s 

may be called a hell, 178 

to us a, 398 
Tory, I ain't a, 42 
Toss to hell, he will, 178 
Tossed from a pitchfork, hay, 166 

on the thorny bed of pain, 293 

you down into the field. 207 
Tossing about on the roaring sea. 354 
Toted him, scooped down and, 404 
Touch, dares not put it to the, 126 

God's right hand, 156 

her not scornfully. 454 

him further, nothing can, 223 

if aught do, 380 

it again with immortality, 467 

much, us 

not a single bough, 457 

of a vanished hand, for the, 169 

of fire, asunder at the, 38 

of God, pity is the, 305 

of holy bread, as the, 205 

of infinite calm, with a, 374 

of nature, one, 278 

our country, they, 368 

pitch, they that, 401 

remain, where shall the angel's, 91 

soiled by any outward, 417 

that cheek, might, 47 

the fire, to, 120 

them on, hard enough to, 458 

the spider's, 380 

the underpinnin', don't never, 39 

which in Death 's, 76 

wound with a, 350 
Touched corruption, he has, 36 

him, God's finger, 371 

me for ten, 346 

not rashly to be, 304 

the dead corpse, he, 340 

with joy, they bring me sorrow, 470 



732 



Index 



Touches the flesh, 77 
us not, it, 195 

Touching of the lips, at the, 226 

Touchstone, man 's true, 41 
on war 's red, 19 

Tough, 413 

conscience was, 183 

Tougher or truer, there is no, 307 

Tower, 413 

from yonder ivy-mantled, 292 
in Siloam fell, the, 193 
of strength, king 's name is a, 202 
people this lonely, 367 

Towered citadel, a, 56 

Towering in her pride of place, 121 

Towers, clashed and hammered from 
a hundred, 284 
the cloud-capped, 428 
the earth builds . . . castles and, 
106 

Town and state, wasting, 325 
ere you went to, 1 74 
he had cleaned out the, 350 
man made the, 64 
of monks and bones, a, 387 
or city, through the centre of every, 

15 
procured from, 349 
red, paint the, 102 
to town, fling the joy from, 23 
view the manners of the, 413 
watching them out of the, 132 
wee Willie Winkie rins through the, 

443 
who will never come back to the, 
132 

Town-crier, as lief the, 379 

Towns, for want of, 252 

seven wealthy, contend, 183 

Toy, my heart was every woman 's, 148 

Toys of age, 49 

Trace, fondly stoops to, 295 
his works we, 154 
of him afford no other, 228 
of its passage, leaves some, 138 
of record here, have left one, 367 
the boding tremblers learned to, 93 
the stars, to, 402 
with mocking pencil wont to, 225 

Traced in sand, thy vows are, 450 
in sand, whose name was, 274 
the lives of the good men, that, 301 
to earth 's earliest years, whose 

pedigree, 300 
with his golden pen, 418 

Track of his fiery car, by the bright, 
393 
the steps of glory to the grave, 152 

Tracks, they have been and made 
their, 437 

Tract, 413 

while there is one untrodden, 220 

Trade, 413 

in all the shops of, 386 

left no calling for this idle, 466 

oh, the sorry, 82 



Trade 

or employment, no, 180 

plies corruption's, 64 

war is a terrible, 43 2 

wax, mingling poetic honey with, 
308 
Traders, 413 

a nation of, 361 
Tradition 's force upheld the truth, by, 

416 
Tragedian, counterfeit the deep, 307 
Tragedy, and some compose a, 146 

time 's, 188 
Tragic volume, nature of a, 38 
Trail of the serpent is over them all, 

356 
Trailing clouds of glory, 25 

like a wounded duck, 54 
Train, glorious woman in its, 444 

they love a, 448 

up a fig-tree, 131 
Traitor, and graceless, 454 

most accursed, is the, 188 

rest, shall the, 83 

to humanity, the, 188 
Traitorous kiss, not she with, 67 
Traitor 's smile, the, 384 
Traitors, our doubts are, 97 
Traitors' arms, more strong than, 192 
Tramping over the heather, go, 361 
Trample my fellow worm, helping to, 
177 

round my fallen head, to, 76 

the world, to, 449 
Trampled back to shapeless earth, 107 

foe, as soon for a, 173 
Trampling out the vintage, he is, 153 
Tranquil mind, farewell the, 125 
Transept, in the great minster, 264 
Transfigured into angel guise, 416 
Transfigures you and me, 225 
Transform life, the desire to, 190 
Transgressing, have some times by,2i3 
Transition, what seems so is, 76 
Transmute, leaden metal into gold, 

162 
Transport know, can ne'er a, 448 
Trappings and the suits of woe, 448 

of a monarchy, the, 266 
Trash, so much, 36 

their vile, 267 

who steals my purse steals, 275 
Travail, had my labour for my, 208 
Travel, some minds improve by, 276 

those types of, 401 

tired, limbs with, 21 

too, we must, 72 

twice as far as he, 429 

with long, 413 
Travels in divers paces, time, 406 
Traveller, 413 

no, ever reached that blessed abode, 
3 74 

returns, no, 79 
Traverse the pole or the zone, 112 
Tray, Branch and Sweetheart, 95 



Index 



733 



Tre. Pol and Pen, by, 63 
Treacle, the fly that sips, 39s 
Tread alone, that I must, 387 

doth close behind him, 128 

each other 's heel, they, 448 

if we will but, 170 

is on an empire 's dust, 109 

it down, 103 

on classic ground, 55 

onward to your throne, and, 413 

our fairy ring, to, 304 

the globe, all that, 74 

upon another 's heels, one woe doth, 
448 

upon, beetle that we, 80 

wheels rush in where horses fear to, 
439 

where angels fear to, 138 

where'er we, 181 
Treads alone some banquet-hall de- 
serted, 17 

leads, 44 

not the earth, 150 

on flowers, that only, 406 

on high, and, 312 

on life, life, 220 
Treason, 414 

can but peep to what it would, 202 

cannot commit, 64 

has done his worst, 223 

while bloody, 121 
Treasons, stratagems and spoils, 273 
Treasure, Bacchus' blessings are a, 16 

back, will bring the, 149 

for those who seek the, 462 

have gathered their, 367 

rich the, 16 

what men call, 102 
Treasure-caves and cells, in thy, 354 
Treasured up, to a life beyond life, 30 
Treasurer, of course, 92 
Treasures up a wrong, of him who, 467 

you learn the extent of your, 366 
Treasury stairs, the Jacob 's ladder of 

the, 32S 
Treat a poor wretch, to, 360 

existence is a merry, 147 

it as he will, yet all his own to, 107 

O herbaceous, 349 
Treble, turning again toward childish, 

294 
Tree, 414 

Adam sat under the, 13 

a hale green, 286 

and highest, the middle, 63 

fruit of that forbidden, 93 

give me again my hollow, 217 

have robbed the whole, 115 

in his banner that glances, 49 

of deepest root, the, 224 

of Knowledge, fast by the, 63 

of Life, and on the, 63 

on my ancestral, 342 

sat down beneath our, 182 

that bears no fruit, the, 147 

the old, is leafless in the forest, 290 



Tree 

there sits a bird on every, 254 

they don't make a, 308 

under the greenwood, 165 

with splendid branches, like a, 461 

woodman, spare that, 457 

Zaccheus he did climb the, 470 
Tree's inclined, the, 107 
Trees, and on the, 27s 

are brown, and all the, 290 

are green, and all the, 469 

gather on sickly, 425 

like leaves on, 250 

on all the hills, all the, 382 

tempests shook down, 25 

their medicinal gum, Arabian, 399 

tongues in, 3 

under the shade of the, 333 

upon 't, with, 56 
Trelawney die, and shall, 63 
Tremble, 414 

and start, 307 

made all England, 87 

shall never, 72 
Trembled, and the land, 147 

kissing, and, 205 
Tremblers learned to trace, the bo- 
ding, 93 
Trembles when he sees, Satan, 350 

in the breast, that, 313 

when his hand, 309 
Trembling all about the breezy dells, 

as the dew, 245 

on from east to west, 143 

the chord of self, 241 

vassal of the Pole, 60 

waked, I, 98 

wings misdoubteth every bush, 25 
Trench, this working in the dismal, 40 
Trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, the, 

26 
Trencher-man, 414 
Tresses man 's imperial race ensnare, 

168 
Tresspass is it, tell me what, 298 
Trial hath no fear, of his, 5 

perusing a, 423 
Tribe, enough to scour a, 266 

his, were God Almighty's gentle- 
men, 51 

sufferance is the badge of all our, 
392 
Tribes, a handful to the, 74 
Tribute, craves no other, 189 

pays his, 36 
Trice, alchemist that in a, 162 
Trick, 414 

Nick Machiavel had ne'er a, 281 

of our English nation, 160 

may upset a freight-train of con- 
versation, 321 

yet it is our, 399 
Trickled, 414 
Tricks, his tenures and his, 214 

plays such fantastic, 251 



734 



Index 



Tricks that are vain, 50 
Tried, both leal and, 57 

by fire, gold must be, 158 

by whom the new are, 126 

that has been, 427 
Trier to Coin there was never a knight, 

from, 221 
Tries the troth in everything, time, 

407 
Trifle, 414 

in removing this, 308 
Trifles, a series of, 219 

a snapper-up of unconsidered, 372 

life, and, 414 

light as air, 19s 
Trim, in gallant, 470 

no carpet knight so, 46 
Trimming, while the bonnet is, 211 
Trinkets had been hallowed, as if my, 

415 
Trip is done, our fearful, 43 

it as you go, come and, 409 

on it, once you, 7 1 

you 're running, you, 220 
Trippingly on the tongue, 379 
Trips, that the rich by easy, 176 
Triton, 414 

or hear old, 293 
Triumph advances, the chief who in, 49 

and power, take me with, 392 

tasted, thet tell o', 299 

wins the splendid ultimate, 390 

wrong would, 337 
Triumphed, Jehovah has, 405 
Triumphs of an hour, toil for, 104 

over death, revenge, 77 
Trivial, 414 
Trod, by equal feet are, 464 

one nearer to God's altar, 312 

the ground, blessed feet have, 328 

the soil where first they, 464 

the ways of glory, 140 

too heedless where I, 177 

upon a worm, I, 271 
Trodden down with stones, 15 

on, will turn being, 463 

out, little fire is quickly, 131 
Troll out for Christmas stout, song I, 
51 

the bowl, 32 
Troop, farewell the plumed, 125 

of little children at my heels, 167 

was landed in my country, foreign, 8 
Troop-sergeant-major, late, 301 
Trope, but out there flew a, 335 
Trot, in a jolly round, 298 

withal, who doth he, 406 
Troth in everything, time tries the, 
407 

two bosoms and one, 174 

wooing light makes fickle, 456 
Trots hard with a young maid, he, 407 

withal, who time, 406 
Troubadours, 414 

Trouble afterwards, may be avoided, 
96 



Trouble, charm of powerful, 179 

in vain, torture and, 230 

little Caty-did, 200 

of my own, filled with a, 295 

unapt to toil and, 456 

war ... is toil and, 431 

you, did she mean to, 200 
Troubled mind drave me to walk 
abroad, 393 

the dead man 's grave, I who have, 
448 

with a rat, if my house be, 325 
Troubles, a sea of, 19 

enough of its own, but has, 212 

himself little about a million men, 

, 259 
of the brain, the written, 263 
Troublesome, and in the last repeat- 
ing, 400 
Troubling, the wicked cease from, 334 
Trout, and though it be a two-foot, 
168 
that must be caught with tickling, 

, 4 ° s 
Trowel, 415 

Trowest, learn more than thou, 362 
Troy, fired another, 177 

in ashes, laid at last old, 452 
Truant at his tale, play, 196 

husband should return, and, 189 

in the law, a, 213 
Truce, our bugles sang, 39 
Truckle-bed, to lie in honour's, 184 
Trudged along, unknowing what he 

sought, 440 
Trudging my weary way, I'm, 310 
True, 415 

all men's faces are, 119 

alms which the hand can hold, no, 7 

a lover as ever sighed, 242 

and if thou still art, 340 

and leal, all men, 150 

and righteous altogether, are, 199 

and tender, she nursed me, 286 

as death, a woman as, 451 

as steel, heart is, 174 

as the dial to the sun, 88 

as the needle to the pole, 88 

as the sun, 245 

as what you once let fall, nothing 
so, 455 

a valiant man and, 105 

before, that which was proved, 95 

by your truth she shall be, 468 

citizen, true Christian is the, 54 

dare to be, 218 

do rest but, 112 

face, has a, 119 

hearts, the, 175 

he serves all who dares be, 415 

look thou be, 70 

love, the course of, 238 

lover in the forest, no, 56 

love's the gift, 237 

makes it, 368 

man, to be no, 401 



Index 



735 



True 

more tender and more, 401 

one to another, when thieves cannot 
be, 402 

patriots all, 64 

plain single vow that is vowed, 417 

ring in the, 122 

steadfast in the strength of God and, 
179 

to church and state, than be, 213 

to man, he 's true to God who 's, 249 

to one party, he 's been, 62 

valour, in a false quarrel there is no, 
423 
Trueborn Englishman, yet a, 113 
True-fixed and resting quality, 62 
True-hearted, I swear he is, 438 
True-love hath my heart, my, 235 

I had a, 57 
Truer, there is no tougher or, 307 
Truest poetry is the most feigning, 309 

the nearest, and dearest, 146 
Truly blent, beauty, 2 1 

mourn, they, 271 
Trump, the shrill, 125 

to wait for the final, 77 

when the great, 115 
Trumped death's ace for me, he, 77 
Trumpet, 415 

and drum, broken by, 390 

his own, 320 

when the loud, 353 
Trumps, 415 

Truncheon, the marshal 's, 260 
Trundling her mop, 296 
Trunks of men, into the, 378 
Trust, 415 

and woman 's, 450 

by an unfaltering, 227 

committed to my, 422 

her not, 24 

in critics, before you, 67 

in God, put your, 311 

in God and good books, I, 3 1 

in her always, doth safely, 451 

is, safe and sound your, 450 

me more, never, 372 

me not at all or all in all, 275 

must serve with perfect, 357 

my fate to thee, before I, 127 

my trust, thy, 104 

no future howe'er pleasant, 147 

not a man, 83 

not the physician, 303 

not those cunning waters of his eyes, 
426 

or plan, thy purpose, 391 

our necks, should, 311 

take them O Father in immortal, 13 

that man in nothing, 62 

to him, and I, 352 
Trusted, let no such man be, 273 

not in one bottom, 424 

to thy billows, 288 
Trustees of the people, officials, 289 
Trusting wife, gentle loving, 443 



Trusts himself to woman or to waves, 
who, 452 

the strength, who, 389 

to one poor hole, 271 
Trusty, Toledo, the trenchant blade, 26 
Truth, 415-418 

a land of .... 65 

a lie which is half a, 219 

and love, light, 403 

and loyalty, with, 243 

and never tell the, 187 

and spread the, 216 

brightness, purity and, 452 

by your, she shall be true, 468 

cannon-balls may aid the, 159 

can poison, 412 

can tell, 218 

cleared some great, 9 1 

convinced at sight, whose, 447 

dreams of love and, 88 

enough for man to know, 427 

for they breathe, 105 

forced me out of thy honest, 399 

from his lips prevailed, 352 

has such a face, 425 

I hold it, 170 

in masquerade, but the, 218 

in the pure shrine of, 269 

is marching on, his, 153 

is noble, to side with, 34 

is old, the, 249 

makes free, whom the, 144 

malice bears down, 247 

may be, tell how the, 396 

may stay, which some, 120 

modest, and beauty save, 449 

of its own fundamental proposition, 
8 

one, is clear, 338 

one bosom and one, 174 

on every shepherd 's tongue, 237 

one who having into, 219 

sole judge of, 462 

that warp us from the living, 470 

they needs must think, the, 368 

this I set down as a positive, 25s 

to be a liar, 9 7 

well known to most, 231 

were a fool, you would think, 218 

who would keep abreast of, 281 

wine and, is the saying, 444 

with Falsehood, strife of, 83 

wut 's words to them whose faith an', 
19 

yet friend to, 385 
Truth 's yet mightier man-child, 115 
Truths, 418 

there are some, 122 
Truth-teller, 418 
Try men's souls, that,_ 378 

one desperate medicine more, to, 86 

our fortunes, 141 

the man, let the end, 251 

us, decidedly can, 172 
Trying to cut our names, at thirty we 
are, 275 



736 



Index 



Trysting-place in the forest, at their, 
_ 339 
Tub, 418 

Tug of war, then was the, 165 
Tumble down, ready with every nod 
to, 346 

down, sceptre and crown must, 103 
Tumbles, a' plays and, 133 
Tumbling, a pigeon, 219 
Tumult and the shouting dies, 139 

thrown into, 377 
Tune, all were singing out of, 9 

and harsh, out of, 327 

of Green Sleeves, thunder to the, 
311 

on the heart, memory plays an old, 
258 

our voices keep, 286 

singeth a quiet, 37 

that they play, from the, 112 

up, and prepares to, 210 
Turbulency tells, their, 5 
Turf, a grass-green, 75 

lay white on the, 386 

that wraps their clay, to bless the, 
34 

to smell to a, 269 

where heaves the, 108 
Turk, along with the barbarous, 451 
Turkey, hot as a basted, 286 
Turkey-cock, 418 
Turkman 's rest, or the, 408 
Turn again, and pass and, 368 

and dance her, 7 1 

and fly, 28 

and go, grieve and they, 329 

down an empty glass, 152 

Fortune, turn thy wheel, 141 

him about, and, 304 

his blow, perhaps may, 145 

in their, 216 

may, and fight another day, 130 

religions take their, 330 

that he can take hold of and, 279 

the current of a woman's will, to, 
450 

the leaf down, 45 

the scale, a feather will, 351 

the scales, a hair will, 351 

the smallest worm will, 463 

the wheel, and, 386 

thy back on heaven, 159 

to serve his, 218 

to thee, I, 155 

to the straight path, 104 

wants but one more evil, 173 

what form of prayer can serve my, 

your eyes, that you could, 355 
Turned fool, as wit, 447 

his back on jewelled hands, has, 321 
it in his glowing hands, 241 
outward, the wrong side may be, 

447 
round, having once, 128 
up in scornful cttrve, thy nose, 304 



Turning his face to the dew-dropping 
south, 444 
o' the tide, even at the, 405 
up, in case of anything, 382 
Turnpikes leading to free thought, 31 
Turns, atheism and religion take their, 
330 
again home, 18 
away, all coldly, 125 
by, give one another ease, 345 
no more his head, 128 
on her god, the sunflower, 393 
none to good, an ill winde, 444 
to a mirth-moving jest, the other, 

196 
to thee, my spirit, 125 
to thought of love, 241 
Turpins and Macaires, real, 325 
Turrets crowned, with spires and, 385 
Turtles from jays, teach him to know, 

™ I9S 

Tutor, own discretion be your, 93 
me from quarrelling, yet thou wilt, 3 2 

Twain, 418 
till out of, 290 

Twal, ayont the, 187 

Twanged off, sharply, 287 

Twanging them, as in, 397 

Tweed, at York, 'tis on the, 284 

Tweedle-dee, 'twixt Tweedle-dum and, 
418 

Tweedle-dum, 418 

Twelve for eighteen pence, offered, 326 
great shocks of sound, with, 284 
good men into a box, 33 
hundred million men are spread, 75 
tongue of midnight hath told, 262 

Twenty days are now, 74 
gals, with full, 363 
men, if you had the strength of, 389 
miles to-day, we must measure, 262 
mortal murders, 90 
of their swords, than, 302 
pounds, annual income, 192 
pounds ought and six, annual ex- 
penditure, 192 
thousand Cornishmen will know the 

reason why, 63 
times, utter the You, 319 
times was Peter feared, 128 
what were good to be done, teach, 

397 
worlds, though mine arm should 

conquer, 61 
years later we have carved it, 275 
years of pining, I 've had, 208 

Twenty-five-cent daguerreotype, the, 
124 

Twenty-nine distinct damnations, 71 

Twenty-three, married, charming, 
_ chaste and, 253 

Twice done salutation to the morn, 57 
ten thousand rivers up, drinks, 101 
to lose it, it don't take, 46 
would'st thou have a serpent sting 
thee, 356 



Index 



737 



Twice-told tale, as tedious as a, 400 
tale, what is so tedious as a, 400 

Twig is bent, just as the, 107 

Twilight and evening bell, 18 
grey, and, 116 
it flooded the crimson, 374 
pilots of the purple, 59 
soft and grey, through the, 429 

Twilight 's last gleaming, 1 7 

Twin, 418 

Twin-brother, Sleep, Death's, 81 

Twine, whose inmost, 100 

Twining subtle fears with hope, 186 

Twinkle with a crystalline delight, 23 

Twinkling in the skies, we see them, 
3§4 

Twins, let the four, 247 
nature and time were, 277 

Twirl my thumbs, I, 284 

of admiration, gave his tail a, 432 

Twist. Lachesis, 380 

Twisted by the sisters three, 127 

Twit him, to call and, 4i3_ 

Twitch, Hudibras gave him a, 36 

Two and two, the sin ye do by, 365 
are twain, they, 418 
blades of grass, 162 
boundless seas, 'twixt, 222 
cardinal virtues, compound of, 315 
bad things in this world, 24 
bosoms, and one troth, 174 
clouds at morning, 56 
distinct looks, at least, 455 
ears of corn. 162 
eternities, peaks of, 222 
eternities, the past, the future, 222 
evils the less, of, 116 
extremes of passion, joy and grief, 

297 
farthings, five sparrows sold for, 320 
forty-five, an easy gait, 186 
hands upon the. breast, 35 
hundred and fifty years of unre- 
quited toil, 199 
hundred more, 95 
hundred pounds a year, 95 
I cannot choose between the, 117 
in one, incorporate, 53 
it calls for, 198 
kinds, knowledge is of, 206 
lads that thought, 411 
makes it, 218 

men ride of a horse, an, 337 
months of every year, no 
mutual hearts, when, 203 
of that, a trick worth, 414 
or three, in the right with, 368 
our fathers deemed it, 139 
paces of the vilest earth., now, 381 
pence for every half -penny, 193 
pleasures for your choosing, 306 
points in the adventure of the diver, 

. 93 ,- 
raging fires meet, 132 
she joined the other. 309 
single gentlemen, like, 150 



Two souls one must bend, of, 378 

souls with but a single thought, 224 

sparrows sold for a farthing, 320 

strings to his bow, he that has, 390 

strings to my bow, I had, 390 

strings unto your bow, to have, 390 

strong men stand face to face, when, 
39i 

tens to a score, more than, 362 

thereby, grows, 218 

tides, betwixt, 222 

to choose, debate which of the, 430 

warm eggs in her nest, she has, 97 

went to pray, 312 
Two-and-seventy jarring sects, 162 

stenches, I counted, 387 
Two-foot trout, and though it be a, 

168 
Two-legged thing, unfeathered, 374 
Twopence, without the oil and the, 349 
Tying her bonnet, 30 

his new shoes, for, 322 
Type, 419 

of evanescence, 115 

of the true elder race, a, 308 
Types of travel, those, 401 

were set, he knew how, 315 
Tyrannous to use it, 151 
Tyranny, 419 

to fight, or, 219 
Tyrant, 419 

and crush the, 385 

of his fields, the little, 168 

reap, let no, 355 
Tyrant 's plea, necessity the, 279 

stroke, past the, 146 
Tyrants, 419 

from policy, 328 

quake to hear, which, 419 

rebellion to, 328 

the argument of, 279 
Tyre, is one with Nineveh and, 139 



U 



Ugliest mask, put on his, 80 
Ugly sights of death, 102 
smutch appears, an, 36 
Ultimum moriens of respectability, 

171 
Umbrella, chance is like an, 46 
Umbrellas, brandy, 44 
Unadorned, adorned the most, but is 

when, 3 
Unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, 

27 

Unbent, with knee to man, 420 
Unbidden, a man can pray, 312 
Unblemished let me live, 124 
Unbloodied beak, the kite soar with, 

41 
Unblown, while yet, 219 
Unborn, 419 
by a village eyes as yet, 275 



738 



Index 



Unbought, for health, 172 
Unbowed, bloody but, 28 

by that pure spirit-level, 115 
Unburied men, carcasses of, 69 
Uncertain, coy and hard to please, 453 

life and sure death, 222 
Uncertainty of it, the glorious, 212 
Uncle an O'Grady, his, 348 

Sam 's web-feet be forgotten, nor 
must, 43 

Toby, cried my, 287 
Unclean, makes civil hands, 54 
Uncofhned and unknown, unknelled, 

85 
Uncomplaining sleep, they all lie in, 21 
Unconfined, let ioy be, 71 
Unconquerable soul, for my, 376 
Uncouple that pinion, 403 
Uncouth, makes ancient good, 281 

not a single accent seems, 210 
Unction, 419 

Uncurtained that repose, angels, 105 
Undecayed, and standest, 115 
Unde filed, 419 

for the undefiled, 247 

well of English, 47 
Underlies, life and death his mercy, 

147 
Underlings, that we are, 127 
Undermanned, meant to founder, we, 

us 
Underpaid, if you think you're, 413 
Underpinning, do n't never tech the, 39 
Understand, and did not, 451 

it, our duty as we, 337 

I cannot, I love, 241 

if I could, 13 s 

the folks they hate, 171 
Understanding instructs me, as my, 
379 

deceived in your narrow, 397 

to direct, the, 173 
Understood, as one that, 433 

be it, 64 

by the savage, that is, 314 

unless their use be, 223 
Undeservers, mart your offices for 

gold to, 294 
Undevout astronomer is mad, an, 14 
Undiscovered before me, lay all, 417 

country, the, 79 
Undisputed, 420 
Undo a man, should, 295 

us, equivocation will, 43 • 
Undone, cannot be, 96 
Undreamed shores, unpathed waters. 

436 
Undulates upon the listening ear, 52 
Undulating air, when on the, 52 
Undutiful, rash and, 20 
Uneasy lies the head, 68 

the soul, 186 
Unenvied, and praised, 385 
Unequal laws for rich and pure, 115 

the contest was, 297 
Unexhausted west, the, 179 



Unexpressed, though it tear thee, 234 
Unexpressive she, the chaste and, 358 
Unfaith can ne'er be equal powers, 

faith and, 241 
Unfaltering, 420 
Unfathomed caves of ocean, the dark, 

149 
Unfeathered two-legged thing a son, 

374 
Unfed, calls us still, 113 
Unfeeling for his own, th', 392 
Unfinished lies, the great design, 79 
Unfit, for a calm, 304 
for all things, 141 
for ladies' love, 20 
Unfledged comrade, new-hatched, 146 
Unfold, the leaves of the judgment 

book, 240 
Unforgiven, could evade if, 467 
Unforgiving, even though, 125 
Unfortunate, 420 
Unfotmd, unquaffed, 232 
Unfriended, melancholy, slow, remote, 

332 
Unfurled that banner's massy fold, 

their flag to April's breeze, 362 
Unfurnished, a head that 's to be let, 5 7 
Ungained, men prize the thing, 318 
Ungalled, the hart, 84 
Ungathered let us leave, to-night, 181 

rose, one sad, 342 
Ungrateful things, coughs are, 64 
Unhand, 420 
Unhanged in England, not three good 

men, 259 
Unhappy, and none could be, 265 

dust thou would'st not save, 76 
Unheeded flew the hours, 406 

thrown a gem, 149 
Unholy tongue, with, 67 

will not own a notion so, 176 
Unhonoured and unsung, 65 

falls, 176 

his relics are laid, cold and, 274 
Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, 

191 
Uniform, 420 
Union, 420 

all your strength is in your, 433 

a soldier of the, 373 

as sweet, and our, 257 

in partition, an, 224 

liberty and, 218 

strong and great, O, 359 
Unite, principles your jarring sects, 

162 
United, 420 

be, let both, 227 
United States, the President of the, 

315 
Uniting, by, we stand, 420 

the whole, 308 
Universal love not smiles around, 43 

peace is near, the time of, 299 
Universe in wine, pledge the, 101 



Index 



739 



Universe, menace to the, 165 
Unjointed chat, bald, 47 
Unjust, is a God, 157 

peace, said that an, 430 
Unkind, 421 

thou art not so, 444 
Unkindest cut of all, 70 
Unkindliness, 421 
Unkindness, 421 
Unknelled, uncofSned and unknown, 

85 
Unknowing hand, this weak, 71 

what he sought, 440 
Unknown, 421 

and behind the dim, 417 

and silent shore, to that, 158 

facts of guilty acts, 99 

from the shore of the great, 15 

lands, to carry me to, 186 

or die, 124 

the forms of things, 308 

the land where sorrow is, 374 

unknelled, uncoffined and, 85 

unknowing, 154 

voice, haply from an, 274 

water, should cross the, 73 

were to her soul, 453 
Unloose, familiar as his garter, 161 
Unloved again, he that can love, 232 
Unmade grave, measure of an, 163 
Unmanly, let them be, 70 
Unmannerly to take you out, 204 
Unmarked of God, not, 177 
Unmarried, pale primroses that die, 

316 
Unmask, nor venture to, 328 
Unmated, here loved and here, 374 
Unrnellowed, his head, 198 
Unmixed with baser matter, 331 
Unnatural, most foul, strange, and, 

272 
Unnoted, and for ever dead, 65 
Unnoticed all his worth, 176 
Unpathed waters, undreamed shores, 

436 
Unpleasant body, a dem'd, damp, 

moist, 28 
Unprofitable, how weary, stale, fiat 

and, 463 
Unprophetic rulers they, 106 
Unquestioned text, one, 155 
Unrelenting hate, Juno 's, 13 
Unremembered acts, little nameless, 

201 
Unrest, a vague, 109 

we have strawed our best to the 
weed's, 113 
Unreturned, if thy love is, 234 
Unreturning brave, over the, 166 
Unrewarded, 421 
Unriddled, our doom, 103 
Unsatisfied longing, the restless, 109 
Unseasonable, it is, 292 
Unseduced by the prize, 120 
Unseen, born to blush, 149 

in the night, 87 



Unsettled humours of the land, 141 
Unshrinking, through the furnace, 9 
Unsought be won, wooed and not, 437 

is better, but given, 240 
Unspotted lily, a most, 225 
Unstained what there they found, 

they have left, 464 
Unsung, unwept, unhonoured, and, 65 
Unsunned snow, as chaste as, 47 
Unsure, what 's to come is still, 239 
Untainted back to thine, 203 
Unthrifts fool their love away, 232 
Untie, gold and silver can yet, 206 
Untimely graves, emblem of, 88 
Untirable and continuate goodness 

160 
Untold, the greatest is, 30 
Untying, the knot there's no, 203 
Unutterable things, looked, 230 
Unveiled her peerless light, 268 
Unwashed artificer, another lean, 13 
Unwearied spirit, and, 145 
Unwelcome news, the first bringer of, 

281 
Unwept, unhonoured and unsung, 65 

unnoted and for ever dead, 6s 
Unwholesome, it is unseasonable and, 
292 

made the air, 43 
Unworthy of Him, as is, 153 

takes, patient merit of the, 323 
Unwounded ear, with, 400 
Unwritten only still belongs to thee, 

the, 46s_ 
Up betimes, is to be, 24 

now, now down, 39 

the game is, 148 
Upheld the truth, by tradition 's force, 

416 
Uphill rather, it would seem, 460 
Upland lawn, the sun upon the, 151 
Uplifting, the light, 2 19 
Upmost round, attains the, 7 
Upper end o' the table, 71 
Upright keel, steadies with, 200 

the politician who is . . . ,310 
Uprightly, live, 376 
Upsees out, drink, 26 
Upset a freight-train of conversation, 

may, 321 
Upward looking, give back the, 461 

still, they must, 281 
Urchin chased, the, 342 
Urge me no more, 139 
Urgest justice, as thou, 199 
Urn, 421 

bubbling and loud-hissing, 116 
Urns, storied, record who rests below, 

410 
Urs, don't strew your pathway with 

those dreadful, 62 
Usance, 421 
Use, 421 

beauty too rich for, 21 

be understood, unless their, 223 

concur to general, 117 



746 



Index 



Use 

doth breed a habit, 167 

had given, powers which God for, 

142 
him as he uses thee, 189 
is of mair, 212 
is the judge, 379 
it, a blessing we should, 69 
it like a giant, to, 151 
me but as your spaniel, 378 
of all the powers, the unfettered, 142 
of anything, a good wit will make, 

301 
of his pronouns, wise in the, 319 
of that which is, 147 
of tobacco, first discovered the, 408 
soiled with all ignoble, 150 
the devil himself with courtesy, 88 
Used is life, time, 407 
Useless, as, if it goes, 190 
heavy load, kings a, 202 
Uses, 421 

of adversity, 3 

of this world, seem to me all the, 463 
produces noble ends and, 284 
Ushers of Beelzebub 's Black Rod, 347 
Using it, he was very shy of, 446 
Usquebae, wi', we '11 face the devil, 19 
Usurer, 421 

Utmost, an, that is veiled, 178 
Utopia is a pleasant place, 383 
Utopian, on the ground that perfection 

is, 302 
Utopianism, 422 
Utter nakedness, not in, 25 

such as words could never, 439 
the thoughts that arise, 35 
the You twenty times, 319 
what I think, I, 402 
Utterance, honesty puts it to, 379 
Uttered cry, she nor swooned nor, 76 
Uttermost, free even to the, 412 
in which both do their, 344 



Vacancies to be obtained, how are, 289 

Vacant chair, to see the, 46 
garments, stuffs out his, 165 
mind, that spoke the, 211 

Vagrom, 422 

Vague unrest, a, 109 

Vain, as wholly wasted, wholly, 170 
because they preach in, 444 
desire, not a moth with, 160 
in, in the sight of the bird, 280 
I only know we loved in, 242 
not a worm is cloven in, 160 
seldom spent in, 105 
shall not have died in, 276 
surely not in, 107 
sweep over thee in, 288 
the king grew, 19 

the labour and the wounds are, 391 
they never sought in, 230 



Vain, thou shalt seek death in, 69" 

thy sorrowe is in, 426 

to mend, too, 46 

torture and trouble in, 230 

to seek him here, 't is in, 355 

tricks that are, 50 

we loved in, 125 

when men swear in, 394 

yet that were, 98 
Vainly aim, all modern nations, no 

his incense soars, 330 

I seek it, 51 
Vale, in this melancholy, 402 

life is a narrow, 222 

of life, sequestered, 68 

of life, what is there in the, 442 

the meanest floweret of the, 293 
Valentine, 422 

Vales, pyramids are pyramids in, 322 
1 'aliant, 422 

as he was, 7 

creatures, breeds very, in 

flea, that 's a, 134 

man and true, 105 

never taste of death but once, 66 

that dares die, he's not, 422 

trencher-man, a very, 414 
Valley, 422 

free, flocks that range the, 305 

of Death, into the, 90 
Valleys, that hills and, 235 
Vallombrosa, that strow the brooks in, 

216 
Valour, 422, 423 

a land of .... 65 

honour for his, 7 

prisoner, takes his, 101 
Value, the rust we, 14 

to me, when praise was of, 312 
Vampire, that greedy, 64 
Vampyrism, 423 
Van, forth in the, 151 
Vane shall point west, the, 279 
Vanish friendships only made in wine, 

146 
Vanished hand, touch of a, 169 
Vanquished, for e'en though, 12 

him, quite, 192 

the demon, and have, 120 
Vantage-ground of truth, standing 

upon the, 415 
Vapour, a, at the best, 219 

is, breath a, 429 

is lost in, 123 

sometime like a, 56 
Vapours, which at evening weep, 10 1 
Variable as the shade, 453 

thy love prove likewise, 268 
Varied workings, its, 33 
Variety, 423 

her infinite, 5 
Various, a man so, 114 

such and so, 397 
Vary, how widely its agencies, 157 

whose naturs never, 323 
Vase, like the, 258 



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741 



Vase, you may shatter the, 258 
Vassal of the Pole, 60 
Vast and middle of the night, the 
dead, 282 

domain his own, such a, 112 

shook hands as over a, 409 
Vault, is left this, 270 

long-drawn aisle and fretted, 10 

the deep damp, 401 
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps 

itself, 7 
Vaults, heaven's ebon, 268 
Vaux, 423 

Veal, like sandwiches of, 204 
Vegetables stored, with, 182 
Veil, 423 

uplifting of a maiden 's, 219 
Veiled, an utmost that is, 178 

from human sight, 154 
Vein, and scorching, 233 
Veins, 423 

better to lose a pint of blood from 
your, 280 

convulse, what ragings must his, 324 

to feed its putrid, 64 
Veneration, which have much, 317 
Vengeance, 423, 424 

the ancestral thirst of, 130 

weary of your prayers for, 433 
Venice, 424 

by the laws of, 134 

no force in. the decrees of, 213 

the rate of usance here with us in, 
421 

there is no power in, 315 

unto the State of, 134 
Venison, fish, wild- fowl, or, 36 
Venom, 424 

of your spleen, you shall digest the, 
382 
Vent, in bad temper oft has, 235 
Ventilates our intellectual fire, speech, 

380 
1 cut itre, 424 

Ventured life an' love an' youth, who, 
19 

like little wanton boys, 153 
Ventures, 424 

lose our, 69 
Venus, 424 

and the moon, examine, 306 
Verb, talk of a noun and a, 3 1 7 
Verbosity, 424 

Verbs, pronouns, interjections, 389 
Verdure weaves, her crown of, 382 
Vere de Vere, Clara, 1 48 
Verge of manhood, to the awful, 143 

of the churchyard mould, 157 
Veriest shrew of all, the, 362 
Vermin, like Priam, food for, 89 

mousing for, 70 

musters, where dirty, 372 
Vermin's, like the, 208 
Verse, 424 

for the other 's sake, make the one, 
335 



Verse 

happy who in his, 162 

Lydian airs married to immortal, 
394 

marred by a superfluous, 109 

or line, to write some earnest, 466 

the subject of all, 180 

to it, adds a, 24 

wisdom married to immortal, 394 

you grave for me, this be the, 163 
Verses, 424 

a book of, 85 

rhyme the rudder is of, 33s 

wits by making, 63 
Very late, that we may call it early, 

211 
Vessel, a large may venture more, 424 

comfort the weaker, 68 

goes, the gilded, 470 

grim and daring, the, 43 

made, that with his hand the, 107 
Vessels passing close to each other, 99 
Vestal 's lot, the blameless, 140 
Veteran, 424 
Veterans reward, how the world its, 

462 
Vex the unhappy dust thou would'st 

not save, 76 
Vexation, I'm sick with mere, 259 
Vibrations, to stop their, 397 
Vicar, a fig for the, 26, 226 

he calls it damnation, our, 226 

still preaches, our, 26 
Vice, 424, 425 

a good old gentlemanly, 15 

but beggary, no, 22 

can plague us worse, is there a, 285 

corruption, wealth, 18 

is often a, 102 

of lying, to this, 244 

prosperity doth best discover, 427 

suppressors of our, 345 
Vices, 425 

we can frame, of our, 170 
Vicissitudes, 425 
Victim bleeds, his, 330 

poor helpless, 419 
Victor glorified, crowns him, 199 

over death and pain, 199 

will be seen no more, world-victor 's, 
356 
Victories, peace hath her, 299 
Victorious, o'er a' the ills o' life, 191 
Victory, 425 

and shouted, 47 

Fremont and, 142 

Westminster Abbey or, 439 

where is thy, 163 

win, they only the, 120 

won, the, 94 
Victuals and drink to me, 187 

one that am nourished by my, 240 
Vie, with the vineyards best produce 

to, 288 
View, climb and seek the mountain, 
46 



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Index 



View, distance lends enchantment to 
the, 93 

presents them to, 49 
Viewless winds, imprisoned in the, 90 
Views, lord in my, 227 
Vigil long, the patient search and, 467 
Vigilant as a cat to steal cream, 45 

be, 435 

in darkness, 70 
Vigour, in its whole constitutional, 299 

lost, repair his, 293 

lost nothing of its, 397 

that their councils might not want, 
82 
Vile a sin, self-love . . . is not so, 356 

ill-favoured faults, 128 

in durance, 103 

matter, book containing such, 30 

means, raise no money by, 267 

seem vile, wisdom and goodness to 
the, 445 

who is here so, 65 
Vilely, doth it not show, 22 
Villa residences at Florence, took, 379 
Village all declared how much he 
knew, 206 

bells, how sweet the sounds of, 52 

bells, soft the music of those, 52 

cock, the early, 5 7 

eyes, by, 275 

Hampden, some, 168 
Villages, in two neighbour, 224 
Villain, 426 

a trusty, 196 

condemns me for a, 61 

far be the, 364 

one murder made a, 272 

thou art a, 356 

with a smiling cheek, 1 1 
Villainous company hath been the 

spoil, 60 
Villains and the sons of darkness, 417 
Villainy, 426 

you teach me, 197 
Vindicate the ways of God to man, 200 
Vindicated, shall my character be, 114 
Vine, 426 

thanksgiving to the, 445 
Vinegar, and twice with, 349 _ 

sugar and saltness agree, oil, 349 
Vineyard, the noblest juices of the, 344 
Vineyard 's best produce, even with 

the, 288 
Vintage, he is trampling out the, 153 

that from his, 333 
Vintners, 426 

Violence, blown with restless, 90 
Violent, so over, 324 
Violet, 426 

perfume on the, 152 

grows, the nodding, 17 
Violets, 426 

that breathes upon a bank of, 273 
Virgil quotes, Homer and, 30 
Virgin kiss, 203 
Virgin's sidelong looks of love, 234 



Virgins, 426 
Virtue, 427 

a land of . . . , 65 

all that are lovers of, 10 

alone outbuilds the pyramids, 322 

alone has majesty in death, 81 

and the conscience of her worth, her, 
45 7 

and vice, no distinction between, 425 

but assumes some mark of, 425 " 

calumny strikes the whitest, 42 

contend, thy blood and, 25 

cousinship and all return, will, 319 

fall, and some by, 365 

foe of peace and law and, 143 

follow, then let, 266 

forbearance ceases to be a, 138 

he did make of necessity, 279 

in living, 377 

in loving, 347 

like necessity, there is no, 279 

linked with one, 64 

may flourish in an old cravat, 171 

men of most renowned, 213 

much, in if, 218 

of necessitee, maken, 279 

of necessity, made, 279 

of necessity, to make a, 279 

of the faith, make, 34 

only is our own, convinced that, 453 

only makes our bliss below, 250 

or mischief, either of, 442 

of your office, by, 401 

should woo the angel, 332 

that make ambition, 125 

suffering from protested bills, 269 

the firste, sone, 411 

then, being rich, 22 

though in rags, 311 

't will be, 414 

unmoved can hear the call, 227 

war is a, 43 2 

we can boast, all the, 85 

when God calls, 227 

worth, what were that intrinsic, 279 
Virtue 's cause it spoke, if bold in, 411 

self, for, 245 

side, lean to, 119 

way, I might desert fair, 429 
Virtues, compound of two cardinal, 
315 

considering her, 62 

died, and when the, in 

do n't wash, the alcoholic, 5 

very kind, be to her, 201 

we crave the austere, 185 

we write in water, 34 
Virtuous, 427 

actions are but born and die, 351 

alway, loke who that is most, 150 

dames, ye high, exalted, 142 
Visage, 427 

dejected 'haviour of the, 448 

of offence, the, 260 

wanned, all his, 307 

with devotion 's, 88 



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743 



Visages do cream and mantle, whose, 
291 

Visible, rather darkness, 72 

Vision, 427, 428 

art thou not, fatal, 70 
of home itself, a, 133 
the young men 's, 98 
whose beauty was my, 274 

Visions of the evening, the fantastic, 
428 
what beauteous, filled this spot, 367 
your young men shall see, 98 

Visit her face too roughly, 243 
is really over, after their, 212 
my sad heart, the ruddy drops that, 

443 
only on a formal, 330 
pays, his ready, 370 
thee never, 69 

Visitor, 'tis some, 261 

Visits, few and far between, like angel, 
9 
short and bright, like angels , 9 
these sad eyes, light that, 443 
to my chamber made, thy nightly, 
283 

Vital, 428 

Vizier himself at the head, 63 

Vocal frame, inventress of the, 45 

Vocation, rode by on his, 11 

Vociferated logic kills me quite, 284 

Vogue, that now are most in, 379 

Voice, 428 
a broken, 307 

a distant, in the darkness, 360 
and clear, and in bold, 419 
and his big manly, 294 
grave did utter forth a, 37 
had murmured, some kind, 116 
haply from an unknown, 274 
hed sech a swing, no, 50 
I heard a, 28 

in my dreaming ear melted away, 98 
in the darkness, 84 
is odd, the people's, 301 
is still for war, my, 430 
London 's, 266 
low and sweet, and a loving woman s, 

235 
of a good woman, the, 452 
of dolorous pitch, with a, 361 
of God, daughter of the, 73 
of God, it is and it is not the, 301 
of Nature cries, 35 
of the morning away, from the, 57 
of the sluggard, 't is the, 371 
of the weeper, the, 326 
only a look and a, 360 
provoke, can honour's, 421 
seasoned with a gracious, 213 
sweet and low, with a, 246 
that is still, sound of a, 169 
the harmony of the world, 212 
till some questioning, 45 1 
to say whose, 274 
with a monarch's, 335 



Voice 

within us, a, 88 

yet must thou hear a, 354 
Voices are lost, their, 339 

from the deep caverns, 163 

keep tune, our, 286 

of four hamlets, 52 

sweet, stone-deaf to, 321 

with her thousand, 154 
Void, cast as rubbish to the, 160 

flame lawless through the, 306 

life is all a, 223 

of pride, sweetness, 128 

they have left an aching, 300 
Volcano 's tongue of flame, 24 
Volley on volley, 42 
Volleyed and thundered, 42 
Volubility, lie with such, 218 
Voluble, so sweet and, 196 
Volume, many a quaint and curious, 
261 

nature of a tragic, 38 

of my brain, the book and, 331 
Volumes in folio, for I am for whole, 
466 

that I prize, 3 1 
Vote, is the freeman's, 144 

my hand and my heart to this, 366 
Votes, an' some on 'em, 11 
Vow, bound by any solemn, 287 

but the plain single, 417 

good-night your, 70 

I never broke a, 436 

renew the broken, 179 

to mend my ways, once again I, 429 

was earthly, my, 157 
Vows, 428, 429 

are traced in sand, thy, 450 

cancel all our, 296 

for thee broke, 157 

I hold to my first-sworn, 339 
Vulcan's stithy, foul as, 141 
Vulgar, by no means, 124 

boil, the, 108 

company, than saved in, 149 



w 



Wade in wealth, what though we, 104 

through slaughter to a throne, 368 
Waft a feather, to, 377 

thy name beyond the sky, 125 
Wafted downward, as a feather is, 282 

smoke, had, 408 
Wafts the mind above, 233 
Wag all, when beards, 261 
Wage it right, how few that, 433 

yet claim his, 248 
Wager, 429 

Wagers, fools for arguments use, 137 
Wages, and what are its, 207 

she gets, in asking her what, 363 

ta'en thy, 103 
Wagging of your tongue, with, 37S 
Wail of the weak, 219 

their loss, sit and, 231 



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Index 



Wailing and alone, blind and, 15 

and whining, long past, 208 
Wainscot, fix on the, 284 
Waist, 429 
Wait, 429 

a little longer, 159 

and there to, 334 

for execution in the morn, that, 333 

for thee I, 242 

like a ghost, to, 451 

like outcast spirits who, 292 

on each, 116 

on virtuous deeds, blessings ever, 
427 

on woman, to, 189 

to labour and to, 2 

the hours are few to, 9 7 
Waited long for thee, I have, 194 
Waiting, 429 

with patience he stands, 262 
Waits thee, go where glory, 153 
Wake again, yet must they, 390 

and call me early, you must, 256 

and never, 369 

and weep, 103 

and when we sleep, when we, 381 

eye which would forget to, 10 

his visage all agrin as at a, 427 

if I should die before I, 370 

not thou the giant, 301 

sleep to, 337 

the life-refining soul of decent wit, 
152 

the world may, 254 
Waked, I, she fled, 98 

I trembling, 98 

to ecstasy the living lyre, 109 

me too soon, you have, 371 
Wakeful, be, 435 

Waken their free nature, shall, 466 
Wakened death, till they have, 400 

thy dog, because he hath, 322 
Wakens at this hour of rest, 23 
Wakes, freedom now so seldom, 143 

with a shriek, 99 
Waking dawned in heaven, and the 
next, 105 

grumble drat that cat, 44 

with day, and, 390 
Wale of auld men, 130 
Walk abroad, a troubled mind drave 
me to, 393 

abroad with Sally, to, 74 

again, breathe and, 293 

alone, to, 239 

and proud of her, 320 

backward, 121 

by the vast calm river, 403 

in fear and dread, 128 

into a well, much too wise to, 446 

sober off, 228 

that costs a meal, and the, 430 

the earth unseen, spiritual creat- 
ures, 381 

the long path with you, I will, 298 

the night, to, 380 



Walk with God, closer, 155 

with you, I will, 41 
Walked before, when she has, 202 

forth to tell his beads, 145 

in paradise, 105 

in that storm, could never have, 
404 

on his way, 145 

the way of nature, he 's, 278 

through life, I have, 177 

when you, 239 
Walks, 430 

along, as he, 210 

o'er the dew of yon high eastward 
hill, 269 

on and turns no more, 128 

the waters, she, 436 

till the first cock, 135 

up and down with me, 165 

with aimless feet, nothing, 160 
Wall, 430 

along the emblazoned, 264 

and crush the, 387 

and the ivied, 419 

flower in the crannied, 135 

had scaled, the rampart, 87 

in the office of a, 112 

its ruined, 367 

of stone, wedged in a thick, 446 

rocks, the blind, 275 

shone on the old oak, 265 

should patch a, 421 

the whitewashed, 29s 

thick, or moated gate, 385 

when icicles hang by the, 190 

whispering by an orchard, 224 
Wallet at his back, a, 407 
Wallets of flesh, 88 
Wallop, gi'es now and then a, 324 
Wallowing in the mire, to her, 378 
Walls, a stone on her, 63 

did I o'er-perch these, 239 

each grave within its, 157 

hangs as mute on Tara's, 170 

high and huge, 262 

I passed beside the reverend, 161 

of this tenement of life, on the, 275 

on the outward, 17 

stone, do not a prison make, 318 
Walnuts and the wine, across the, 396 
Walrus, 430 

Wan, why so pale and, 294 
Wane and perish, shall never, 276 
Wand, or snow-white, 149 
Wander, wherever Cupid might, 240 

where'er I, 113 
Wandered all our ways, when we have, 
406 

east, I've wandered west, I've, 222 

here about the beach I, 352 

idly, my fingers, 291 
Wandering from shop to shop, 361 

moon, the, 268 

near her secret bower, such as, 292 

on a foreign strand, 65 

poet, a, 308 






Index 



745 



Wanders in all lands, Death the 

Ploughman, 79 
Waning, not the crescent moon, 4 
Wanned, all his visage, 307 
Want, 430 

a friend in need, may we never, 285 

but patience of her, and I, 278 

full measure of all your pleasure, 
they, 329 

it, wad eat that, 257 

its man, shall, 248 

of decency is want of sense, 83 

of faith in all, is, 241 

of fighting had grown rusty, for, 26 

of thought, for, 440 

of thought, wrought by, 116 

of it the fellow, and, 465 

of money, it was for, 239 

of towns, for, 252 

that glib and oily art, I, 321 

so many Christians, 188 

wealth or, 150 
Wanted food, pined and, 182 

they gude beef and ale, nor, 267 
Wanting a shirt, ruffles when, 360 

is the brown October, nor, 288 

sensibility, yet, 463 

what is stolen, not, 340 
Wanton boys, like little, 153 

love corrupteth and embaseth it, 
232 
Wantoned with thy breakers, I, 288 
Wantonness, kindles in clothes a, 364 
Wants and its weariness, its, 210 

both hands, that, 190 

but few, their, 68 

but little drink below, man, 249 

but little, man, 249 

but little here below, man, 249 

of a young family, 48 

that sin against the strength of 
youth, 470 
Wapping or the Strand, in, 408 
War, 430-432 

amidst the ranks of, 308 

and a dastard in, 237 

and great in, 43 

and rapine, 143 

circumstance of glorious, 125 

first in, 132 

his comrades of the, 433 

in the ranks of, 271 

let slip the dogs of, 335 

like the impatient steed of, 386 

of unsuccessful or successful, 229 

or come ye in, 299 

power and, 164 

right to go to, no 

the cause of a long ten years', 452 

the hand of, 112 

then was the tug of, 1 64 

the spoils of, 464 

'twixt will and will not, at, 443 

this mighty scourge of, 199 

three years before the, 162 

to offer, 456 



War 

victories no less renowned than, 299 
Warble, 432 

War-cry sever, no more shall the, 212 
Warden hoar, smote the, 87 
Warder of the brain, memory the, 258 
Wardrobe lies, in the, in 
War-drum, 432, 433 
Wards a Roundhead 's pike, now he, 

383 
Warfare, 433 

o'er, soldier rest thy, 373 
Warm at home, thou liest, 189 

champagny old-particular brandy- 
punchy feeling, 129 

dress it up, 64 

enough to, 4 

heart within, and a, 183 

his toes, 207 

my heart, ruddy drops that, 443 

nursing her wrath to keep it, 465 

the air, let out, 393 

virtue . . . will keep me, 311 
Warmed and cooled by the same win- 
ter and summer, 197 

both hands, I, 221 
Warmest feelings wither, when the, 

125 
Warming his five wits, alone and, 292 
Warmly laid, know me safe and, 283 
Warmth, 433 

about to glow, there's a, 225 

no, no cheerfulness, 285 

of its July, the, 331 

that feeds my life, the vital, 443 
Warn, to, to comfort and command, 

Warned is well bewared, once, 205 
Warning, come without, 59 

dreams, echoed in, 99 

give little, 220 

shall thrill thee with its, 115 
Warns me not to do, 61 
Warp, though thou the waters, 24 

us from the living truth, 470 
Warrant, 433 

God 's word 's our, 409 
Warred for Homer, seven cities, 183 
Warrior, 433 

a single, 87 

dead, home they brought her, 76 

storms the fortress, as a, 392 
Warrior's bones are laid, the, 264 
Warriors, 433 

carry the warrior's pall, 271 
War's glorious art, 272 

rattle, where mingles, 83 

red techstone rang true metal, on, 19 
Wars, 433, 434 

and the big, 125 

for my colour, I have the, 301 

of elements, the, 191 

of old, the thousand, 434 
War-sick, at the feet of peace, 300 
Wary, be, watch the time, 392 
Was, not what he, 410 



746 



Index 



Was time, 406 

Wash away your sin, water cannot, 
365 

her guilt away, 136 

it white, to, 1 69 

out a word of it, nor all your tears, 
465 

the alcoholic virtues don't, 5 

the river Rhine, shall henceforth, 58 
Washed away, with drops of rain are, 
252 

in dew, fresh-blown roses, 343 

off the next tide, look to be, 465 

off the stains of powder, 312 

the sow that was, 378 

with dew, morning roses newly, 343 

with morning dew, 398 
Washes it out from the sand, 138 

the bridegroom 's feet, Iscariot, 194 
Washing his hands with invisible soap, 

372 
Washington, 434 

when it gits on to, 60 
Waspish, 434 

when you are, 382 
Wasps instead of bees, where, 330 
Waste, and the tears we, 451 

dawn, through the vast, 18 

its sweetness, and, 149 

men in earnest have no time to, 416 

men's lives, yet, 208 

old ocean 's grey and melancholy, 
288 

that instant they take fire, tapers, 
81 

the years we, 451 
Wasted, 434 

an' dear ones, 299 

far and wide, was, 425 

irrevocable past as wholly, 170 

is existence, time, 407 
Wasteful and ridiculous excess, 152 
Waste-paper, they are the mere, 309 
Wastes her time and me, tell her that, 
343 

the more the marble, 385 
Wasting in despair, 120 
Watch, 434 

above his own, keeping, 417 

an idler is a, 190 

for the constable of the, 422 

for the lightest token, 293 

in the sky, the sentinel stars set 
their, 39 

it more and more, those that, 225 

keep, your loving, 340 

of his wit, winding up the, 447 

out, gobble 'uns '11 get you ef you 
don't, 153 

some must, 84 

the foreman takes out his, 92 

the horologe a double set, 100 

the hour, if we do but, 467 

the night in storms, 189 

the stately ships, did we, 226 

the time, be wary, 392 



Watch 

to, and then to lose, 19 

to, like one that fears robbing, 239 

to keep, 48 

wound up just like a, 173 
Watch-dog 's honest bark, to hear the, 

438 
Watched beside, deaths ye died I have, 
349 

her breathing, we, 36 

o'er the ramparts we, 17 

the battle from afar, I, 433 
Watches, 434 
Watching, for this night's, 362 

them out of the town, 132 
Watchman, 435 
Watchword of progression, change is 

the, 46 
Water, 43 s 

and a crust, with, 235 

and wine, I have drunk your, 349 

both sides the, in 

cannot wash away your sin, 365 

critics and cold, 308 

fast a week with bran and, 312 

hast thou, too much of, 399 

hath, as the, 39 

if that thou throw on, 53 

in a sieve, 64 

in His name, 69 

is in water, as, 56 

like a circle in the, S3 

like a witch's oils, 81 

nectar, the, 197 

oh milk and, 264 

should cross the unknown, 73 

slap-dash into the, 372 

spilt on the ground like, 173 

takes their colours out, until, 5 

tempered with well-boiled, 440 

that is past, with the, 434 

that quencheth thirst, the, 369 

their virtues we write in, 34 

this sorrow, that should, 398 

through a sieve, like, 414 

through hard marble eat, 252 

to float a ship, wherever there is, 37 

unto wine, and as, 268 

were written all in, 428 

whose name was writ in, 274 

with invisible soap in imperceptible, 
372 

you fill up your glasses, if with, 445 
Water-bag, an' a goatskin, 420 
Water-drops, women's weapons, 456 
Waterloo, 435 

the crushed at, 332 
Waterproof the American mind, trying 

to, 8 
Water-rats, there be land-rats and, 
„ 359 
Waters, 436 

be, wide as the, 441 

blue, fades o'er the, 2 

cast, or on the, 441 

forced those, 399 



Index 



747 



Waters 

in mine ears, noise of, 102 
many an evening by the, 226 
of his eyes, those cunning, 426 
once more upon the, 436 
rave, where the scattered, 288 
roar, the booming, 354 
roll, winds rise or, 408 
warp, though thou the, 24 
wind and rocks, the peril of, 359 

Water-thieves and land-thieves, 359 

Wave, a break of the, 269 
a life on the ocean, 288 
amid the crested, 436 
beneath the, 376 
beside the salt-sea, 3 73 
lost in one dark, 228 
may not foam, 113 
of life, the, 36 

of all her waves, there's never a, 113 
over his bier to, 184 
shall start from every, 288 
that star-spangled banner yet, 17 
upon the, 84 

washes, though the succeeding, 138 
will bring, wind or, 149 
write our benefits upon the, 467 

Waved on high, long has it, 1 14 

Waver in my faith, almost mak'st 
me, 378 

Wavered not long, they, 183 

Waves, 436 

Britannia, rule the, 37 
can roll, where, 161 
dark, the tapestry, 317 
o'er every sea, a flag that, 133 
so free as the sons of the, 286 
there 's never a wave of all her, 113 
the standard, but still he, 383 
trusts himself to woman or to, 452 
went high, when the, 304 

Wax, 436 

mingling poetic honey with trade, 

308 
St. Peter's keys in, 347 

Way, 436 

adorns and cheers the, 185 

and Mammon wins his, 270 

and room, must I give, 50 

and wisdom finds the, 443 

being allowed his, 9 

built in such a logical, 46 

comes, something wicked this, 404 

due west, there lies your, 439 

flung magic o'er my, 148 

found thee, a, 140 

good old bishops took a simpler, 416 

he ever trod, from that, 305 

he says darling that goes to my 

heart, 72 
I fly is hell, which, 178 
I knew there was but one, 359 
I'm trudging my weary, 310 
in a mysterious, 154 
in the long, 387 
it should go, in the, 131 



Way 

jingle, jingle, clear the, 23 

jog on, the footpath, 174 

love will find out the, 23 r 

men of action clear the, 225 

of kindness, save in the, 66 

of life, my, 223 

of life, the narrow, 452 

of nature, he 's walked the, 278 

of things happening, in the, 170 

plods his weary, 69 

rises dark o'er the, 228 

shall bear us on our, 48 

takes its, 109 

tenor of their, 68 

that's Stonewall's, 388 

the heaven's wide pathless, 268 

the, he 'd like to do unto you, 82 

the mannikin feels his, 15 

there is a lion in the, 226 

there lies your, 96 

the stream of time doth run, which, 

407 
the wind is, you may see by that 

which, 389 
they heaved those fossils, 141 
through Eden took their solitary, 

462 
through many a weary, 222 
to draw new mischief on, the next, 

271 
to devour the, 345 
to dusty death, 411 
to find that better, 397 
to flutter, bird of time has but a 

little, 406 
to glory, 104 
to go, the right, 159 
to improve the world, the worst, 19 1 
to kill a wife with kindness, 201 
to parish church, plain as, 441 
two lions in the way, 226 
upon the dark benighted, 75 
walked on his, 145 
was one, for the, 220 
were plain, as though the, 198 
Ways are wise and just, his, 357 
by its dirtiest and narrowest, 352 
do lie open, all, 267 
from all the good old, 469 
I keep, the subtle, 368 
in such noble, 124 
I vow to mend my, 429 
of duty he kept, 14s 
of glory, trod the, 140 
of a man, the, 187 
of God, just are the, 200 
of God, justify the, 200 
of God, vindicate the, 200 
of men, and the, 68 
she never followed wicked, 441 
that are dark, for, 50 
their manners and their, 66 
the newest kind of, 367 
thy gentle, 236 
to lengthen our days, 74 



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Index 



Ways to mince it in love, no, 238 
to thrive by dirty, 92 
wandered all our, 406 
watch his devious, 262 
we cannot tell, 154 
when we tire of well-worn, 46 
with little men, to live in narrow, 

Wayward is this foolish love, how, 341 
We, where the Abbey makes us, 1 
Weak, 436 

and weary, while I pondered, 261 

for the fallen and the, 368 

straws, begin it with, 131 

that fall, the, 312 

to be a sinner, too, 43 s 

to defend, the, 173 

wail of the, 219 
Weaker sort of politicians, the, 310 

vessel, comfort the, 68 
Weakest goes to the wall, the, 430 

kind of fruit, 146 

saint upon his knees, 350 
Weakness, 437 

and debility, means of, 357 

a sin, 432 

not strength but, 4 

owning her, 351 

to lament or fear, 65 
Weal or woe, reckless alike of, 328 

prayer for other 's, 125 
Wealth accumulates, where, 300 

and commerce, let, 284 

and fame, beauty, titles, 334 

and fame, out to, 214 

and honour, what are you to love, 
237 

and place, by any means get, 266 

and woe among, in, 215 

boundless his, 65 

find, let no impostor heap, 355 

get place and, 266 

have missed me, health and, 204 

of love, its whole, 1 73 

of Ormus and of Ind, 107 

of seas, the, 464 

of simple beauty and rustic health, 
172 

of thy wit in an instant, show the 
whole, 447 

or want, come, 150 

the loss of, 360 

the other's wanton, 265 

until all the, 199 

vice, corruption, 18 

what though we wade in, 104 

ye find, the, 355 
Wealthy curled darlings of our nation, 

72 
Weans in their bed, are the, 443 
Weapon, a, that comes down as still, 
144 

satire 's my, 350 

stronger, thought 's a, 159 
Weapons, 437 

hurt with the same, 197 



Weapons 

water-drops, women's, 456 

which your hands have found, the, 
403 
Wear, 437 

a lion's hide, thou, 226 

a shirt, he always used to, 361 

it out, as being loth to, 446 

let not the idle, 355 

motley's the only, 137 

my heart upon my sleeve, 371 

not much the worse for, 171 

out, a chaise breaks down but 
doesn't, 46 

the blue, for you I, 456 

this, for my sake, 251 

whether a parson ought to, 295 
Weariness, 437 

its wants and its, 210 

to relieve their, 34s 
Wearing his new doublet, for, 322 

awa', I'm, 215 

out, not linen you're, 226 
Wears a crown, that, 68 

another, 355 

away, eternal matter never, 236 

his crown, now, 356 

it, as he who, 361 

out more apparel, 126 

she to him, so, 454 

the marble, much rain, 252 
Weary, 437 

and faint, 182 

and ill at ease, I was, 291 

and old, which at even was, 442 

and old with service, 153 

and sore, thy feet are, 162 

are at rest, the, 334 

bones, come to lay his, 29 

fa' the women fo'k, 455 

guest, because thou com'st, 12 

head, to the, 21 

I am stiff and, 413 

lover, 33 

of breath, 420 

of the strife, who once were, 370 

of your quarrels, I am, 433 

say I'm, 204 

the, the broken in heart, 61 

to sleep, 39 

to the, death is sweet, 79 

way, plods his, 69 

with toil, 21 
Weasel, like a, 56 

sucks eggs, as a, 257 
Weather being cold, the, 120 

I like the, no 

through pleasant and through 
cloudy, 220 

'tis the hard grey, 113 
Weathercock on a steeple, or a, 285 

if I put a, 279 
Weathered every rack, the ship has, 43 

the storm, the pilot that, 304 
Weave, again at Christmas did we, 52 

I spin, I, 386 



Index 



749 



Weave, the robes ye, 355 

Weaves, her crown of verdure, 3S2 

thy shroud, shuttle flies that, 362 
Weaving, the scarlet cloth of her, 45 1 
Web and the pin, the, 135 

in middle of her, 380 

of our life is of a mingled yarn, 222 

what a tangled, 82 
Web-feet, 437 
Wed, 43 7 

December when they, 457 

it, and think to, 384 

I 've been, 2 1 

none but you, and will, 340 

or cease to woo, 458 
Wedded, 437 

in a day, wooed and, 442 
Wedding, 437 

bed, my grave is like to be my, 254 

never, ever wooing, 458 

night, came forth on her, 55 
Wedding-bells, 437 
Wedding-day, dance barefoot on her, 

10 
Wedding-ring, the, conveys a right to 
one, 129 

your, wears thin, 338 
Wedged, with their souls closely, 446 
Wedges, 437 

of gold, 102 
Wedlock, 438 

. . . hath oft been compared, 253 
Wednesday, he that died o\ 185 
Wee short hour, some, 187 
Weed's unrest, we have strawed our 

best to the, 113 
Weeds, 438 

appear, friends in sable, 448 

clad in a pilgrim 's, 14s 

he who loves, 135 

of prejudice, by the grey, 446 

sprang up like, 450 

spread the compost on the, 60 

that marred the land, in, 355 
Week, argument for a, 196 

of all the days that 's in the, 74 

for eighteen shillings, a, 42 

his text that, 219 

the wicked remnant of the, 247 
Weekly bill, the, 94 
Weeks thegither, fou for, 37 
Weep, 438 

a bramble 's smart, will, 398 

a calm for those who, 333 

and mourn for her, to, 189 

and women must, 132 

and wrestle, vainly we, 155 

and you weep alone, 212 

as make the angels, 251 

away the life of care, and, 81 

awhile if ye are fain, 76 

because they part, 295 

before you, well may the children, 
437 

behind the mask, jesters, 165 

for her, that he should, 307 



Weep 

for him, I, 7 

for the frail that err, 312 

here must I wake and, 103 

in fondness, that, 443 

mourn where thou dost, 125 

no more, lady, 426 

no more, seek it and, 209 

she must, 76 

stricken deer go, 84 

to, like a young wench, 239 

to record, 287 

wherefore should I fast and, 365 

while all around thee, 227 

ye doubting hearts that, 369 
Weeper, the voice of the, 326 
Weeping, 438 

and wringing their hands, 132 

at her darling's grave, be, 164 

at the feet and head, 74 

bitterly, they are, 469 

hermit there, to dwell a, 34 

thou sat'st, 227 

while you 're, 105 
Weeps, 438 

when she sees inflicted on a beast, 
390 
Weigh my eyelids down, thou no 
more wilt, 37 

the enemy, to, 84 
Weighed its relation, till he, 34 
Weighs their wits, and, 30 

upon the heart, which, 263 
Weight, a balance and, 369 

could raise, th' enormous, 84 

falling with soft slumbrous, 370 

if bread or butter wanted, 6 

of a hair will turn the scales, 351 

of carrion flesh, a, 103 

of centuries he leans, bowed by the, 
180 

to drag thee down, 189 

to pull his, .54 
Weights of good and ill, the, 389 

the string that holds those, 403 
Weir, and foaming, 419 
Welcome, 438 

back again, aye be, 249 

each rebuff, 328 

found the warmest, 192 

friend, 221 

grave, to a, 9 

joy and feast, 129 

kisses and, you 'llfind here, 59 

peaceful evening in, 116 

sir, you 're kindly, 246 

the coming, speed the going, 167 

the coming, speed the parting, 167 

the first to, 176 

the hour, whenever you, 125 

'tis given with, 129 

to our shearing, 343 
Welcomed all, served all, 7 1 

by all that cursed, 416 

it too, who once, 125 
Welcomes, now loud as, 52 



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Index 



Well, 439 

all is, 154 

and 'twill all be, 178 

as buckets in a, 39 

attempting to do, 302 

bucket which hung in the, 39 

deep down in the, 446 

does, 24 

done, servant of God, 357 

done, wish a thing to be, 96 

dressed, when he's, 197 

fare him that invented sleep, 369 

he prayeth, 313 

ill will never said, 191 

in the bottom of a, 418 

is worth doing, 96 

it were done quickly, 96 

loved not wisely but too, 242 

made, this parting was, 125 

much too wise to walk into a, 446 

of English undefiled, 47 

of Saint Keyne, has heard of the, 
348 

or ill, calls me, 160 

paid that is well satisfied, 293 

Rachel by the palmy, 120 

read, exceedingly, 326 

the devil was, 87 

'tis not so deep as a, 189 

will again be, 133 

would heal and do, 334 
Well-breakfasted juryman, a good, 

contented, 92 
Well-bred man, sensible and, 4 

witty, virtuous, was, 319 
Well-built nest, leaves the, 17s 
Well-favoured man is the gift of for- 
tune, to be a, 466 
Well-placed words of glozing courtesy, 

459 
Well-remembered grave, at some, 163 
Wells, dropping buckets into empty, 
39 . 

the tintinnabulation that so musi- 
cally, 408 
Well-worn ways, we tire of, 46 
Wench and coming butter, tired, 429 

married in an afternoon, 254 

the cinder, and the white-handed 
lady, 21 

to weep like a young, 239 
Wench's black eye, white, 118 
Wenches, rags and hags and hideous, 

387 
Went agin war an' pillage, thought 
Christ, 431 

and like a storm he, 388 

astray, if weak women, 456 

for it thar and then, and, 104 

into the woods my Master, 457 

to heaven, was exhaled and, 378 

to pieces all at once, it, 303 

to pieces like a lock of hay, 166 

to the garden for parsley, as she, 254 

up a hill, 202 

upward with the flood, 357 



Went where duty seemed to call, they, 

90 
Wept and honoured, praised, 385 

but soon he, 342 

for it, but I, 271 

o'er his wounds, 68 

too much, I have, 208 
Werther, 439 
West, are blowing toward the, 469 

away to the, 132 

country, a well there is in the, 
348 

glitters in the, 109 

great Orion sloping slowly to the, 
291 

is west, east is east and, 391 

I 've wandered east, 222 

that young eagle of the, 106 

the Cincinnatus of the, 434 

there is neither east nor, 391 

there lies your way due, 439 

the unexhausted, 179 

the vane shall point, 279 

trembling on from east to, 143 

which from east to, 408 

young Lochinvar is come out of the, 
229 
Western pine, this spray of, 304 
Westminster, 439 

we thrive at, 292 
Westward look, but, 224 

the course of empire, 109 
Westward-Hot 439 
Wet his whistle, to, 44° 
Wether, 439 
Wethers, 439 
Wets his manly eye, when Douglas, 

398 
Whale, 439 

his fellow-man, to, 171 

like a, 56 

so fitly as to a, 133 
Whales . . . o' the land, 133 
Whatever is, is right, 338 
What's Swat, he knows, 261 

what, he knew, 261 
Wheat, a cake out of the, 41 

all, grind your, 207 

as two grains of, 327 

for this planting, to find the, 276 

mildews the white, 135 

then had sifted the, 276 
Wheel, and turn the, 386 

butterfly upon a, 41 

grate, or a dry, 309 

of labour, slave of the, 207 

the sailor at the, 200 

the sofa round, 116 

turn thy, 141 

wol cause another wheel, 53 
Wheels, 439 

of thought, go the, 403 

run down, and all the, 290 

will nobody block those, 403 
Whelp, a wolf's, 64 
When or where, no matter, 133 



Index 



75i 



Where and when, the, have they 
fixed, 63 

an echo answers, 107 

but, 79 
Wherefore, every why hath a, 441 

for every why he had a, 441 

in the why and the, 441 
Whets his appetite for moral good, 312 
Which is which, at odds with morning, 

282 
Whig, I ain't a, 42 
Whim, agree with his peculiar, 171 
Whims, the women are so full of, 449 
Whine nor sigh, I could not, 233 
Whining, long past wailing and, 208 
Whinny shrills, when her, 253 
Whip, 439 

and put in every honest hand a, 439 

a hangman's, 184 

me such honest knaves, 205 
Whipped, 439 

I would have such a fellow, 379 
Whipping, 440 

Whips and scorns of time, 323 
Whirled for a million sons, 18 
Whirligig of time brings in his revenge, 

407 
Whirlwind chaos of insane hurrahs, 
one, 188 

of passion, 379 

rides in the, 388 
Whirlwind's sway, regardless of the 

sweeping, 470 
Whirlwinds of rebellion, 147 
Whiskey, 440 

Whiskey-devouring Irishman, the, 194 
Whisper, hark, they, 170 

I' your lug, let me, 142 

said as plain as, 69 

this, smile and, 74 
Whispered in heaven, 'twas, 167 
Whispering from the ground, 298 

humbleness, 35 

low, 78 

tongues, but, 412 

to somebody, somebody's, 373 

with thee, the angels are, 9 

with white lips, 136 
Whispers breathing less of earth than 
heaven, 176 

low thou must, when duty, 104 

the o'er-fraught heart, 165 
Whist table, at a, 41s 
Whistle, 440 

back the parrot's call, 350 

her off, I'd, 168 

let the law go, 2r4 

than to a blackbird 't is to, 165 

them back, he could, 145 
Whistled, 440 
Whistles in his sound, pipes and, 294 

o'er the furrowed land, 307 
Whistling, 440 

of a name, with the, 123 
White, affirmed that black was, 66 

amidst the brown, a little, 68 



White and black, dwells in, 3 
and still, all, 152 
as snow, wash it, r69 
as the foamy sea, his locks were, 357 
dress, a black dress or a, 295 
flower of a blameless life, 26 
from that chamber clothed in, 55 
hairs, how ill, 137 
hairs, superfluity comes sooner by, 

393 
horse, an apothecary on a, 11 
lips, whispering with, 136 
man, run from the, 181 
man round the world, the war-drum 

of the, 43 2 
man, the poor, 182 
soldiers in khaki dress, the worn, 

, 37 - 3 , 

the pair that once was, 153 

to keep his milk-teeth, 408 

we called the chess-board, 48 

wench's black eye, 118 

wheat, mildews the, 135 

whose red and, 2 1 
White-handed lady, the cinder wench 

and the, 2 1 
Whiter skin of hers than snow, that, 
367 

than the paper, 169 
Whitest virtue, calumny strikes, 42 
Whitewood, 441 
Whittler, his pocket knife to the 

young, 467 
Whole of it, let me taste, 78 

parts of one stupendous, 297 

table, joy of the, 172 

tree, have robbed the, 115 

uniting the, 308 
Wholesome for the body, is, 269 
Whoop, the Pequot 's ringing, 181 
Why, 441 

man of morals, tell me, 101 
Wicked, 441 

cease from troubling, the, 334 

custom, did not, 140 

far, seemed to me less, 331 

for a smile, too, 371 

this way comes, something, 404 

too, and yet so, 200 
Wickedness, a method in man's, 261 
Wicket, no admittance at this, 345 
Wickliffe, 441 
Wide as a church door, nor so, 189 

as the waters be, 441 

enough to hold both thee and me, 
189 

wide sea, on a, 7 
Widened with the process of the suns, 

Widening, and ever, 337 

Widens, the circle, 53 

Wider than himselve was, 53 

Widow, 441, 442 
and for his, 337 
nor wife, neither maid, 246 
upon her lonely pillow, a, 99 



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Index 



Widower, 442 
Widow-maker, 442 
Widows, 442 
Wife, 442, 443 

Adam and his, 148 

almost damned in a fair, 382 

and babes, a blessing on his, 313 

and children, lodging, 187 

and for the, 89 

and queen, in her as mother, 323 

as an English labourer 's, 208 

a tired horse, a railing, 399 

but life itself, my, 223 

credit in being jolly with a, 198 

here 's to the, 246 

I am married to a, 223 

is, as the husband is, 189 

I 've a, 167 

kissed the fiddler's, 263 

like peevish man and, 376 

neither maid, widow, nor, 246 

niver at all to be gettin' a, iG 

no, prepares the bread, 182 

no casual mistress, but a, 375 

nor maiden, nor, 449 

nor son nor, 341 

should drink of it first, if the, 348 

since you became my own dear, 338 

spare my guiltless, 15 

the book-learned, 30 

the devil 's, was but a fiend, 464 

the mother, daughter, 452 

there is not a, 348 

the sailor 's, the sailor 's star, 347 

when my old, 7 1 

with kindness, kill a, 201 

who preaches in her gown, a, 295 
Wight, a graceless, worthless, 151 

each, who reads not, 458 

she was a, 138 
Wilbur sez he never heerd, Parson, 1 1 
Wild bells, ring out, 23 

by starts 'twas, 133 _ 

in their attire, so withered and so, 
448 

the_ garden was a, 450 

thrill, fresh, 33 

thyme blows, 17 

tremendous Irishman, a, 194 
Wild-cat 's claw, in a, 212 
Wilderness, 443 

a lodge in some vast, 229 

in time's great, 222 

of single instances, the, 214 

one rose of the, 342 

pierce the Barcan, 74 

were paradise enow, 85 
Wild-fowl or venison, 36 

wake, never the, 113 
Wildwood, the deep-tangled, 49 
Wiles, cranks and wanton, 196 

your sports and your, 116 
Will, 443 

a boy's, is the wind 's will, 33 

against heaven's hand or, 387 

against my, 271 



Will ' 

and I laid me down with a, 163 

be done, let thy, 35 

betters always have their, 66 

bow before the awful, 150 

cannot stop them, our, 403 

consents, my poverty but not my 
311 

curb this cruel devil of his, 213 

do 't, if she, 450 

executes a freeman's, 144 

fairly make your, 228 

for if she, 450 

for intellect or, 220 

he that complies against his, 290 

his mysterious, 154 

in shrill ill, 44 

instruments to work his, 389 

I pay thy poverty and not thy, 311 

not obedient to his honest, 454 

of God, as lightning does the, 144 

of God, do the, 207 

or won't, a woman, 450 

puzzles the, 79 

rule, lets her, 452 

sins of, 160 

star of the unconquered, 333 

that in your, 239 

that serveth not another's, 418 

that state 's collected, 385 

the current of a woman 's, 450 

the death defying, 419 

therefore frame the law unto my, 
213 

the torrent of a woman 's, 430 

the unconquerable, 231 

to it, could frame my, 213 

we can arrive to know, if but that, 
389 

who possess opinions and a, 259 

work forth your, 79 
Willie Winkie, 443 
Willing, 443 

able and, to pull his weight, 54 

strong right hand, 48 

to wound, and yet, 71 
Willingly receiving chaff for corn, 103 
Willow, 444 

bends, not a, 145 

under the, 28 
Wills, and talk of, 117 

are gardeners, our, 28 

made to be fashioned as the artist, 
107 

men dying make their, 45° 
Wilt thou answered, the, 290 
Wimmen, men pronounce them, 449 
Win, 444. 

a lady 's faith, learn to. 120 

a woman, if with his tongue he 
cannot, 454 

by it, hope to, 7 

good we oft might, 97 

maiden 's breast, 83 

me, with wagging of your tongue to, 
378 



Index 



753 



Win 

my love, shall, 201 

or lose it all, to, 126 

our battle by its aid, we'll, 159 

right the day must, 337 

that love had been sae ill to, 231 

the heart, to, 33s 

the plaudits, and, 449 

the post, and, 344 

they laugh that, 212 

Wince, let the galled jade, 195 

Winced nor cried aloud, I have not, 28 

Winch, a weathercock with a, 2 79 

Wind, AAA 

a fiery Pegasus, 187 

as large a charter as a, 217 

away, to keep the, 421 

blow, come, wrack, 90 

blows, when the, 154 

blows, which way the, 279 

but a soul goes out on the east, 113 

by measure, God gives, 209 

de col' night rain and, 359 

four changes on the, 52 

grows great with little, 132 

hears him in the, 176 

I go, and like, 435 

in its sails, no steady, 102 

is, which way the, 389 

is in the palm-trees, the, 252 

is southerly, when the, 245 

lay your head well to the, 171 

let her down the, 168 

or wave will bring, 149 

may blow through it, 44 

overhead, when the great, 2 79 

pass by me as the idle, 404 

sweep, nor wild, 113 

that follows fast, and a, 359 

to the shorn lamb, 209 

up the sun and moon, 9 

was cold, the, 436 

Winding up the watch of his wit, 447 

Windmill, with cheese and garlic in a, 
399 

Window, and I a maid at your, 422 
breaks, light through yonder, 225 
the little, where the sun, 330 
tirlin' at the, 443 
you can see from this, 314 

Windows, AAA 

of the east, peered forth the golden, 

393 . 

richly dight, storied, 225 

Wind's will, is the, 33 

Winds and naked woods, of wailing, 
257 
and rocks, the peril of water, 359 
are left behind, and the, 86 
be soft, 233 
blow, may the, 400 
flung to the heedless, 441 
from the ends of opposed, 409 
in the viewless, 90 
of heaven, beteem the, 243 
of the world, declare, 1 1 1 



Wind, rides on the posting, 368 
. rise, or waters roll, where 'er, 408 

sigh, the night, 2 

slowly o'er the lea, 69 

that blew, four-square to all the, 413 

the autumn, rushing, 326 

their revels keep, the, 288 

them up, the Angel of Life, 33 

do blow, and the stormy, 19 
Windy side of the law, keep o' the, 214 
Wine, 444, 44s 

across the walnuts and the, 396 

a jug of, 85 

ambition, fame, 274 

among the nuts and, 396 

and as water unto, 268 

and blushed with, 100 

be as bright, may our, 257 

before I poured the, 194 

comes out of a narrow-mouthed 
bottle as, 383 

give me a bowl of, 42 1 

good, needs no bush, 40 

if I thought it fit to take, 387 

I'll not look for, 99 

I have drunk my share of, 221 

I have drunk your water and, 349 

none to decline your nectared, 152 

of life, friendship 's the, 146 

of life is drawn, 270 

of life is on the lees, 270 

of passion, rage, 324 

old books, old, 290 

only made in, 146 

press the rue for, 402 

rather heat with, 264 

sans, 103 

the universe in, 101 

this skin of, 12 

was dissolved in his, 153 

who drinks hot blood for, 301 

you drink, and if the, 411 
Wing, a cloud, without a breeze, a, 368 

a quill from an angel 's, 301 

and owlet 's, 179 

beats with weary, 340 

dropped from an angel 's, 301 

he asks no angel's, 176 

moults, love's, 233 

one likes the pheasant's, 108 

shook the dewdrop from its, 210 

the dart, to, 106 

to see the human soul take, 376 

to wing, as rolled from, 308 

when she has tired her, 344 
Winged and wandering sound, a, 378 

Cupid painted blind, 69 

the shaft, and, 106 
Wings, and flies with swallow 's, 186 

as on bright, 122 

flying, her white, 436 

of a dove, had I, 97 

of Cherubim, fluttered by the, 52 

of morning, take the, 74 

of night, falls from the, 282 

on eagles', 351 



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Index 



Wings on the blast spread his, 77 

or on wide waving, 386 

o' the mornin', take 'old o' the, 112 

riches make them, 336 

she claps her, 210 

spreads his light, 233 

the feet have, 470 

the soul, that, 257 

to fly, he has, 233 

with love's light, 239 

with trembling, 25 
Wink for ever, so they, 384 

I will, 48 

too soon, he never came a, 331 
Winking, damn his treacherous flat- 
teries without, 259 
Winks, one that nods and, 301 
Wink-tippling cordial, 397 
Winneth, that which the worker, 460 
Winning him back, 443 

how delicious is the, 203 

I surely am not worth the, 458 

one is, 306 
Wins, not art but heart which, 175 

not more than honesty, 64 

the prize, or who, 150 

the race, patience, 302 

the soul, but merit, 260 _ 

the splendid ultimate triumph, 390 
Winsome Ireland, 194 
Winter and summer, by the same, 197 

as humourous as, 161 

bare, age like, 5 

comes in, when, 441 

greens, like, 357 

in 't, no, 32 

long, all the, 343 

my age is as a lusty, 357 

snow, time dissolve the, 233 

spring and summer, for, 20 

time, was leafless all the, 343 

was the flow, and dark as, 225 

weather, age like, 5 

wind, blow thou, 444 
Winter 's eve, the bugbears of a, 401 

fire, a woman's story at a, 389 

flaw, to expel the, 421 

rages, the furious, 103 
Wipe a bloody nose, must often, 323 

away all trivial fond records, I '11, 

the weeds and moss, 163 
Wiped his yellow beard, and, 181 
Wire, others rather resemble copper, 
276 

thou shalt be whipped with, 439 
Wisdom, 445 

and of wit, recess of, 367 

finds the way, and, 443 

glow with, 283 

gravity, profound conceit, of, 291 

married to immortal verse, 394 

is pushed out of life, 84 

of many, the, 320 

quitteth both riches and, 8 

reputation for, 136 



Wise, 446 

and old, the saying, 28 

and salutary neglect, a, 280 

at all, the wisest man who is not, 446 

be not worldly, 463 

but not what, 306 

course to steer, 9 1 

defer not till to-morrow to be, 84 

excel, of all those arts in which the, 
467 

father that knows, 127 

foolery in the, 136 

for cure, the, 172 

I know him passing, 28 

it call, the, 386 

makes the politician, 57 

one, nor ever does a, 202 

only wretched are the, 190 

man, I knew a very, 16 

man knows himself, 137 

men know well enough what mons- 
ters, 255 

men ne'er sit, 231 

men say it is the wisest course, 3 

men 's counters, words are, 459 

nature is always, 277 

not to the, 324 

some people are more nice than, 28 1 

steadfast in the strength of God, 1 79 

the, the good, 334 

the anger of the, 332 

think he is, 137 

'tis folly to be, 190 

to-day, be, 84 

too soon, folly to be, 446 

we grow, so, 137 

who deems himself so, 397 

with speed, be, 137 

young judge, O, 72 
Wiseacres, 446 
Wisely, one that loved not, 242 

worldly, be, 463 
Wise man, the fool to the, 369 
Wiseness fear, let thy, 71 
Wiser being good, it 's, 159 

man, a sadder and a, 346 

sons, no doubt, our, 137 

than a daw, no, 213 

than we, of many far, 236 

to make cages, 't is, 280 
Wisest, 446 

brightest, meanest of mankind, 123 

course, it is the, 3 

course, the desp'rat'st is the, 86 
Wish, 446 

agree, fate and, 15 

for more, can I, 402 

he were here, I, 116 

to come back, think he'll, 168 

the night, now I often, 331 

there was more, she '11, 216 
Wished, what ardently I, 92 
Wishes, 446 

all confined, 68 

blest, by all their country's, 34 

I 've a notion, and, 388 



Index 



755 



Wishes 

never learned to stray, 68 

to feel thy very, 293 

whose, soon as granted, 237 
Wishing, 446 
Wishings, full of good meanings and, 

193 
Wist before I kissed, had I, 231 
Wit, 446, 447 

a good, will make use of anything, 
301 

a man, in, 252 

and leaves off his, 251 

brightens, how the, 231 

can fly, as high as metaphysic, 261 

devise, write pen, 466 

doth dote, when, 136 

for so much room, no, 172 

fire with, 283 

in her attire doth show her, 20 

in them, 'tis, 196 

is out, s 

is stored, where, 297 

it gives, quick as is the, 46 

more hair than, 168 

nor all your piety nor, 465 

no room for, 172 

occasion for his, 196 

of one man, the, 320 

or fortune led, by, 214 

proud of her, 320 

recess of wisdom and of, 367 

still inspires my, 20 

than a foolish, 137 

th' assuming, 397 

the life-refining soul of decent, 152 

the soul of, 36 

to boast his, 304 

to match his learning and his, 329 

too proud for a, 141 

't will pass for, 67 

with little or no, 458 
Witch the world with noble horseman- 
ship, 187 
Witchcraft in your lips, 226 

lies, what a hell of, 398 
Witchcrafts, 448 
Witching wine again, then comes, 444 

time of night, the very, 282 
Witch 's oils, water like a, 81 
Withdrawn, the light, 121 
Wither, an arm would, 10 

every year, some, 179 

her, age cannot, 5 

when the warmest feelings, 125 
Withered, 448 

and shaken, 4 

and strown, lay, 216 

be, it could not, 99 

before they be, 343 
Withering on the ground, now, 250 

on the virgin thorn, 342 
Withers are un wrung, our, 195 

at another's joy, base envy, 114 
Within that passeth show, that, 448 

they that are, 253 



Without, they that are, 253 
Withstood, e'en when he labours, 64 

tyrant of his fields, 168 
Witness my God, I did, 365 

that mourn without a, 271 
Witnesses for God, seed of, 441 

may commit perjury, the, 302 
Wit 's a burthen when it talks too long, 
396 

a feather, 183 
Wits, alone and warming his five, 292 

and a dunce with, 447 

and weighs their, 30 

are sure to madness, great, 245 

but bankrupt quite the, 298 

by making verses, 63 

e'en with losing his, 245 

had been a lord among, 447 

have ever homely, 182 
Witticism, for the sake of a battered. 

321 
Witty fool, better a, 137 

though ne'er so, 364 
Wives, 448 

escape a work so sad, 450 

of yore, ever true as, 468 

the sky changes when they are, 457 
Wiving goes by destiny, 86 
Woe, 448 

among, in wealth and, 215 

and all our, 93 

and melt at others', 174 

awaits the country, 398 

bear about the mockery of, 448 

bliss or, 134 

exhausts the pomp of, 410 

flies from, 370 

is protracted, 221 

nor mercy in her, 142 

of another's, 265 

one common bliss or, 409 

one kindred, 219 

reckless alike of weal or, 328 

silence in love bewrays more, 364 

source of all his pain and, 283 

the canticles of love and, 24 

they do not need your, 329 

to endure life 's sorrow and earth 's. 
242 

to feel another's, 260 

when Eve brought, 449 

where the end is, 159 

with a face full of, 246 

who did begin our, 283 

world of, 105 
Woe's to come, the, 419 
Woes, 448 

cluster, 448 

of want, before I knew the, 430 

perfidious wrongs, immedicable, 467 
Woke and found, I, 104 
Wolf, 449 

on the fold, like a, 14 
Wolf 's whelp, you find it is a, 64 
Wolsey, that once trod, 140 
Wolves, silence, ye, 282 



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Index 



Woman, 449-454 

a poor lone, 230 

an excellent thing in, 428 

an offer of kindness to make to a, 
315 

and song, who loves not wine, 444 

and yet the son of a, 29s 

born, on all of, 59 

but march up to a, 283 

could not shape a husband out of, 
25S 

every, is at heart a rake, 325 

from the mouth of a, 283 

good name in man and, 275 

if a man really loves a, 243 

I forswore, a, 157 

I hate a dumpy, 94 

I love, herself and the, 274 

I 'm glad I am a, 189 

in its train, glorious, 444 

in love with some, 239 

is only a woman, a, 53 

is warm, for, 442 

I will take some savage, 350 

knew what he said, and the old, 326 

labourin', labourin' man an', 208 

lays his hand upon a, 66 

like a porcupine, making a, 304 

like me, to a, 365 

loves her lover, in her first passion, 
232 

make, a perfect, 443 

marry, the men that, 255 

might the lump of salt, as a, 465 

my little, said Mr. Snagsby, 329 

never a fair, 119 

O listless, 33 

one, not a liar, 462 

or an epitaph, believe a, 67 

or suckling, man or, 113 

sat in unwomanly rags, 360 

scorned, nor hell a fury like a, 324 

still gentler sister, 188 

stoops to folly, when lovely, 136 

sung them now, 't was a, 340 

thy name is, 142 

to cry like a, 68 

to play the, 399 

to thee the love of, 354 

to wait on, 189 

wakes to love, 124 

when he loves her, one to show a, 
243 

who deliberates, the, 85 

who did not care, the, 136 

who loved him the best, 132 

will be out, the, 399 

with fair opportunities, a, 25s 

with mine eyes, I could play the, 399 
Womanhood and childhood fleet, 246 
Womankind, much less in, 128 
Womanly, 454 
Woman 's affection, surely a, 3 

anger, like, 9 

dear lip, dew of a, 226 

eye, as a, 118 



Woman 's eyes, lies in, 118 
faith, and woman 's trust, 450 
fair, because a, 120 
heart, a, and its whole wealth, 173 
heart, a stripling for a, 398 
heart, break not, O, 35 
heart gave way, her, 366 
life, one half of, 454 
love, the paths lead to a, 305 
love, 't is brief as, 238 
pride, blush of, 409 
reason, no other but a, 327 
slander is the worst, 368 
story at a winter 's fire, 389 
tear-drop melts, a, 398 
toy, my heart was every, 148 
voice, and a loving, 235 
whole existence, 't is, 232 
will, the current of a, 450 
will, to stem the torrent of a, 450 

Womb, in the wide, 90 
of pia mater, 258 

Wombs have borne bad sons, good, 
374 

Women, 455, 456 

all the men and, 383 

and horses and power and war, 164 

and men, ere we were, 392 

and men, the lives of most, 140 

are angels, wooing, 457 

are apt to love the men, 243 

are so full of whims, the, 449 

are weeping, and they, 132 

comes nateral to, 283 

come out to cut up what remains, 

deeds are men, words are, 459 

false, to make, 122 

I 've seen much finer, 385 

kindness in, 201 

lave what the, 37s 

let us have wine and, 444 

life of so many suffering, 45 1 

men and, 75 

must weep, 132 

o'er fair, 334 

other, cloy the appetites, 5 

pure, all, 150 

spoke, in number more than ever, 
429 

stormy seas and stormy, 389 

sweet is revenge, especially to, 334 

tell their dreams, 99 

worst and best, 259 
Women 's are, sooner lost and worn 
than, 454 

eyes this doctrine, 118 

faces, poor, 119 

looks, were, 118 
Won are done, things, 198 

hailed the wretch who, 362 

her, he wooed and, 277 

I recollect how sailors' rights was, 
347 

is ever, 142 

she is a woman, therefore to be, 453 



Index 



757 



Won, showed how fields were, 68 

the battle he has fought may not be, 
62 

the prize we sought is, 43 

the race is, 208 

was ever woman in this humour, 454 

when the battle 's lost and, 257 

wooed and not unsought be, 457 
Wonder, 456 

it inspires, the, 206 

of an hour, the, 352 

often what the vintners buy, I, 426 

when you and I are dead, 75 

without our special, 56 
Wonderful is Death, how, 81 

is man, how complicate, how, 251 
Wondering eyes, quoth Hodge with, 

326 
Wonders, his, to perform, 154 
Won't, and if she, 450 

a woman will or, 4s o 
Wont, you were, 239 
Wonted fires, live their, 35 
Woo, 456, 457 

and were not made to, 457 

her, and that would, 363 

the angel virtue, should, 332 

wed or cease to, 458 
Wood a cudgel 's of, know what, 20 

bark, and leaves, 308 

cleave the, 207 

till Birnam, 2 5 
Woodcock, 457 

Woodcocks, he cannot live like, 256 
Wooden one, to buy him a, 434 
Woodland, 457 
Woodman, 457 
Wood-notes wild, warble his native, 

432 
Woodpecker, 457 
Woods, 457, 458 

all night, sleeping, 37 

lose thyself in the continuous, 74 

of wailing winds and naked, 257 

or steepy mountain yields, 235 

when wild in, 350 
Wooed and won her, he, 277 

and wedded in a day, 442 

a woman therefore may be, 453 

but when she, 449 

she 's beautiful and therefore to be, 
453 

that would be, 457 

was ever woman in this humour, 454 

we should be, 457 
Wooer, 458 
1! oowg, 458 

light makes fickle troth, 456 

the caress more dazzlingly, 408 

women are angels, 457 
Wool, all cry and no, 395 

and the flax, she seeketh the, 45 1 

of bat, 179 
Woollen, odious, in, 75 
Wooman, he then pronounced her, 
449 



Woos even now the frozen bosom of 

the north, 444 
Word, 458 

action to the, 2 

a, that cowards use, 61 

and every jest but a, 196 

as Mary rose at Jesus', 358 

at every, 52 

at random spoken, many a, 358 

but a choleric, 43 

comes aptest, the harshest, 114 

dropped a tear upon the, 287 

drops some careless, 173 

every, her heart did know, 340 

every, that he speaks, 314 

faithful of thy, 1 24 

for in that, 124 

for it Sammy, take my, 310 

for three farthings, the Latin, 332 

honour, what is in that, 185 

in short, within a, 363 

lion be stirred by too daring a, 226 

love in search of a, 273 

no man relies on, whose, 202 

nor to exchange a peaceful, 229 

not a, 95 

not made for gentlemen, but gents, 
294 

of Caesar might have stood against 
the world, 335 

of fear, there is not a, 78 

of it, wash out a, 465 

of promise, that keep the, 318 

of sorrow, we spoke not a, 313 

one, for ever failed him, 283 

or action brave, asks, 144 

or deed, in fiery, 248 

saved by a single, 434 

shall a light, 146 

should grieve ye, a scornful, 352 

speaks the startling, 88 

take my, 392 

teaching me that, 72 

that shall echo for evermore, 84 

'tis a single, 139 

there is no such, 119 

to a throne, a queen sent, 276 

to listen for the weakest, 293 

to speak one simple, 466 

to the action, 2 

was this, my, 66 

what is honour? — a, 184 

which stands for it, 85 

who never wanted a good, 26 

whose lightest, 380 

with him but a jest, not, 196 

would he utter, not a, 34 

write that, 342 
Word-catcher, 458 
Wordless prayer, to a, 88 
Word's our warrant, God's, 409 
Words, 458, 459 

admit of no defence, immodest, 83 

and such abominable, 317 

and the children's early, 235 

another of the devil's pet, 422 



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Index 



are bonds, 29 

are few, whose, 255 

are like leaves, 379 

are scarce, where, 105 

are the best men, men of few, 259 

are the saddest of tongue or pen, 346 

are things, but, 192 

bewrays more woe than, 364 

breathing these only, 62 

came first, all, 458 

came from his lips, these, 357 

charm agony with, 5 

could never utter, such as, 439 

dooms one to those dreadful, 68 

free ... as I please in, 412 

give sorrow, 165 

I 'm an Englishman, is breathed in, 

47 
in, as fashions, 126 
in pain, breathe their, 105 
in such apt and gracious, 196 
learned by rote, 397 
like perfect music unto noble, 273 
of love then spoken, the, 258 
of Marmion, the last, 47 
of the prayer, it is not the, 313 
of tongue and pen, if of all, 346 
of tongue or pen, of all sad, 346 
poured thick and fast the burning, 

419 
repeats his, 165 
summed in those few brief, 313 
than a parrot, should have fewer, 

29s 
that form of, 62 
that poor Narcissa spoke, 75 
to coin new, 379 
to them whose faith an' truth, wut's, 

19 
trust not in, 227 
were air, she says those, 428 
without thoughts never to heaven 

go, 313 
you mangle his merciful, 365 
you send, I '11 drink the, 466 
you will find the following, 285 
Wore last year, garments which it, 381 
the gown, of old I, 161 
the uniform 'e, 420 
were the gems she, 149 
Work, 459, 460 

again, at his dirty, 353 

and toil for her, to, 189 

a singing with his hand, his, 374 

bad, follers ye ez long 's ye live, 40 

dedicate ourselves to the unfinished, 

27 
do his share in tne, 54 
done thy long, 3 5 
here to the unfinished, 276 
if it be man's, 251 
if this is Christian, 451 
for honest labour, 48 
for man to mend, 172 
her noblest, 211 



Work 

his will, instruments to, 389 

is done, ne'er can say my, 451 

men must, 132 

men that do the world 's rough, 306 

my mind when body's work's ex- 
pired, 21 

needs must love his, 247 

of death was done, the, 76 

of God, the noblest, 183 

of our head and hand, the, 45 1 

so sad, wives escape, 450 

their passage, as they do in ships, 
176 

to do, there must be somewhere, 78 

to its, in the morning gay, 442 

we are in, to finish the, 337 

who 'd shirk his daily, 248 

will continue to, 390 

without complaining, they who, 207 

work, work, 207 

worth, what is all this sweet, 204 
Worked and sung, he, 262 

I have, 221 

thorough, folks thet, 40 
Worker, 460 
Workers, 461 

Worketh with gladness, 451 
Working for, is worth, 222 

in the dismal trench, 40 

out her soul, 54. 

out the beast, 20 

that from her, 307 
Working-day world, this, 37 
Workings, its varied, 33 
Workman, 461 

Work's expired, when body's, 21 
Works, 461 

all the glory of his, 154 

could thrust in among the, 403 

for, loses that it, 183 

from the heart outward, lie which, 

451 ■ , 

may have more wit, for, 447 
of love or enmity fulfill, 381 
World, 461-463 

again, gave his honours to the, 185 

a little foolery governs the, 137 

a marvel and a mystery to the, 255 

and in this, 54 

and nourish all the, 118 

and now a, 38 

and say to all the, 250 

an I had but one penny in the, 301 

any author in the, 118 

anywhere out of the, 244 

are bobbing, to bed the, 386 

around, let it circle the, 152 

assurance, to give the, 250 

away, runs the, 84 

back from a, 443 

back to the, 349 

began, the greatest sailor since our, 

347 
began, their ruins since the, 228 
beside, o'er all the, 65 



Index 



759 



World 

beside, than all the, 182 

bestride the, 58 

brought death into the, 93 

can never fill, the, 300 

Cassius is aweary of the, 15 

chloroformed into a better, 451 

contagion to this, 282 

damnable life in this, 168 

declare, winds of the, 111 

ever the blind, 255 

far less in size, seemed to me this, 
33i 

fired the shot heard round the, 362 

foremost man of all this, 36 

forgetting, the, 140 

from the beginning of the, 253 

give for the discovery, what would 
the, 403 

glory of this, 310 

goes, as this, 183 

goes by, fast and the, 129 

goes up, and the world goes down, 
the, 442 

good deed in a naughty, 42 

good-night, bids the, 96 

grew pale, at which the, 274 

half-brother of the, 8 

has nothing to bestow, 182 

he like the, 370 

he will never march in this, 287 

holds on high, that the, 120 

I 'd leave the, 452 

if all the, 237 

in all this, 128 

in awe, which kept the, 421 

in the face, looks the strong, 410 

in the face, looks the whole, 292 

is a nettle, the, 449 

is full of warfare, the, 433 

is given to lying, how this, 244 

is old, when all the, 290 

is single, nothing in the, 366 

is young, lad, when all the, 469 

kin, makes the whole, 278 

knows nothing of its greatest men, 
259 

lash the rascals naked through the, 
439 

laughs with you, laugh and the, 212 

may sleep, the, 254 

might have stood against the, 335 

miscalls a jail, that which the, 318 

monk who shook the, 267 

murders in this loathsome, 158 

my wife and all the, 223 

necessity, thou mother of the, 279 

no copy, leave the, 21 

o'er, the, 38 

of changeless law, changing, 224 

of happiness their harmony fore- 
tells, 437 

of happy days, a, 99 

of merriment their melody foretells, 

pf pride, a, 316 



World 

of sighs, a, 363 

of solemn thought, what a, 410 

of vile ill-favoured faults, 128 

of waters is our home, the, 436 

of woe, from a, 105 

on his back the burden of the, 180 

over, kissing was clover all the, 240 

over, which wins the wide, 175 

over the roofs of the, 468 

patriarchs of the infant, 334 

prospers, the, n 1 

reckless what I do to spite the, 328 

seek through the, 182 

shake the, 147 

shall see his bones, 15 

sleephath its own, 369 

so fair, picture a, 209 

some for the glories of this, 44 

so with the, 236 

succeed in the, 3 19 

surely is wide enough, this, 189 

syllables govern the, 395 

that nod unto the, 56 

the corrupted current of this, 289 

the exhaustless granary of a, 162 

the federation of the, 433 

the harmony of the, 212 

the imponderables move the, 237 

the judges of the, 188 

the light of the bright, 281 

the pendent, 90 

the prettiest doll in the, 96 

the queen of the, 58 

the vile blows and buffets of the, 328 

the war-drum of the white man 
round the, 43 2 

this little, 112 

this working-day, 37 

three corners of the, 112 

throughout the wondering, 108 

to arms, gold provokes the, 158 

to darkness, leaves the, 69 

toil and trouble in the, 456 

to move the, 413 

too wide, a, 294 

to tell the glory-dazzled, 432 

to the oppressed of all the, 290 

to the throne of the, 339 

to trample the, 449 

turns round, thinks the, 151 

was sad, the, 450 

what I may appear to the, 417 

when Rome falls, the, 57 

who lost Mark Anthony the, 45 2 

with, one to face the, 243 

with noble horsemanship, 187 

worst way to improve the, 191 

would damn itself, the, 198 
Worldling, one rich, 300 
Worldly, 463 

cares, an' warly men, 44 

task hast done, 103 
World 's altar-stairs, the great, 7 

an inn, the, 77 

a stage, all the, 383 



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Index 



World's a theatre, the, 383 

blind greed, censure of the, 165 

book been gilded, for what and for 
whom, 207 

mine oyster, the, 293 

new fashion planted, man in all the, 
3°3 

peace to pray, for this, 366 

release, the gladness of the, 300 

rough work, men that do the, 306 
Worlds, 463 

should conquer twenty, 61 

the crush of, 191 
World-victor 's victor will be seen no 

more, 356 
Worm, 463 

even the, 367 

is cloven in vain, not a, 160 

i' the bud, 298 

I trod upon a, 271 

the, the canker, 223 

the darkness and the, 401 
Worms, 463 

and epitaphs, of, 164 

enfold, gilded tombs do, 410 

of Nile, outvenoms all the, 368 

or grubs, or, 458 
Wormwood, 464 

Worn him to the bones, sharp misery 
had, 264 

sooner lost and, 454 
Worn-out plan, save on some, 179 
Worse, and sometimes a great deal, 
249 

appear the better reason, 122 

for wear, not much the, 171 

I '11 get ten, it's, 329 

in kings than beggars, 122 

make the fault the, 128 

no better and no, 80 

poison to men 's souls, 158 

some better and some, 316 

than a crime, 28 

than death, lest, 94 

than senseless things, you, 27 
Worser place, what, 378 
Worship, 464 

dirty gods, who, 158 

labour is, 208 

the golden calf, 42 
Worshipped a rhyme, who, 308 

God for spite, as if they, 302 
Worshippers, dies among his, 415 
Worships what it spurned, and, 255 
Worst, 464 

and best, the greatest, 147 

can't end_, 159 

enemy, his own, 249 

for sudden the, 78 

I 've known the, 328 

of all, death was not the, 90 

of madmen is a saint, 245 

one, the first and, 2 1 

sure rivals are the, 339 

to-morrow do thy, 408 

treason has done his, 223 



Worst 

where the best is lite the, 392 

who has known the tempest's, 328 
Worsted, though right were, 337 
Worth, 465 

a dump, game was n't, 77 

a fight, wut is, 212 

a hundred years of life, 39 

and the conscience of her, 457 

a thousand men, 39 

doing, what is, 96 

in anything, what is, 266 

in woman overtrusting, to, 452 

living, is life, 219 

living, the life that is, 222 

more than anything, 357 

no worse a place, 315 

on foot, showed, 417 

something, a man's, 130 

that sense and, 38 

the search, they are not, 327 

the silence of the heart, 172 

the wooing, if I am not, 458 

to try its, 377 

unnoticed all his, 176 

whatever be their rank or, 201 

working for, is, 222 
Worthier cause, a, 144 

of regard and stronger, 58 

would it were, 465 
Worthless gold, gives only the, 7 

wight, a graceless, 151 
Worthy to be filed, on Fame 's eternal 

beadroll, 47 
Would and we would not, we, 443 

be, it's there that I, 392 

not, durst not play, 306 

not what we, 229 

wait upon I, 45 
Would-be wits and can't-be gentle- 
men, 150 
Wound a heart that's broken, 358 

goot for your green, 216 

helped to plant the, 106 

itself, help to, 112 

that never felt a, 351 

the grief of a, 184 

the heart doth, 166 

the old, if stricken is the sorest, 290 

up just like a watch, 173 

willing to, 71 

with a touch, 350 
Wounded and left on Afghanistan's 
plains, 373 

hymn of the, 61 

snake, like a, 6 

to die, 39 
Wounds before, hurts honour than 
deep, 36 

bind up my, 187 

green, keeps his own, 334 

I might have healed, 116 

me with the flatteries, 134 

the labour and the, 391 

to bind up the nation's, 337 

wept o'er his, 68 



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Woven a golden mesh, 168 
Wrack, blow, wind! come, 90 

him, cross him and, 294 
Wrangles and dissensions, of your, 433 
Wrapped about the bones, thy roots 

are, 468 
Wraps the drapery of his couch, one 

who, 227 
Wrath, 465 

and despair in the jolly black-jack, 
26 

appeased, the Eternal's, 301 

can send, thy, 145 

destroy, not in after, 107 

execute thy, 15 

infinite, 177 

tears and anarchy, 143 

than the strong man in his, 413 

the dragon and his, 98 

the grapes of, 153 
Wrathfully, but not, 201 
Wreath, a, a rank, 462 

I covet not, a, 104 

I sent thee late a rosie, 97 

I took the, 100 

of roses, she wore a, 343 

you lay a, 225 
Wreathe your arms, to, 239 
Wreaths entwine, and laurel, 304 
Wreck, 465 

may sink with a shot-torn, 133 

out of his, 140 
Wrecked, 465 

on shore, more have been, 354 
Wrecks, a thousand fearful, 102 

if rising on its, 170 

of matter, the, 191 
Wrens make prey where eagles, 106 
Wrest once the law to your authority, 

213 
Wrestle, vainly we weep and, 155 
Wrestled, 465 
Wretch, cast o'er hardened, 127 

concentred all in self, 65 

condemned with life to part, 183 

excellent, 239 

is a, 66 

to haud the, 184 

to treat a poor, 360 

who can number his kisses, 205 

who long has tossed, 293 

who won, hailed the, 362 
Wretched, 465 

he forsakes, the, 370 

the only, 190 
Wretchedness, and leave me here in, 
381 

and pain, but, 76 
Wretch's aid, for some, 216 
Wretches betray, so many of the little, 
176 

hang, and, 92 

have o'ernight, as, 333 
Wring from the hard hands, than to, 
_ 267 

his bosom, and, 136 



Wring the brow, pain and anguish, 

453 
Wringing their hands, are weeping 

and, 132 
Wrinkled, because his forehead is, 309 
Wrinkles, 465 

come, let old, 264 

on thine azure brow, writes no, 
406 

time got his, 78 
Wrist, gave a thumb to his, 311 
Writ, 465 

in water, whose name was, 274 

o' both sides the leaf, 336 

of little Nell, had, 280 

the fair hand that, 169 
Write, 466 

and cipher too, he could, 206 

and read, 2 

a novel, some play the devil and 
then, 285 

any man that can, 216 

anything wise, you '11 never, 445 

converse, and live with ease, 107 

he who would, 67 

in rhyme, those that, 335 

me down an ass, 13 

of me, not, 109 

on your door, 28 

our benefits upon the wave, 467 

sorrow on the bosom, 164 

speak, preach, for this, 123 

than the pen may, 174 

that word, 342 

the characters in dust, 450 

the thing he will, 221 

touch a pen to, 308 
Writes no wrinkles on thine azure 
brow, 406 

the moving finger, 465 
Writhe, lips taught to, 233 
Writhes in pain, error wounded, 415 
Writhing o'er its task, Grief was, 165 
Writing, 466, 467 

and 'rithmetic, reading, 187 

an exact man, and, 326 
Written all in water, those vows were, 
428 

down, though it be not, 13 

o'er again, erased nor, 465 

then may my epitaph be, 114 

whatever hath been, 465 
Wrong, 467 

a Christian, if a Jew, 197 

always in the, 114 

chafe as at a personal, 161 

do a little, 213 

for ever on the throne, 417 

his can't be, 120 

how easily things go, 203 

in some nice tenets might be, 120 

I smiled, if, 67 

may gang a kennin, 188 

no captain can do, 360 

no other reason for this, 287 

our country, right or, 65 



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Wrong 

peace unweaponed conquers every, 
300 

rules the land, 417 

side may be turned outward, 447 

side out, egotism, 11 

's most oilers, 245 

sow by the ear, he has the, 378 

that pains my soul below, 160 

the multitude is always in the, 271 

the oppressor's, 323 

the sense of, 419 

the side that seems, 337 

the t'other wuns prayed, 314 

things have long been, 422 

though easy, 159 

to right, so Ion;- as there is, 219 

to undo the plainest, 54 

us, if you, 197 

who had done the, 140 

would triumph, 337 

you're doing, read you not the, 458 
Wronged and the weak to defend, 173 
Wrongs, 467 

but when I think on all my, 423 
Wrote down for men, as he, 418 

it, who, 358 
Wroth with one we love, to be, 412 
Wrought a murder in a dream, I, 272 

are those which heaven itself has, 
403 

for her, 416 

of such stuffs as dreams are, 428 

that night at Bunker 's Hill well he, 
40 



Xerxes, 467 



Yankee, 467 

Yard are full of seamen 's graves, the 
church and, 355 

below their mines, one, no 

locked in yard, 347 
Yarn, web of our life is of a mingled, 

222 
Yawn, when churchyards, 282 
Yawns before our eyes, 178 
Yawp, 468 

Yea and nay, her pretty oath by, 306 
Year 468 

after year the same absurd mistakes, 
265 

carved for many a, 252 

for Christmas comes but once a, 52 

he that dies this, 91 

I 've a hundred pounds a, 61 

like two months of every, no 

memory may outlive his life half a, 
258 

moments make the, 414 

passing rich with forty pounds a, 
336 

some wither every, 379 

that flourish all the, 357 



Year 

then mourn a, 448 

the saddest of the, 257 

this, a reservoir, 248 

three hundred pounds a, 128 

together, taking the, 393 

two hundred pounds a, 95 

were past, would heaven this 
_mourning, 464 
Yearning back of the praying, the, 313 

like the first fierce impulse, 66 
Yearnings, strivings, longings, 156 
Yearns with the fondness of a dove, 

173 
Year 's pleasant king, spring is the, 382 
Years, a few more, 222 

and nature sink in, 191 

are fleet, our, 79 

are o'er when long, long, 409 

beyond our ken, for, 138 

but not with, 168 

but young, his, 198 

increased with, 224 

it may be for, 116 

man of wisdom is the man of, 445 

of God are hers, the eternal, 415 

outweighs of stupid starers, whole. 
,.355 

pedigree traced to earth 's earliest, 
300 

reckon their age by, 398 

rise with other, 330 

the flight of, 75 

they served, for, 414 

to sever for, 296 

we live in deeds not, 227 

we waste, the, 451 
Yeast, some swallowed in the, 35 
Yell upon yell, 42 
Yellow, bright and, 157 



leaf, falls into the,_ 223 
leaf, my days are in the 



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leaf, the sear, the, 223 

of two hard-boiled eggs, the, 349 

primrose was to him, 316 

sands, come unto these, 349 

to the jaundiced eye, 195 
Yellows, like a peach that 's got the, 

256 
Yeoman 's service, now it did me, 466 
Yes. 468 

mebby to mean, 283 

when she says, 363 
Yesterday, 468 

all our pomp of, 139 _ 

the word of Cssar might, 335 

you were, to-day what, 411 
Yesterday 's have lighted fools, all our, 
411 

seven thousand years, with, 411 

sneer and yesterday's frown, 442 
Yesterdays, 468 

seems of cheerful, 48 
Yester-year, 468 

Yestreen, I saw the new moon late, 
267 



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Yew, 468 

Yew-tree's shade, that, 108 

Yield, and not to, 146 

a step for death or life, 43 1 

even gods must, 330 

me but a common grave, 163 

never to submit or, 231 

their juices, 175 

up, which I must not, 422 

when you must, only, 58 

where thou would'st only faint and, 
198 
Yielded to the first that sought her, 
has, 428 

with coy submission, 391 
Yields, for which no rhyme our lan- 
guage, 389 

his breath, when the good man, 159 

to men the helm, nor, 86 
Yoked with a lamb, you are, 209 
Yonder cloud, do you see, 56 
Yore, of the saintly days of, 325 

some life outlived of, 315 
Yorick, 468 

York, at, 'tis on the Tweed, 284 
You and I are dead, when, 75 

shall be you no more, when, 411 

twenty times, utter the, 319 

were you, to prove that, 320 
Young, 468, 469 

a body, knew so. 171 

all the world and love were, 237 

and old come forth to play, 71 

and old, let, 150 

as beautiful, 20 

best married that dies married, 254 

but his heart is, 173 

eagle of the West, 106 

ever fair and, 16 

family, the wants of a, 48 

his years but, 198 

idea how to shoot, to teach the, 398 

lassie, what can a, 211 

man following it, 180 

man married is a man that 's marred, 
254 

man's fancy, a, 241 

man's heart, tied a, 30 

men shall see visions, your, 98 

men's vision, the, 98 

or old, of all the living, 228 

shall peck at the shells elate, 97 

spurned by the, 157 

to marry yet, I 'm o 'er, 254 

well, he died, 151 

when music, heavenly maid, was, 
272 

when we were, 74 

withoivt lovers, 462 

you loved when all was, 290 
Younger, 469 

brother, though the, 216 

man, I '11 do the service of a, 357 

spirits, the snuff of, 228 
Youngest, when your, 144 
Vours is mine, and what is, 263 



Yourself, 469 
Youth, 469, 470 

a, to fortune and to fame unknown, 
257 

and ease, they whom, 105 

and home and that sweet time, 23 

and love, a kiss of, 204 

and observation copied there, 331 

and pleasure meet, 71 

an eagle mewing her mighty, 277 

crabbed age and, 5 

delight, gives his, 49 

fades, time fleets, 221 

for in my, 357 

home-keeping, 182 

how he was instructed in his, 416 

in, it sheltered me, 457 

in immortal, 191 

in the lexicon of, 119 

is full of pleasance, 5 

is vain, 412 

it is sunny, 4 

like summer brave, 5 

lost Atlantis of our, 14 

love-exalted, 65 

manhood, old age past, 155 

many a, 7 1 

not clean past your, 5 

now green in, 250 

of England are on fire, 1 1 1 

of frolics, a, 462 

of nations, the ingenious, 135 

of the realm, corrupted the, 317 

over, who can live, 33 

replies I can, the, 104 

stirred our hearts in, 88 

sublime, nourishing a, 352 

the aspiring, 123 

the temple of my, 269 

the thoughts of, 33 

they had been friends in, 412 

ventered life an' love an', 19 

with his sorrow and sin, murders 
our, 406 
Youth 's a stuff will not endure, 239 

bright locks, o'er, 354 
Yule, 470 

is cold, when, 132 



Zaccheus 470 

Zeal be had, may too much, 245 

but served my God with half the, 
357 

showed their fierce, 144 

than knowledge, with more, 279 
Zealots fight, let graceless, 120 
Zembla, there at Greenland, 284 
Zenith, dropped from the, 122 
Zephyr blows, soft the, 470 
Zimri stand, did, 114 
Zone, its gentle odours over either, 408 

the pole or the, 112 

to zone, he who from, 387 



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